... book of Ecclesiastes, and I would sooner have one volmne of Browning with his cheery optimism than all the works which Thomas Hardy, Olive Schreiner, and authors of that dreary school have written. THE MANXMAN. The last novel of Mr Hall Caine, The Manxman ...

... chastising their wives as if they could do what t bey liked with their own. As to the sale of a wife, all readers of Mr. Thomas Hardy* I clever, but unequal novel, The Mayor of Cesterbridge; will remember that suck a transaition at • country fair forms ...

... prize, whatever it may be, is won by Mr George Meredith, and those esteemed next to him in their knowledge of woman are Mr Thomas Hardy and Mr J. M. Barrie. Hobbs, of Liberator notoriety, who in boy- hood and youth was connected with Lake-road Baptist Church ...

... and the trenele-111.1._:akY, ••••••• jun of Thomas Hardy Itudyard WM neisette than grace. Mit what's, 3 , r. eret, • Oight beertaliCa. •P••••• feign' Ohs.i tam. , mm „ ? mmy , editor. tato Kipling, Hardy* with I r• -my aaele . riewirra at leeeth be ...

... show that there are now alive in tb*S country 213 persons who are over 100 years Of these 147 are women. f JLhe novels of Thomas Hardy are the subject 01 very attractive illustrations in an exhibitionot water colours and oils and of drawings in bla and white ...

... Plymouth, in ballast, with no crew on board, ha* been picked up and taken la there by a crew from the *toamer Delta. Mr Thomas Hardy, th* novelist, who ha* been •pending a holiday with the Lord-Lieutenant In Dublin .has been utilising bis leisure by c ...

... Bettacy, M.A. The support has been obtained of Lord Tennyson, Mr Rudyard Kipling, Mr J. M. Barrie, Mr George Meredith, Mr Thomas Hardy, Marquis of Lome, Archdeacon Farrar, the Right Hon. John Morley, M.P., Mr Swinburne, Mr Lewis Morris, Mr Henry Irving, ...

... of the Intcrtmtional Library, tranvlator in the I tnercial department of the Board of Trade) has been I staying with Mr. Thomas Hardy, the novelist, Dorchester, and is likely to dedicate his new work to the author of M Tees.” The book in question is likely ...

... of His Excellency-h Concerning tight shoes, a writer asks is thera I anything more painful, except perhaps toothaohet Mr Thomas Hardy lives in the heart of his beloved Wessex, at the quaint town of Dor* Chester. The title of the forthcoming new drama Drury ...

... gossip) George Meredith, Walter Besant, Robert Buchanan, Hall Caine, and Tennyson wear beards, William Black, Rider Haggard, Thomas Hardy, J. M. Barrie, Clement Scott, and Clark Russell wear moustaches only; while Andrew Lang, Andrew Wilson, James Payn, and ...

... newspapers, suspended payment. Turin University has been closed, in con- sequence of the disorderly conduct of tht students. Mr Thomas Hardy and the Hon. Mrs Henui- ker, Lord Houghton's sister, are to collaborate a. novel. Prince Maximilian of Saxony, a nephew ...

... Blackmore, Mr Black, Mr Stevenson, Miss, Braddon, Mr Hall Caine, Mr Walter Besant, Mr Conan Doyle, Mr Marion Crawford, Mr Thomas Hardy, Mr James Payn. As evidence of the increasing value of CIty: property, it is interesting to note that at the Auction Mart ...