... THOMAS HARDY, Mr Hardy is an unequal writer. He has his great moments, but is often dull and artificial. Although dealing so largely with peasant types and rustic situations, there is seldom anything idyllic in his treatment of them. It is in the tragic ...

... the peasant and middle-class life of the English Midlands of half a century ago. Of living novelists George Meredith and Thomas Hardy get precedence. GEORGE MEREDITH. The distinction of originality of style and method is undoubtedly his. But this very ...

... with which our readers are already familiar. Illustrations—Portrait of Professor Minto, and siews of the residences of Mr Thomas Hardy and Mr Rudyard Kipling. RECEIVED from the Drummond Depot, Stirling, a new packet— Chepstow Chips, or O'er True Tales. ...

... briefer forms. The writers include such well-known names as W. I) Howells, P,obert Louis Stevenson, Thomas Bailey Aldrich, Bret Harte, Walter Besant, Thomas Hardy, Henry James, Frances Hodgson Burnett, George W. Cable, etc., etc. The pictorial side of the number ...

... the best tale writers of the day. Last week's issue was bright with pictures, and eminently readable. We notice that Mr Thomas Hardy is to contribute a serial, the first since his great work, Tess of the D' Urber vines. MY ACADIAN FRIEND. ( An, American ...

... regarding church members. The Rev. Hugh Ross, Kilmarnock, acting as moderator of Fullarton Free Church, Irvine, reported Mr Thomas Hardy withdrawing his candidature. In consequence of some of the questions in the schedule not having been filled up, a committee ...

... sensational kind predominates. An Impression of Venice, by H. W. Massingham ; Ancient Earthworks at Dorchester, by Thomas Hardy ; and The Zoo Revisited, by Phil. Robinson, are the only papers which may be classed as magazine articles. The English ...

... brother, Or sweet baby, who crows loud and ;:heerly. ROUT. FORSYTH. THE MAGAZINES. (SECoN NOTICE. ADMIRERS of the works of Thomas Hardy will thank Mrs Harriet Waters Preston for her analysis of these in The Century Magazine. The estimate of his genius is ...

... tasteful re-issue of William Black's novels that the publishers have resolved to issue uniform editions of the novels of Thomas Hardy, R. D. Blackmore, and ('larke Russell. It is a happy thought, and the reading public will be glad of an edition of the ...

... own names walk into pages. ‘Do you remember Admiral Hardy ’The Trumpet Major Well, there he is Mr Hardy pointed to the portrait handsome old naval officer that hung upon the wall“ that Sir Thomas Hardy, whose arms Nelson died he was relation of mine. Then ...

... chosen by past and present authors for the groundwork of their stories. Such a map—to write at random—might allot Wessex to Thomas Hardy; parts of the metropolis to Charles Dickens and Walter Besant; ' Thrums,' inevitably, to J. M. Barrie; Cornwall to A. T ...

... MR KEIR HARDIE'S INSULT TO SCOTTISH MINERS. SIR,—In his reply to my letter about Mr Hardie, Mr Gormly begins by expressing his ignorance of what a Christian Socialist may be. A Socialist, of course, is a generic term. including many kinds of thinkers ...