... D. Blackmore contributes an interesting poem, Buscombe ; or, a Michaelmas Goose, illustrated by C. S. Reinhart; Mr. Thomas Hardy a thoroughly characteristic story, The First Countess of Wessex and Mr. Theodore Child finds a sympathetic subject in ...

... members who have already sigaitied their intention of being resent 11B aro Professor Benner, Mr. George Angustus Sala, Mr. ut Thomas Hardy, Mr. George Meredith. Mr. Austin !ss Dobson, Mr. Enand Gosso, Mr. Rider Haggard, Mrr- neo Grant Alleu, Mr. Moy Tbomas ...

... held, under the presidency of the pastor, Mr. John Bennett Anderson, who was supported by a good staff of speak-ers.-Mr. Thomas Hardy, of the Uinited Kingdom alliance, deliv.ered an interesting address, followed by Mr. J. A. Loo3, of Wesley Htall, Sohc'-streer ...

... George Meredith was unavoidably absent, so that Fiction was not represented by the greatest living master of the craft. Mr. Thomas Hardy and Mr. Rider Haggard, however, were present, and, of course, Mr. Besant himself. Mr. Holman Hunt was there for Art, and ...

... ng. A richly-deserved compliment has been paid to Mr. Thomas Hardy by his election to fill the place on the council of the Society of Authors vacated by the death of Mr. Wilkie Collins. Mr. Hardy is not well- known in London, for he spends most of his ...

... steel with a lathe, when a sdenl flewrin his eye, badly cuttingthe pupil. aeg ico attended to at Poplar hospital. Yesterday Thomas Hardy, aged 23, a labourer, w 4,3, Rsopemakers'4feld5, Limehouse, employed st th dry docks, elether's wharf, was taken to the ...

... made already to '£5,000 on Little Lord Fauntleroy. It is said a, she can earn nearly :£12,000 a year with her pen. n Mr. Thomas Hardy, the novelist, lives in m Dorsetshire. in the midst of the people whom he y has so minutely studied and described. His ...

... will be able to give evidence when Autan Ihis wunid-he ?? ?? Arneson ?? ?? 0ZD 5 lubrouguz up again nextWed, Yesterday, Thomas Hardy, aged twenty-three, a labourer, of 43, Ropomakers'-fields, Limehois-, em- ployed atthi drydocks, Fletcher's Wharf, vas ...

... Engvlish Duke, with a tie whiclt lie e mies probably appreciates quite as much as the Duke b on himself does. t trd Mir. Thomas Hardy, the novelist, is a trute son1 em of toil, his father being chiefly employed as a, .era bricklayer. He was born in Dorset ...

... The Dean and Chapter of St. Paul's have appointed the Rev Thomas Bates, formerly of the St. Andrew's Waterside Mission, to the living of Caddington, near Lutoe, Beds, in succession to the Rev Thomas Prescott. Lord Carnarvo53 has presented the living of ...

... Politicians were ex(ceedingly few in number. l Literature was represented by Mr. Browning, Mr. Lecky, Mir. William Black, Mr. Thomas Hardy, Mir. Wilkie Collins, Mr. Rider Haggard, and Mrs. Hurmphry Ward, science by Mr. Hudxy le the drama by MIr. Irving; and ...

... maintenance of main roads. A DUnHAm BANKnOTP.xcY.-ALLTLGOD EXTRA- ORDINARSY TRADING,-At Darliasm Bankruptcy Court yesterday, Thomas Hardy, described as a commission agent and glass and china dealer, came up for ?? 1ad been in busi- ness in various thoroughfares ...