... THOMAS HARDY AT HO . . In an illustrated interview with Thomas aippears in Te Young Man tor Marcl deolares that it is by no means difficult t tlory. 1 like doing a ahort story Occasion: if only as a rcliat to the tension ot writinl .-V. * novels ...

... The Cat and the Kfngfither. STRANGE thingi bappen in Wessex, Bays Mr Thomas Hardy, and we believe him. A correspondent tells us a story which may well be the wonder of the country side. The scene is the village of Fordington, hard by Dorchester, and the ...

... housekeeping ?? Jude, if he will aconsent to the artaugement, but- dis. tinctly on the. terms i: 'platanie philesophy. T'homas Hardy is,-'videnly. deternfited to 'invent a,, new' wan`-of his own. ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... Veto Bi)l, and to-morrow he intends to ask the Prenier whether the Rouse is to consider that the measure Is dropped, MIxr Thomas Hardy made hie first essay as a damatle lact night at Terry's Theatre, in a one act plece, entitled, The Three Wayfarerm, foundcd ...

... the same evening. The pilgrims return to London on March 3rd, in the evening, The annual Dorset hiring fair, of which Mr Thomas Hardy gives a vivid description in one of his novels, was held at Dorchester yesterdsy. There was no political demonstration ...

... 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, ...

... brief stay, I The Prince of Walese i said to be an admirer of 3 Miss Mavie Corelli'm novels. He is also an admirer of I Thomas Hardy, and reecives from the mautho specially I bound copies of their books, I Sir Edward M6ale, the retiring British Ambassador ...

... has not at only ordered the volume to be placed in the Vatican Library, but has awarded a gold medal to the author. ng Mr Thomas Hardy, thenovelist, io now at Dublin on ud a visit to the Lord Lieutenant, The son of the late de Monckton Milnes evidently inherits ...

... been written by Hezokiah Butterworth, might e witi a slight change of names and tronslation or idiom have been composed by Thomas Hardy, and the plot laid %n one - of the English rural homes which the' writer -delights to depict Constance Fenimore Woolson ...

... which she had been received by all classes. It gives one quite a shock, remarks the Globe, to see it announced that Ur Thomas Hardy has been ?? aA J.P. for Dorset, and tolk his seat upon the Bench at Dotcheater on lhnurrday. One instinctively feels that ...