... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... poetry, hygiene, art, and theatrical description, all find a place in this months part. James Payn, Richard Jeff ries, and Thomas Hardy tire in the light department; Jean Ingelow and E. W. (IGsse figure in the poeticel domain; Dr. Richardson has bad hia ...

... 3Igeaaine for the coming year include a series of papers on the peasantry of various parts oz the United King- dom. Mr. Thomas Hardy is to do the Dorsetsh1ive Laeborer, Mris. Oliphant the Skye Croftier, and Mir. Justin M'Carthy the Irish Cottier. Mr. Statley ...

... failures. Xacmillan's Magaazine (London: Macmillan and Co.) presents us with the conclusion of the serial story by Mr. Thomas Hardy, entitled The Woodlanders, which has been so well sustained, and has now been published in another form. The number opens ...

... of the application to the stage, by unatuthorised P hbands, of the incidents of their invention. Some ryears ages Mr. Thomas Hardy, then unknown, devisedeand executed a work which brought its author much distinction. Dramnatic- in narration, 6testory ...

... ART AND LITERARY GOSSIP. [PROBs TO-DAY'S ATEENJEUB.] Mr. Thomas Hardy is writing a story for Araminillan's MAlqaziiie. Prof. Arber proposes, in connection with his important Transcript of the Raeisters of the Company of Stationers of London, to add ...

... forming easy- ge chair bookus of the best order. The serial rJ story eatitled The Woodlanders, fron the ] pen of Mr. Thomas Hardy, is continued through several other chapters, the interest of the reader being well sustained; swhile a paper i by Mr. ...

... and Co.) aives the place of h6nour this mdnth to an attractive ppaer 'on Ailx, by IMr.' . A. Fremau,- the historian. Mr. Thomas Hardy presents some further instalmeents of his serial story The-;Woodlanders, whitch is remark- ably vell sustained, while ...

... Den, b 'M1y Success in Literature, and some further 1 instalments of tee serial story The Wood- e landers, by Mr. Thomas Hardy. Mr. William t {;reswell will, no doubt, find many appreciative f, readers as he takes them to The wilds and i woodlands ...

... Journey throurh IC.ornwall, a poeci by J. Henry Shforthouto eimtithmd MAly Wifc's Valentine; a doeies. Isuc story by Thomas Hardy, Interlopers I at the Rnap; and verses hcaded A Woma:n's Keepsake, by I. WS. Gosse. The illustrations, however, are ...