... he -wise woman is believed to exist by virtue ot he ignorance of the people, and according to si aie opultr novelists— Thomas Hardy for one, we are ,r>t sure that we cannot say Rudyard Kipling f or ull . .ther— it is not so certain th.it these wise ...

... Reviewn opens with a poem by Mr. Swin- u- burns, The Swimmer's Dream. Mr. Walter Besant, ed Mrs. Lynn Linton, and Mr. Thomas Hardy discuss candour in fiction, and Viscount Wolmer explains how d, to get the Tithes Bill through the House of Commons, 're ...

... with much unobtrusive power. b The authoress evinces a capacity of drawing rural life d and people whieh reminds one of Thomas Hardy and , his Weeoex folk. Her characters are depicted with a n quiet forcefulness which is very pleasing, ard het la stories ...

... amonrat the front-rank writers of the present da'y are the W. D. Ilowells, R. L. Stevenson, Brat lHarte, Walter silk Beaant, Thomas Hardy, Frances Hodgeon Burnett, Henry James, &o. A together tbhe contribetors )nc number nearly thirty. The frontespiece, is ...

... poem; Sir Samuel Baker, he who writesof tiger hunting ; W. Clark Russell, Grant [ ve Allen, George Augustus Saila, and Thomas Hardy. he Harper's AJ'agarine reproduces Rosetti's a Ecce ne D'Ancilln Domini, and has a great variety of contents, th Andrew ...

... One Tree Hill, with some quaint verses and the Adventures of Jaockey Marlingspike, areamongst the best of these. Mr. Thomas Hardy is the principal writer, and the series of old world stories which he tell are not only very cleverly conceived but have ...

... ended in the election of the rn' Archbishop of Canterbury, who eesily defeated Mr. R. mh S. Gardiner the historian and Mr. Thomas Hardy the ;he novelist. More solid articles are contributed by Sir 1he Obarles Dilke, who writes on the present condition of ...

... Ik the joyful mother of freeborn children, The provin- or cialism of London is made the subject of some satire, LP Mr. Thomas Hardy is warmly praised, and we have a It. glimpse of what England is to be under Socialism. in In the January number of Good ...

... describes the Manitoba schools question which has i on just been troubling the Cana:gdian pariament. A study I is of Mr. Thomas Hardy as a decadent is made by Mr. of A. J. Butler, and contains many just words. It is ] ,cc a friendly article, but points ...

... Magazine appears in Christmas garb, and is a very strong number both as regards literary matter and illustrations. Mr. Thomas Hardy contributes the opening chapters of a new story, ' The Simpletons. Mr. R. H. Dairs writes about the is Show places of ...

... from his brethren. I am well aware that t ie in the south he is supposed, and espeeially by his great i is discoverer, Mr. Thomas Hardy, to be widely different v a a 'Man of like passions wlth hip more highly h 1, educated and more fortunatelyplaced brethren ...

... Meredith; Mr. Payne became a story ~e teller in connection with it: Mr. Stanley Weyman st wrote of Oxford life for it; Thomas Hardy wrote a Bt story for it in 1865; Dr. Conan Doyle had his first m story accepted and printed in Chrambers' in 1879-it n- ...