... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... literature; men n-ere turning away-in disgust r I from so ealld realistic hooks whir-h dealt in filt. i 1 The pessimism of Thomas Hardy and Rud card e! Kiplihg were losing their ch-srm, 'r Tilby was| aj for-otten after a few months of prurient niadness ...

... represented by Sir ,i3ancis Knollys, thlo Prince of Wales by Lord . Cnurclill, and the Dtuke of York by the Hon. Derek Reppel. Thomas Hardy, the novelist, 'and numerous county-folk were also present. - THE KAISER'S VISIT TO COWES. The Press Association Cowes ...

... Czworie, farmer-, Ioacsanity. 105 ; Captain black1 of hlown 4 ; William Christie, farmer, Tufts, Fs. tje;n:ccsefui-liev. Thomas Hardy, Fowlis Wocster , 55 Mr Todd, farmner, Gorthv, 46. Rev. Sir Itendry nod Mr Christie being equal fon the fifth ldlce, the ...

... Assembly, in room of the Rev. Mr Jamieson, Monzie. The commis- sioners accordingly are; -- Rev. Dr Pankin , Muthill; Rev. Thomas Hardy, F. Wester; Rev. J. Martin. Grasl; Rev. ?? Cadapbell, Moonzie- vaird. Elders-Messrs James Culbert, teacher, Ardoch; James ...

... minister of the church and norish of Moosie. In the absence of the Rev. CAndrew. Camnpbel~l, Crieff, moderator, the Rev. Thomas Hardy, Fowlis Wester, presided. The proeedings were very formal. and as there were no objections to thae appointmenl; the Presbytery ...

... land-. What Scott and Stevenson have done for many parts of Scotland, and what George Eliot has done for Warwickshire, and Thomas Hardy for Devonshire, Mrs Ward is doing 'for the lovely valley of the Kent. Anyone travel. ling by the West Coast route to the ...

... speare and .Eschylus. So, too, even in our own dav, when Mr Meredith publishes a book like The Amazing Marriage, or 'Mr Thomas Hardy defies the lightnings of propriety, if not of deceucy, with Jude the Obscure, the critics really set themnselves to study ...

... the Painter-Etcher. A Practical Treatise. ?? Hugh Paton. (London: Raithby, Law- erence & Co.) . The Tmrumpet-Major. By Thomas Hardy. q The Wessex Novels. Vol. IX. (London: I Osgood, M'Ilvaine & Co.) I Born to be a Sailor; or, A House on the Roll- s log ...

... & or ltert, who thinks that the state of justice P as administered in the Republic is deplorable. & I A short story by Thomas Hardy affords a pleas- Z ing relief to the general solidity of the number. C i The historical noval in Muerray's' Magazince is ...

... after thle laps Of so many centuries, certain spots-have St Walac's{ NE, .BOOKS: OF YESTERDAY.X A Group of Noble Danmes. B Thomas Hardy. The Wessex Novels. Volume XV. (Londo: Osgood, 'Imvaine & Co.) The Soz of Xt Lost Sazt. By Hugh Colemau Davidsoh. (Lodon: ...