FASHIONS IN THE WORLD OF FICTION

... will have the faintest idea as to Mr. Hardy's meaning unless, perhaps, she happens to be the wile of a wheelwright. Another eminent novelist of to-day., Mr. W. E. Norris, is wiser in his generation than Mr. Thomas Hardy, for the autinorof Major and Minor' ...

THE MERRY WIVES OF WESSEX

... THE HERR V WITVES OF WESSEX.* MR. THOmAs HARDY, if we are not mistaken, was one of the novelists who raised a plaintive wail, some time ago, over the shadkleg-imprned upon their genius by Anglo-Saxon prudery. We have never felt any great sympathy with ...

THE SHIRE HORSE SHOW

... second with Gaudy Poll; Mr. T. H. Miller third with Marina (wiso was second in the yearling class last year) ; and Mr. Thomas Hardy fourth with Mero Duchess. Among three - year - olds a very hastdsome black brown mars, named Dunsenore Bracelet, was far ...

MAGAZINES

... the Strana is Mr. Montagu Williams, Q.C., and there are the usual ' Portraits of Celebrities -Salvini, Corney Grain, Thomas Hardy, and Mis. Keeley being among those given. THE AMERICAN MAGAZINES The boom in Chicago, or the City of the World's ...

LITERARY GOSSIP

... palmistry. Among the bands dealt with are those of Mr Glad- stone, Lord Wolselsy, Sir Frederick Leighton, Sir Sir Evelyn Wood, Thomas Hardy, and John Oliver Hobbes. Messrs William Hodge & Co., Glasgow, have in the press, and will shortly publish, a volume of ...

LITERARY GOSSIP

... Press, edited, with introduction and notes, by Professor Hull, of Cornell. Mr. W. L. Courtney is writing a monograph on Thomas Hardy for Messrs. Greening's -English Writers of To-day series. Messrs. A. C. Swin- bilnne, George Meredith, W. E. Henley, A ...

New Books and New Editions

... contains single novels by Mrs. Oliphant, Mr. David Christie Murray, Bret Harte, Mrs. Humphry Ward, Mr. Henry James, Mr. Thomas Hardy, and Sir Henry Cunningham; together with a few hooks of more general interest. MESSRS. CASSELL'S JAPANESE LIBRARY. The ...

LITERARY NOTES

... features of the Christmas number of the Illustrated Londoae News will be a story of the French Revolu-; tioc, by Afr Thomas. Hardy, entitled A Comri mittee Man of 'The Terror,' and a ghost story by Mr F. Marion Crawford. Mr Louis Becke will shortly ...

LITHOGRAPHIC EXHIBITION

... Rothenstein's litho. graphic efforts are widely known. Here he may be studied as the portraitist of Messrs J. S. Sargent, Thomas Hardy, William Archer, Walter Crane, lady Granby, and others. The remaining modern work includes Mr La, Thangue's individual ...

THE ROYAL SHOW AT WARWICK

... foaled in 1891, third prize. Mr. Thomas Pearson, Manor az House, Garston, Lancashire; shire filly foaled ina' 1890, first prize, Mr. ?? Beckett Chadwick, i Crofton Lodge, Runeorn, ditto, second prize, Mr. Thomas Hardy, Mere Hall Farm, A Knruteford, Cheshire; ...

NEW BOOKS AND NEW EDITIONS

... Irish Landlord and an. English M.P., a story, by E, C. Jeffreys (Digby and Long). Pp. 130. CA Group of Noble Dames, by Thomas Hardy (Osnod, M ilvaine. and Co.) Pp. 27L A Little Book of Western Verse, by Eugene Field (Osgood, Micllvaine, and Co.) Pp ...

MAGAZINES FOR JANUARY

... Army; and L, B. Walford contributes a capital descriptive sketch of the home of Charlotte Bronte. The novellette by Ur Thomas Hardy is written in that gentleman's inimi- table style. The Xautieal 1aqazine contains a scientific de- scription of tidal phenomena ...