... On the other hand sh fails to discover anty humour in Thomas Hardy, calls Dickens vulgar, and regards Sir Walter Scott as dreary and .westing in animation. It is curious how tastes differ. Mir Hardy may be l~h to make his own defence. It isf impossible ...

... Swinburne, A Swimmer's Dream.. Candour in English Fiction is dealt with by Walter Besant, Mrs. Lynn Linton, and Thomas Hardy. Viscount Wolmer makes some suggestions on how to get the Tithes Bill through Parliament- and another political article ...

... Bed- land, zmmma Alison, youngest daugh er of the late Thomas Pringle Cunningham. Of Olapham, Surrey, in her 71st year. RDY.-October 23, at Norton Hawkileld, after a short illnesg Thomas Hardy, in his 85th year, Deeply re- gpetted. NAE3H.-Ocbober 24 ...

... Thackeray, which may or may not be a good thing for literature, but will most assuredly prove a good thing for Mr. Black. Mr. Thomas Hardy, likewise, one is glad to state, has a large and increasing number of admirers, and is perhaps subject to less fluctuation ...

... the Salford Baths, New Blackfriare. sereef, on Monday, Mr. J. R. Gordon in the chair.- In the course of an address Mr. Thomas Hardy said the public house wes the demoraliser and destroyer of the people. To ?? about - compensating men whso were engaged ...

... Ecoleston, 1y William Valiant Ircher, aged 54. a PRESTON.-Bulxials since our lest :-Riehard Scaleg, ,, Byron-street, aged 70; Thomas Hardy, Fletcher- a- road, 42; Reuben Hand, Dover. street, 51; Sophia lY Kellett, Springfield-stroet, 71; AT oraham Wilcoek, St ...

... ic such periods in human existence appear when relieved of their environment. The following is from A Laodicean, by Thomas Hardy:- Her hand was hanging by her side, and Somerset was close by. He took it, and she did not draw it away. Thus they stood ...

... century but a manuscript was found at Utrecht which contained the whole of the creed, and upon it being submitted to Sir Thomas Hardy, chief of the British Museum, he declared the writing to be of such character as net to be later than tha sixth century ...

... service as a midshipmi, when the far off, stirring scenes in which he was an actor are remembered. He served under Sir Thomas HardY . at Trafalgar, and he was on board the Shannon in the action with the Chesapeake outside Boston, and when the duel was ...

... in rendered renmunerative by its enormous circulation. el Thle chief contributor to the letterpress this yLwar 's is Mr Thomas Hardy, the author of Far Fliuun the Madding Crowd,' who writes of A ( i oupi of Noble Women in a series of tales, suppotied ...

... Oastle.Caereiaion; vcat of lalAkyn, near Holywell. lev Freoele John Hall, MA, vioar of Little Wyminatdley, Herts. Rev Thomas Barker Hardy, 7ILA'; vicar of Buitwell, Nottingham. Rev-F. G.Huhes, 3,. ; vioarofSt, Peter's, astick. Rev 0. J. JobnRbone,. M.A, ...

... Mr. George Meredith, Dr. Oliver Wendell . Holnes, Mr. John Ruskin, Mr. RussellLdwell, E Count Tolstoi, Mr. Froude, Mr. Thomas Hardy, f Mr. Whittier, Mr. S*inbure, Mr. Hall Caine, c Mr. Robert Louis Stevenson, Mr. Andrew J Lang, Mr. W. D. Howeils, Mr. ...