... East if we mind our own business and keep within our frontiers. The number is enriched also with a complete story by Mr. Thomas Hardy, and an ode to the wind by Mr. Swinburne. ...

... The Silence of Dean Maitland,` has had a mixed reception. Some warm critics have likened it to George Eliot and others to Thomas Hardy, while less favourable judges ridicule it - unmercifuLly. W e think it a mass of plagiarisms -probably quite unintenti ...

... MR. COMYNS CARR'S dramatised version of Far From the Madding Crowd was produced with the authority of the author, Mr. Thomas Hardy, at the PRINCE OF WALES'S Theatre, Liverpool, on Monday evening. The new piece, which is described as a ...

... forthconingg season the following new novels I -CSiysto~vell: a Dartmoor Tale, by It. Dl, Until_ . o A Laodiocan, by Thomas Hardy; Wait- I ;ug, ?? A. M. Hopkinson; Den John, by Miss Jean IVgeo. Warlock of Warlock, by George I acdonalgo 'Ceoily's ...

... nelses in with a short and licoly tale of Love A la itiodo. lbhe Dorsetsbire Labourer is a wvell written sketch by Mr. Thomas Hardy; and the first part of Across the Plains contains some interesting leaves from the notebook of an emigrant between ...

... Hildebrand and the Princess Ida. By Major T. S. Leccombe ?? ?? ?? (Thomas De la Rue and Co.) 6 o The Sunday Magazine for ?? ?? (Isbister and Co.) 7 6 The Trumpet Major. Three vols. By Thomas Hardy. (Smith, Elder, and Co.) 31 6 Trade, Population, and Food. A ...

... MAITLAND. * Tad first few pages of this novel made us think-we venture to say they will make most readers think-that Mv. Thomas Hardy, with his stories of rural life, had found a serious rival. Chalkbourne Hill on. an autumn afternoon, with the waggons ...

... with Anne Garland's preference will be the least satisfied with the portrait of the true soldier and gentleman wshich Mr. Thomas Hardy has given us in the person of John Loue!at, Trumpet Major of the -th Dragoons. Perhaps there is some uncomfortable truth ...

... Kafye- rine for the coming, year include a series of papers on. the peasantry of various parts of the United 1iug- dons. Mr. Thomas Hardy is to do the florsetehire Labourer, Mrs. (ilipheast the Skye C'rofter, and Mr. Justin ?? the Irish Cottier.-Mr. Stanley ...

... The book will contain. an original etching of Charles It., and ten other historical portraits. It is dedicated to Mr. Thomas Hardy. The Duke of Norfolk is beginning the restoration of the ancient choir at Arundol gene- rally called the FitzAlan Chapel ...

... best sort of all, just touched with sufficient pathos now and then. Wessex Tales: Strange, Lively, and Commonplace, by Thomas Hardy (2 vols.: Macmillan and Co.), is a title which con- tains a criticism, and one to which we must take a good deal of exception ...

... -(London : Isbister and Co., 56, Ludgate-hill, E.C.) -We hazard the opinion that the serial story, The Trumpet Major, by Thomas Hardy. which is continued in the Novem- ber part of this magazine, is one of the best works produced by the talented author of ...