... returned to England many years since, and that no such person as Jabez Balfour is known in tho Argen- tine Republic Mr. Thomas Hardy, who is dramatising his power- ful story less of the If Urber cities, is net auch a novice at the art of converting a story ...

... Kinloch Hannoeh, Perthshire, and they had several days’ excellent trout-fishing in Loch Kannoch and ua the river Tumrael. Mr. Thomas Hardy spent the whole of last week at l»oblm Castle the guest of Lord Houghton, who amongst bis most enthusiastic admirers. Tho ...

... Bee*h after all in London in the stage version of Tess of the D'Urbervilles. She has been in negotiation again with Mr. Thomas Hardy for the production of his dramatised novel, and is really very eager to pro- duce it, though there are some difficulties ...

... the Old Country. 55 Thus in the March number of Harper's Magazine appears the first of some papers on Wessex Folk, by Thomas Hardy, illustrated ; uid an article by Mr. L. Hutton, Literary Land- narks of Kdmrwirj'h,*' with 16 illustrations by Joseph ...

... would allow and they eared to hear him, be would ceme and give an address. Both meetings on Sunday were addressed by Mr. Thomas Hardy, of Manchester; Mr. Moss presided in the afternoon, and Mra. Lewis at night. On Wednesday evening Mr. Jos. Cort delivered ...

... his cuirass is woithlens. A Mxs. ELSOM. living ia West street, Hornca*t'% has given birth to triplets. Two have died. Mb. Thomas Hardy, tho novelist, I— s been spa/M- -ing a holiday with the Lord- Lieutenant in Dublin. Fba>_ Bbebs, for many years huntsman ...

... is drawn to the successive brief discourses of these masters in fiction-writing, Messrs. Paul Booget, Walter Besaut, and Thomas Hardy, upon Tbe Science of Fiction. For there is science in the con- struction of good sound fiction, whether there ba any ...

... platter and knife; Mrs. Hallett, flower vase; Dr. and Mrs. J. Walmsley Heywood, silver-mounted cut-glass scent bottles; Bey. Thomas Hardy, card tray; Mies Lily Hoyle, silver-gilt Apostle spoons; Miss Hu_ill. music stand; Mr. and Mrs. W. B. Huntington, drawing-room ...

... every- thing wliich serves to irame it should be attractive. Give it your best attention. Sni)E\r (Darweu).— The hoole is by Thomas Hardy. A won- derful story, wonderfully told. Bead it by ali means. Ai.-_.-TT!.— Have a velvet collar and twist round the basque ...

... birth to writers like Mr. George Mhredith, Mr. Rider Haggard, Mr. Louis Stevenson, Mr. William Black, Mr. Blackmore, Mr. Thomas Hardy, Mr. Barrie, Mr. Zangwill, Mr. Hall Came, Mr. Grant Allen, Sir W. Besant, and a bewil- dering number of others, some of ...

... Gal- lon, and Cutliffe Hyne; then follows a host oi authors whose works will be taken, among whom are Flora Anne Steele, Thomas Hardy, William La Qucx, Rob— Bok lerwood, lan Maclaren, Jerome X Jero_oe, H. G. Gells, and others. AN UNGI-iTEFUL SERVANT FOR ...

... the above well-known couplet, and many of my readers will no doubt be interested as to where our famous writers live. Mr. Thomas Hardy liver, in the heart ot his beloved Wessex, at the quaint town of Dorchester. Mr. George Meredith has a chaiming chalet ...