... haZ coat, it is said, over £10,000. Mr J. Ashby Sterry has written a novel under the title of ' A Tale of the Thames. Mr Thomas Hardy has theughts of extend. ing hisstory, ThePursuit of the Well-Beloved, into a full-blown novel. This story was written ...

... palmistry. Among the bands dealt with are those of Mr Glad- stone, Lord Wolselsy, Sir Frederick Leighton, Sir Sir Evelyn Wood, Thomas Hardy, and John Oliver Hobbes. Messrs William Hodge & Co., Glasgow, have in the press, and will shortly publish, a volume of ...

... features of the Christmas number of the Illustrated Londoae News will be a story of the French Revolu-; tioc, by Afr Thomas. Hardy, entitled A Comri mittee Man of 'The Terror,' and a ghost story by Mr F. Marion Crawford. Mr Louis Becke will shortly ...

... sister of the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland, which is to be published under the title of Outlines, and dedicated to Mr Thomas Hardy, who, it is under- stood, has expressed a favourable opinion upon the work. Dr Smiles is making considerable progress with ...

... opinion. I think Thomas Hardy is the greatest novelist, by all odds, living to-day in England, and next to him, or with him, I should put George Moore. I found 'Esther Waters' one of the truest novels I 'had read. I like Tlhomas Hardy's 'Jude.' It deals ...

... Siddons, t and Signor Salvini contributes the fourth in- 8 stalment of his very interesting Leaves of a Autobiography. Thomas Hardy has for a f, good many years held a tolerably wide 1 reputation as an English novelist, and 'I his most recent book Tess ...

... Impressions of Anglo-Indian Life d will have special value. The complete I stories are numerous and good. The serial by Thomas Hardy, Heart's Insurgent is T finished, It has been of the erotic tommy- rotic order-a modern form of novel that is most ...

... Emerson, Carlyle, Robert Brown- ing, George Eliot, George 'MacDonald, the Scottish school of fiction, Mrs Humphre~r Ward, Thomas Hardy, and' George Meredith. Carlyle and George Eliot have already been dealt with by M3r R. H. Hutton, but in Dr Wilson's treatment ...

... his own attractive way, with I Memories of Fountainbleau. Among the other contributors are G. A. Sala, Alfred Austin, Thomas Hardy, (whose story, On the NVestern Circnit, is a bit of the crispest fiction imaginable), Baron Nordenskiold, C. Anstrut ...

... excellent serial, Princess Aline, by Richard Harding Davis, is finished, and the other novel, Heart's Insurgent, by Thomas Hardy, is keeping well utp to the high standard of interest with which ii t was begun. The March number of THE .~NINETEHNTI( ...

... Perhaps there may be more complete H stories than ordinary, and it is noticeable that a w new serial, The Simpletons, by Thomas M Hardy, is begun, so that it affords suitable opportunity for new readers testing its value, hut otherwise the magazine deviates ...

... Howie, John Irvine, Robert A. S. Lauder, James M'Hardy, John W. M'Intosh, Roderick M'Kay, Archibald M'Kenzie, Frederick Mann, Thomas Masson, James Mitchell, Richard B. W. Pirie, Alexander Riddel, Thomas D. Sherritt, William F. Smyth, William Stephen, Sidney ...