... a book of quite formidable dimen- sions on what he terms The Art of Thomas Hardy. The volume, truth to tell, throws quite as much light on Mr. Lionel Johnson as on Mr. 'Thomas Hardy, but the egotism and pedantry of this elaborate essay in criticism, ...

... guest of the ene.1ing at the next dinner of the New Vagabond Club on No-iember 5th will be Mr. t George Grcssmith. Mr. Thomas Hardy has returned from the Continent, .and ie nof engaged in the revision of his new bookr, Which is to appear in the spring ...

... 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, ...

... LI TERAY AD MT GOSSIP. Mrs. llennpiker HerIton has collaborated nv .h Mr. Thomas Hardy in a volume of short storieS. The decoaese is anoounced, at the age of eighty, of Mr. E. R. Kelly, the senior partner of bhe firm who publish the lvell-known directories ...

... song in that of Mr. Santlev Literature, music, and the stage send men of light and women of leading in the shape ' of Mr. Thomas Hardy, Professor Yilliers Stanford, Mrs. Bancroft, Miss Jessie Millward, and Miss Decima Moore. Society holds its own gracefully ...

... Hoeinemam. London. tsr Scareet end Grey: Stores ot Soldies eas Others. By Ploenee H:enrdker. And The Spectre of the Real. BY Thomas Hardy and Florence Hennaker. ethn Lane, tondon A Tes:-Bon.k of Pysines Exercises. AdapWed for the uise of ete- meatory sehools ...

... Gilchriat Thomas,' edited by Mr. R. W. Burnie. Mr. Thomas was, it seems, the inventor of the Baic-Besserner prrenss of mnan- faotnxing steel. Bessemer was umable to discover the method of elminating the phosphorus from the iron, and this Thomas, after long ...

... of them has failed to take honours of some sort in the schooL We look in vain for Mr. Blacknora and Mrs. Oliphant, for Thomas Hardy and Mr. Barry, for George MacDonald and Mr. Stevenson; but on the first page *we encounter Mr. W. E. Norris, and later ...

... cover, Is eaquisito colour, The I Parson's Daughter, after the picture by Rimney in the I _NaLtionail Gallery. Mlr. Thomas Hardy contributes A) |Group of Noble Dames, a story quite worthy of this| gieat mastcr of fteuo. To toe attractive contents ...

... include thie lady just meinticonkd. ir W'dteLr Bessnart, a 13jornstertic Bjornsoo, SJr. Hall Caine, Madame Sarah Grand, Mkr. Thomas Hardy, Lady Tlcenry SomErset, nd ?? tw.No more; subile, on the, ether eido, Mrs. LnnLintoni etmndondinsl the proposal in a fee' ...

... title of ' Outlines, and dedicated to fIr. TIhomas Hardy, si-te, it seems, has expressed a farourable opinion upon the work. Mr. T. F'sher Idnu-in ?? pulblish immediately The Eoutie Of Lords, by ?? Thomas Alfred Spalding. Thls work consists oi four parts-the ...

... editions of Thomas Hardy's Far From the Madding Crowd ar ugqoe at £3 and £4t, and £82 lOs. for the n tion of Desperate Remedies is not an outside price. It'may be of interest here to note that the late Robert Louis Stevenson was: one of Mr. Hardy's most ...