... because they aim too high. A public that a devours tens of vthousands;of a new novel by George Eliot or William -Black, or Thomas Hardy, shows' its capacity to rise to the level of the a most fastidious of the Boston penmen. There is a rude, sentimental multitude ...

... nerves, thoroutlhly tired out. Bitt that is not, per- your haps. Unusuia among writersituaginativeir otherwise. if he Mr Thomas Hardy lived for soume years at, Upper :has Toouting, and hasi now settled down at Mlax Gate, near Dorchester, spendigii hit vacations ...

... again adjournedi. b a' (I -__ ______ rei Is ELECTION INTELLIGENCE, fae ii aPI 0 LxANCSHIRE lBcx'ro.Nl.-Mr Gerald Hardy, son of Sol Sir Thomas Hardy, who contesated thle division thin nagainst Sir Arthur Bass last year, wvas yesterday as it selected as Conservative ...

... plot of *aia- bow Gold is now tolerably Well developed. The painting of country life and character is of tcn worthy of Thomas Hardy: in- deed, many passages remind us not a little of Far from the iadding Crowd, while the t lvigour and directness of ...

... -In a Winter City, Under Two Flags, one not suffic- ing, while Annie Thomas wrote On Guard.' Jules I :eVerne chose to write Five Weeks in a Balloon, r, Thomas Hardy Under the Greenwod Tree, . is Besant and Rice- By Celia's Arbor, and I ...

... Pte. G. H. Smythe, Aboyne, £1 3 ) il Pte. John MUflardy, Strichen, £1 32 7 Capt. L. S. Sitlh, Montrose, £1 32 Thomas Hardy, Inverness, £1 32 Sgt. 1). Maclenman, Inverness, £1I . 32 Lieut. Crnickshhmk, Turriff, £1X . 32 Pte. WV. M-Kenzia, ...

... Morrell; Captains Vincent Budd, t J. J. Holdsworth, Thomas Porteous, R. H. Ivey, , Wilson, Jamieson, and Thomas Tribe (Secretary Royal ai Alfred Azed Merchant Seamen's Institution); Messrs.. Scott, Thomas Balding (Secretary Sailors' Rome), d Alfred Eames ...

... Anderson, his sons; Mrs M'Hardy, 'his daughter ; Major M'Hardy, if secrtary to the-Scotch Prisons Commissioners,; son- v in-laWr; Mfr Irvine Kempt of the Caledonian o Railway, his step-brother ; Miss M'Hardy and Miss Marjory M'Hardy, granddaughters ; Mr eAlex ...

... 51I'Grigor; aick visitors, Brothers Thomas bavidson. James Collie, and George Gilmoir: trustees, Brothers Thomas David- -ion, Alexander Shand, and Alexander Mitchell. Medical officers, Drs George Cran and James 31'Hardy. FRASERBRG1-SALE Or Sr1',v.E-On Saturdav ...

... being the lion. Alfred Erekine Gatborno ..Hardy and Robert Peter Laurie, Coeealt e Char'es Edwards, Liberal; and Henry Alexander Munra But'ee-Johnstone, Independent. The d result of the poll was as follows:- L8 Hardy, 1467 ; Laurie, 1425; Edwards, 1294 ; ...

... EBsq. (Swan- sea) ; T. H. Thomas, Esq. (Cardiff); A. Claude Taylor, Esq. (Nottingham) ; William Hunt, Esq. (Bristol); Thomas Hick, Esq.. B.Sc. (Harrogate); NV. Howard Stables, Esq. (Horsforth) ; Professor Aitken (Netley); Thomas Lester, Esq. (Barnsley) ...

... handicapped 4 feet, 86 feet 9 inches; 2 J. M'Hardy, Glenlivet, 79 feet 2 inches; 3 G. Bowie, 79 feet 1 inch. Light hammer-I G. Bowie, i1i feet; 2 G. Davidson, handicapped 8 feet, 110 feet 4 inches; 3 J. M'Hardy, 100 feetl1 inches. Strathspey reels and marches ...