THOMAS HARDY AS A POET.*

... Drurnwond-.Norie. With an Introductory Poem bv A'ice Ct. !Jacdonell tf Ke~rpoch. 10s. &d. Glasrow'- Wi'i- SX POEAC~S. By Thomas Hardy, 6S. Harper R')MZIS! Wi'H{OTT THPt POPE IN T'HE. CHIUit'l-1i(F E-NOLAND. By the tiov. Henry ?? Ciake BA. 4,. 6d. I-I. W ...

The Going of the Battery

... life-beats are low, Other and graver things . . . Hold we to braver things- Wait we-in trust-what Time's fulness shall know. THOMAS HARDY. ...

THEATRE ROYAL

... Is woman never to have a second chance ? May a mana lead-a doable life, while a woman falls irretrievably t Later Mr. Thomas Hardy faced the problem of A Visit in Tessof the D'Urbervilles, which he called The Story of i Pure Woman. Indeed, it is ...

LITERARY GOSSIP

... present month.fa Mr Thomas Hardy and the lion. Mrs Hen- niker, Lord Houghton's sister, are to collaborate, on a novel. Mrs Henniker dedicates the volume ai of Outlines, which Messrs Hutchinson are about to publish, to my friend Thomas Hardy. Outlines ...

NEW BOOKS OF YESTERDAY

... Banister Fletcher, ?? and Banister F. Fletcher, A.&.I.B.A. With 115 plates. (London: B. T. Baesford.) Delperaee Reredies. By Thomas Hardy. The Wessex N`ovels. Vol. XII. (London:1 Osgood, SI 'l1vaine & Co.) Thszeydidts. Book III. Edited, with intro- dnction ...

LITERARY ITEMS

... century; and Thomas Hardy, who can-1 le tributes a story of English oorntry life. ce . A bolt j issud. from the office of the al Fifeashre Advertiser, and sketehing theereez of of Provost Swan, tells-astory worth repeating about )w his friend Thomas Capiyl; ...

NEW BOOKS OF YESTERDAY

... Mii. Ailhman, 1)i ?? Sc. (London : Adam & Charles B'r. By Hcnrv Seton Merriman. ?? E,: >E.161 lder Co.) ;, Qt s hp . Bv Thomas Hardy. The ?? \ >oveW. VoL Vill. (London: Osgood, i & Co.) W 6 ?? of Geooqe Eliot. Standard edition. ?? do. Vols. 1. and 1I. ...

LITERARY ITEMS

... is practically settled that - Professor Drnmmond's book on the evolution of rman will not be published for a year.-Mr. Thomas Hardy is understood to be giving himself a rest from fiction. He has been encouraged by the reception of his little sketch at ...

A Dramatic Scene

... emancipation, as he would be inclined to regard it, to a surfeit of petting and a want of healthy excitement and activity. Thomas Hardy, with his cynical contempt for the feminine nature, would fled vanity, love of finery, or even sndden impulse, sufficient ...

NEW EDITIONS

... Edwin Hodder. It is a presentable volume with a good index.-Messrs. Sampson Low anr Co. send us The Trumpet Major, by Thomas Hardy, uniform with Far From the Madding Crowd. These are novels destined to Eve, we-will not be rash enough to say for centuries ...

A NEW MAGAMZINE

... impossible that an authoress of such reputation as Miss Grand can confound the works of two such people as George Elliot and Thomas Hardy, so we must suppose it to be a misprint. There is also a poem by Mr. Norman Gale, with a very bad illustration ; and a ...

LITERARY NOTES

... haZ coat, it is said, over £10,000. Mr J. Ashby Sterry has written a novel under the title of ' A Tale of the Thames. Mr Thomas Hardy has theughts of extend. ing hisstory, ThePursuit of the Well-Beloved, into a full-blown novel. This story was written ...