... splendid irony of Thomas Hardy. When Mr, Shaw wakes his hero under the shadow of the gallows ask the Chaplain who begins to read the Burial Service, whether that was a fit place for a man of his profession, the effect is almost blasphemous, Hardy would have ...

... population amongst whom it obtains ; but it perhap* har.lly to be recommended Western society—until the Grant Aliens and Thomas Hardy* have debased us to the necessary level. ...

... Many will hear with regret of the death of Mise Robina F. Hardy, a well-known Edia- burgh story writer. A daughter of the late Me Thomas Hardy, sw dentist in Ediaburgh, Miss Hardy, during the last twelve years or more, was @ lific writer of stcries of ...

... The death is announced at Rockham » near Hardy, the famous novelist. Dorchester, of Mr Hardy, the father of Mr Thos, deceased was @ typical member of the class of Dorset rustic folk from which Mr Thomas Hardy draws his inspiration, and which has supplied ...

... WP., Mr. Norman Gale (the shire Poet) and Mr. Jerome K. promised to give original readings; and it is unlikely that Mr. Thomas Hardy will also Lord Salisbury is making steady progress tow 0 convalescence, and if the genial weather which © Eastertide so ...

... im the Ruitor’s preface, such names as George Mere- dith, Rudyard Kipling, Walter B-sant, Graot Q ul er Conch, ‘‘Ouida,” Thomas Hardy, to Mrs W. A. Clifford, Rider H only a few, sre anamplé guarant-e that those for the production of the now familiar and ...

... death is announced at Rockhampton, near Dorchester, of Mr Hardy, the father of Mr Thos. Hardy, the famous The deceased was typical member ef the class of Dorset rustic folk from which Mr Thomas Hardy hie inspiration, ard which has supplied the charac: tera ...

... Anti-Marriage League, and endeavours to criticise Mr Thomas Hardy, Mr Grant Allen, and other writers of the new school of fiction. There appevrs to be no end to the persons who recollect something about Thomas Carlyle, one of whom contributes several pages ...

... Shakespeare and the Elizabethan dramatists, but «iso those modern masters of prose and pessimism Meredith, George Eliot, Thomas Hardy, and Beatrice Harraden, varied by the more sensational productions of Henry Wood, Braddon, Mari Corelli, Lytton, and other ...

... be published in a few days' time by Messrs. Kegan Paul and Sons. will be in one six shilling volume, and is dedicated to Thomas Hardy, Novelist. Mrs. Laffan is now engaged upon story sebool-boy life, which the title will The Gift of God. This book may ...

... posterity say to this, looking hack on Moredith as an immortal, we already look back on Tennyson to some extent, and what about Thomas Hardy, and others now living and producing work that compares favourably with the average any other period? Before, and since ...

... be an improvement on No. 1. An enterprising interviewer has been asking Mr. Thomas Hardy why he made his great novel “ Tess of the d’Urbeville’s ” end sosadly. To which Mr. Hardy made reply that he was not responsible, “ half-way through the story the ...