... The Art of Thomas Hardy, because it is as impossible to read it at a stretch-although it contains less than three hundred pages of large type-as it is to swallow a jar of honey at a gulp. If the perusal has not convinced me I that Mr Hardy is the modern ...

... Blackmore, Mr Black, Mr Stevenson, Miss Braddon, Mr Hall Caine, Mr Walter Besant, Mr Conan Doyle, Mr Marion Crawford, Mr Thomas Hardy, Mr James Payne. There is, however, said to be Practically very little difference in the sums paid to all included in the ...

... Professor Kennedy, Edinburgh: Princi- pal Stewart, St Andrews ; the late Professor Milligan. Rev. Peter Anton, Kileyth ; Rev. Thomas Hardy, Fowlis Wester, Perthshire- Rev. Dr MIClymont, Aberdeen B Rev. John Liddell, Adrvie, Strathapey ; Rev. James i 'rlachlan ...

... yoars ago at the Gaiety Theatre. The liabilities do not exaeed £700. Mr Rudvard Kipling i8rambling in Dorsetaidro w with Mr Thomas Hardy. o A Prois newspaper saya that M. Felix Faure will make a long tour in Algeria next March with his wife and daughter. Plymouth ...

... has cost, it is said, ever £lO,OOO. Mr J. Ashby Starry baa written novel under the title of A Tale of the Thames. Mr Thomas Hardy has theughts of extending his story, the Well-Beloved,” into a full-blown novel. This story was written three or four years ...

... Mdr Jolbs Anderson tied A t tO with odds for the first onrce; the third was wron by Air D4sid Weighton, 34 with odds. MAr Thomas Hardy end Mir I. Ha. Tawos tied at 25 with odds for the fourth: and Dr W. Loawson (2 under scratch), Mr W. Lawson. and M r John ...

... without having some momenta of inspiration. Lan declared, in a recent interview, that he considered Mr J. M. Barrie, Mr Thomas Hardy, and Mr George Meredith the three foremost living writers of fiction in this country, and that Mr Barrie was in his opinion ...

... s cheek. Two well-dressed men have been arrested. A GEORGIAN LYING IN STATE. - A letter, dated January, 1725, from Sir Thomas Hardy to Robert, one of the great Pitt family then resident in Bath, and printed in the 13th report of the Historical Manuscript ...

... he in rendered renmunerative by its enormous circulation. el Thle chief contributor to the letterpress this ?? '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 ...

... tsatle. The catalogue shows complete, or jalnmO1 t Con1iplece, sets of thle' first edlitions of I Dicken, George Eliot, Thomas Hardy, (Charles Kingslev, Lever, Btmlwer Lytton, i Marlyat, G2erge _1 eredithi, ('harles Reade, o Seott, Stev en auot SWineburine ...

... Messrs Marion Crawford, Henry James, and Walter Besant will each try their luck with a play, and it is rumoured that Mr Thomas Hardy, after one more long story as yet in the making, will devote himself entirely to writing for the stage. The publication ...

... ERNEST RENAN., HALL CAINE. PROF. JEBB. SIR, WALTER BIESANT. PIERRE LOTI. ALPHONSE DAUDET. EVDMUND GOSSE. PAUL BOURGET. THOMAS HARDY. MIRS HUMPHRY WARD. EDMUND DE GONCOURT. DR GARNETT. It wili be seen that the list includes many famous names from other ...