... their gallery a series of w !ater-colours, oils, and drawings in black and a Y white by various artists of 1 Wessex, Thomas c 1 Hardy's country, the moorland country of z . South England, which, with its picturesque a g valleys, its quaint eld towns, ...

... til g feso Doewdrel E. A. Freeman, J. A. Froude, e a I1V. S. Gilbert, S. Baring Gould, Rider Hag- 6 agra: [ . G. H irton, Thomas Hardy, Joseph W-N. E. H. Lecky, Sir John Lubbock, g Ijatin 'M'carthy, George Macdonald, Cardinal : 0; 2anning, George Xerivale ...

... ITHE LITERARY LWSSURE HOUR. I di. Mr Edmund Gosne, who ha. lately been anud spending a holiday with hfis friend, Mr Thomas I it, Hardy, the'uoy'cihst, has, I understand, collected Lrn he more important of his recent contributions to periodical literature ...

... R. A. Dencan, Aberdeeis.; s and vocal duets by Misses M'Hardy and Norrie, Miss Howitt and Me Rae. Selections on the - piano were given by Miss K. Maitland, and a d piano duet by Miss Mary M'Hardy and Miss e Norrie. Violin music was coiitributed by Miss ...

... I saw Mr Lewis Morris (about whom a whisper ran that his chances for the Laureateship had recently gone up tenfold), Mr Thomas Hardy ; Mr Ashby- Sterry; the young novelist, Air Coulson Kernahan; the eminent woman novelist w who writes nuder the pseudonym ...

... Brownings, Hawthorne, Leighv 'Hunt. John Stuart N ill, one from George I 0 Mleredith, and others from William Morris h if ande Thomas Hardy, are some of the interest- a d j cg correspondence left by Mr Bennett. I ?? interesting letter from Sir Walter Scott, a ...

... humour, and reomance. Mr Barrie is m00ce In. pai telligible to the general than Gleorge Meredith lack less Pessimistio than Thomas Hardy ; less cynical ;oft than Kipling; and compared with all of these an11 for Interpreter of more familiar types and emotions ...

... Mr Walter Besant has been le xisaie a lkight. Otherwise should there not 01 h1lave, been Sir George Meredith and Sir oc Thomas. Hardy before Sir Walter, and are tl 'w Sot certain to have Sir William Black, h Sir James Payn, Sir Conan Doyle, Sir James. A ...

... Sir Martin Conway, Mr John Morley, Mr John Ruskin, Mr Hall Caine, Mr Rider Haggard, Mr Henry Norman, Sir Edwin Arnold, Mr Thomas Hardy, Mr R. D. Blackmore, Avr William Black, Mr Alfred Austin, and, in fact, all the prominent authors will probably be affixed ...

... writers of the day were present. Among others (writes a lady correspondent)-L during the short time I was there-I saw MIr Thomas Hardy, who returns to Dorchester next week, Mrs Henniker, Lord Houghton's much feted sister, Miss Ella Hepwortli Dixon, i Miss ...

... in l regard to the miseries of the more help- less classes of labourers than the late Lord I Beaconsfield. Not even Mr Thomas Hardy t himself has described more powerfully the seamy side of E:glish rural N life; and there can be no real ques tion that ...

... been born, in homes where the religious and social in- fluences were those of Nonconformity. Such names as those of Mr Thomas Hardy, Mr George Meredith, and Mr Andrew Lang are not mentioned by the author iof this article. But, then, he says en- ,pressly ...