... Baring-Gould are doing the same. The only novelists Mr. Macnamara could call mind who are generally sympathetic to teachers are Thomas Hardy and lan Maclaren,” This attitude baa tended to keep down the status of teachers. Besides, English people have no great ...

... sensations. It has still to be proved, however, that a water-beetle can thrive on gastric juice, MR. HALL CAINE, like Mr. Thomas Hardy, was originally an architect, and his first literary efforts were made in the columns of the Builder. One of these articles ...

... the club has, we understand, made a distinct score by securing Mr. Thomas Hardy as a guest at its next dinner. Mr. Hardy has consented to read a beautifnl little story, entitled Thomas Horsefeld, Knight, which he has written for the summer number of the ...

... was probably painted about 1480. Some of our older novelists seem to have developed an anxiety to be reckoned poets. Mr. Thomas Hardy recently published Wessex poem of some length, Mr. Hall Caine has written a Manx ballad, ana now comes Mr. Blackmore with ...

... but, besides these, there will be found one story of a tragic order, which Mrs. Henniker wrote in collaboration with Mr. Thomas Hardy. This is called “The Spectre of the Jieal,” and has already appeared in Mr. Jerome’s popular weekly. Mai Nordau's new book ...

... of the International Library, translator in the commercial department of the Board of Trade) has bee staying with Mr. Thomas Hardy, the novelist, Dorchester, and is likely to dedicate his new work t the author of Tess.” The book in question is likel ...

... Tns Quarterly Review has lately picked up its ancient, if interrupted, tradition of causticity, and having attacked Mr. Thomas Hardy 's masterpiece, assails, in its last number, Mr. Kipling and all his works. The attack is neither consistent nor convincing ...

... Academy. The committee seems certainly to have missed an opportunity which might have led to excellent results. . . Mr. Thomas Hardy has now decided to publish his story The Pursuit of the Well-Beloved ’’ in the collected edition of his writings. It is ...

... Messrs. Marion Crawford, Henry James, and Walter Beaant will each try their luck with a play, and it is rumoured that Mr. Thomas Hardy, after one more long story yet in the making, will devote himself entirely to writing for the stage. Meanwhile, somewhat ...

... Lever's novels. But for the capacity to tell a story he sets Richardson above them all. He has a great admiration for Thomas Hardy and George Meredith among living novelists, and an unqualified opinion of Lord Tennyson amongst our living poets. Lord ...

... both Mr. Rudyard Kipling and Mr. George Moore having studied character iu the Eastend of London in disguise, while Mr. Thomas Hardy, of Wessex renown, is quite at home in Dorset shire dairies and farm kitchens. PROFESSOR GARNER, who went to Africa to ...

... forth the survival of a picturesque old rite, Garland Sunday in Dorsetshire,” which last canvas might perhaps interest Mr. Thomas Hardy as well the folklorist. Tna collection of pictures in connection with the forthcoming Eshibition Gardening and Forestry ...