... M~r l Thomas Hardy. 'But one does not recall them as one recalls Willoughby Patterne or Gabriel Oak, and as one recalls Thadkeray's I Charles Honeymnan. or Dickens's Ohad'oand. This is no doubt to be accounted for by the fact that when Mr Hardy' and Mr ...

... days of a eye-feasting at such spots as Sneem or Parkna- l silia Taste in scenery, according to that nice e observer, Mr Thomas Hardy, is undergoing a E slow but steady change; the eye craves mere and more of the rugged and grandiose and wearies of the ...

... to circumstarnces perhaps quite as much as temperament, had peculiar experiences, it which, in the skilful hands of -. Thomas Hardy, e might have been weaved into a novel of the .siaue type as Far from the Madding r.Crowd or at least Under the Green- ...

... inn at Burford Bridge, at no distance , from Mr Meredith's house. The guests of the evening were Mr George Meredith, . Mr Thomas Hardy, Mr Theodore Watts, Mr v Edmund Gosse, Mr Wm. Sharp, and Mr Austen. I . Among the diners who are devotees of the great ...

... Fiske proposes to come to London at Christmas tie to ?? only Becky Sharp hut also very iplay, th part of 'Tess's in Mr Thomas Hardy' s United i which she has achieved success in the UntdStates. Some time ego Miss Wak-efield, a lady con- ductor and vocalist ...

... exceedingly undignified bout of fisticuffs in the Tower between Sir Francis Palgrave and Sir Thomas Dufifs Hardy, when Palgrave called Hardy a liar, and Hardy blacked Palgrave's eyes very effectually. Of course he tells us that 1Palgrave's real nanse was ...

... thanjsix attempts to dramatise Lorna Doese, a with the sole result that there have been six a failures. I wonder if Mr Thomas Hardy will It follow Mr Blackmore's example and himself c undertake the dramatisation of The Mayor of Casterbridge; for this ...

... of the me- iuentos is a lock of the hero's hair, beneath which is the autograph inscription of Sir i Thomas Sttines, Given to me by Sir Thomas Hardy, on board the Victory, on his arrival in i the Medway with the body of my friend and1 ipatron. Alas ...

... assert that the novels of the classic i1p- *vriters (if sve except the authors of sitch calibre as ia 1 R-. D. Bleckmore. Thomas Hardy, R. L. Steven- een son, Stanley Weyman, acud others) are as popular ile, as the novelists of the preseut day. I find that ...

... Mr Asquith, Mr J. WI. Barrie, MJrs Hugh Bell, Professor A. C. Bradley, Sir William Martin Conway, Dr Richard Garneut, Mr Thomas Hardy. Mliss Jane Harrison, M3fr William Heinemeann, _Mr Henry James, Dr George Macdonald, Professor G. MIurray, Mr Claude Phillips ...

... Mitchell and I Notes on Tinker Life by Mr M'Callum. 1There is nothing supplementary from Colonel IWilliamson or the Rev. Thomas Hardy, of Fowlis, both of whom have written on the sub- !ject, and know more about it, I believe, than any other two men outside ...

... approval of the country at large. AIR SER HARDIE's reception last night in South WVest Ham was very hearty. Whatever the official Liberal party in the House of Commons, or in other constituencies, may think about Mr Hardie's perverse political ways, it seems ...