... Mehalis, Dora Ru~sell, Joseph Hatton, Adeline Sargeant. Jessie fFothergill, Hall Caine, W. E. Norris, G. A. Henty, i. Thomas Hardy, and the author 'of Molly Bawn. It e will be observed that four out of the ten are women. Mr Ruskin has given his consent ...

... of Andrew LWng The short tales in this number are of unusual oxcellence, amongst the number being one Con- 'tributed by Thomas Hardy, and entitlhed The First Countess ofWessex.' Amnong- 1,o poetical pieces is oe by li. D.- Blaokn' re, entitled Bu cn4b ...

... note-book and elaborated, perhaps months afterwards. Amongst other novelists sketched in these in. teresting papers are Thomas Hardy, Walter lLesant, James Payn, Rider Haggard, 11. L, Stevenson, George Macdonald, and f George Meredith. Speaking of the ...

... (LOn~don: Lougmane, Green, & Co.) has a good instalment of James Payn's new novel, Thicker than Water, a good story by Thomas H~ardy, entitled The Three Strsagers, and an amusing sketch by Charles Harvey, entitled 4A. Cabal aet the Theatre Fraucais ...

... There are two good papers on provincial th hlife-the one by Mr C. Kegan Paul on The Rustic wi s, of George Eliot and Thomas Hardy, and the other lai di by Mrs Loftie on Dulness. An amusing-novelette qu 5s byMiss Alice Corkran,entitled Miss Martha's ...

... now been so long ,h cnncted. The stories he has secured promise a well, and the inames of their respeebive authors, 'e Thomas Hardy and Jean Ingelow, are sufficient r guarantee for their merit. The Trumpet-Major n opens in an exceedingly happy manner; ...

... cigar. Mr Anthony Trollope. too, -gives his testimony in favour of the weed, having been C, a smoker all his life. 7i1 Thomas Hardy neversmoked C a pipeful in his life, and never found alcohol helpfulin a , novel writing. Mr James Payn is a constant smoker ...

... pleasantly under the title of Our Oldest Colony. The rest of this excellent number is occupied by a further instalment of Mr Thomas Hardy's serial story and The Lament for Bion. ...

... Miss Singer, MIrs Strachan, Mrs Gordon, Mti'S Urquiart, Miss AL C. Bruce, Miss H. .J. Hardie, aMiss Ailar. dyce, Mrs Baxter, -Mrs Cirassick, Mhls Annie P. Hardie, Miss Matheson, Mis K. CGrassick, Airs Wriyht, Mliss Macrae, Miss A'nes IMacrae, Mrs Taylor ...

... 1Hollyhocks-1 anrl 2 Thoma 1 Middleton. G(ladiolus-I Thomas Middleton, '2 l'obert M'Donald. Siurle sweetwilliatnm-Thomas 2 Mliddleton. Verbenai-1 and 2 ThOs. Middlcton. J Penstemons-Thomas Middleton. French mari- I golds, striped-1 Thomas ...

... failure of the intellect ual mechanism as an iuseparable accompaniment of its general efficiency. The only fault of Mr, Thomas Hardy's stoiy en- titled Fellow.Townsmene is its vague and un- satisfactory conclusion. Considering the fact that first the ...

... some capital figur6 subjeets in eel, last eentury costumes Mr J. Frraser Taylor, with a in i' distintly F rench. style; Mr Thomas Scott, and Mr i;- James Douglas, whose works add strengtfi and in- ted terst to time vater-colour room I and Mr 1. 1'. Reid ...