LITERARY AND ART GOSSIP

... during the coming |sason W\ho Would be a Wooman?' and A Three' fold Mlystery-two novels by Constance Serjeant. M-r. T'homas Hardy and thse Hon. Mrs. Idenn iker are cololuornatin; ilt the vwriting of a short storv entitled The Spectre of the Real, ...

THE SHORT STORY

... su only incidentaUy, Mr. Wedin2re refeebriefly n to vnters like Mr. Kipling, Dr. Cot:an Doyle, Mr. Henry Jamos, and Mr. Thomas Hardy, and, having I said not a wozd, even incidentally, abtut his own work, he spoke more fully, and apparently with lesaconstraint ...

NEW EDITIONS

... that I ranks such a handy and enjoyable book as this.- From Messrs. Sampson- Low and Co. we receive Two on a Tower, by Thomas Hardy,' the latest addition to the cheaper reissue of these choicer I products of current fiction.-Messrs. Murray send us (1) ...

LITERARY GOSSIP

... sister of the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland, which is to be published under the title of Outlines, and dedicated to Mr Thomas Hardy, who, it is under- stood, has expressed a favourable opinion upon the work. Dr Smiles is making considerable progress with ...

FASHION AND VARIETIES

... Heather. Sligo ; F 11 An- derson, W S Loundes, Captain H Stodon, Majosr F H Thorntan, Williarn Bates, Mrs W Bates, Thomas Hardy, Mrs T Hardy, Mrs and Miss Hicks, Robert Clough, Mrs F Lockett, the MIisses Lockett (2), A J Wheeler, Miss W Hall, H F Forest ...

REVIEWS

... Constable.) In A Group of Noble Dames (Osgood McIlvaine and Co.), the fifteenth volume of the Wessex Novels, Mr. Thomas Hardy has gathered together half a score stories which he wrote for various periodicals six or seven years ago, based on county ...

Advertisements & Notices

... RBERVILLL~.` LIFE'S LITTLE IRONIES A Set of Tales, with some Colloquial Sketches, entitled A Few Crusted Characters. By THOMAS HARDY. Crown 8vo, It cloth extr'a, 6s. NOTE.-Tko, First Large Edition. SOLD OUT a, d week before puiblica~tion.. Secondc Editiont ...

LITERARY NOTICES

... te important notes on installatiha managemen& ] est The illustrations are numerous and goo?. 03 A Pair of Blue Eyes. By Thomas Hardy, - In, author of Tess of the d'Urbetvilles, &c. .u nd (2s. 6d. London: Sampson, Low, Marston, 1 and Co.) This amusing ...

BOOKS AND MAGAZINES

... Soho- square, London. The Christmas number of the Birminighoam Weekly Post contains stories by such wvell-known writers as Thomas Hardy, Guy Boethby, Ianii Maclaren, George B. Sims, John Strango Winter, and Grant Allen. The Agriciultural Annual and Mark ...

ADMIRALTY REMINISCENCES*

... policy was admaired by Sir John Briggs because of its similarity to that of Sir Thomas Hardy under Sir James Graham. ROstESIGrT OF NELSON'S FRITE'i It was Sir Thomas Hardy's opinion that the powerful battleships earned everything in a general action ...

LITERATURE

... Barchester, through Anthony Trollope's novels, and as we are with Castorbridge and Wessex through the guid. ance of Mr. Thomas Hardy. Several of the per- sonages in the new Chronicles have appeared in John Orlebar and Calmshire Folk. but only in a ...

REVIEWS

... faith. He is consequently a fool, but a fool who is very serviceable in rough. dramas of a prinmiti\e kind. Just as Mr. Thomas Hardy loves his simpletons, like. Gabriel Oak or the Reddleman, so Mr. Harte cannot refrain tears from the Collinsons of his ...