... Is woman never to have a second chance ? May a mana lead-a doable life, while a woman falls irretrievably t Later Mr. Thomas Hardy faced the problem of A Visit in Tessof the D'Urbervilles, which he called The Story of i Pure Woman. Indeed, it is ...

... Press, edited, with introduction and notes, by Professor Hull, of Cornell. Mr. W. L. Courtney is writing a monograph on Thomas Hardy for Messrs. Greening's -English Writers of To-day series. Messrs. A. C. Swin- bilnne, George Meredith, W. E. Henley, A ...

... Barchester, through Anthony Trollope's novels, and as we are with Castorbridge and Wessex through the guid. ance of Mr. Thomas Hardy. Several of the per- sonages in the new Chronicles have appeared in John Orlebar and Calmshire Folk. but only in a ...

... character and healthy narra- tines, and as such they will always find a place en a bookshelf alongside Thackeray, Mereditb, and Thomas Hardy. The new edition is a marvel of neatness and cheapness. Messrs. Cassell & Company, Limited, have just issued the Life ...

... ideas, its term of existence is fast reich- ing an end. An interesting chapter is The 'Irial I Trip of a Cruiser, and Mr. Thomas Hardy c'o- tinues his serial, Hearts Insurgent, as also does Mr. Harding Davis, The Princess A.. . e. Other well-written ...

... 'y causion the contributors entertained Mr. Smith. : A tragedy in real life lirs beem engaging the at- as tention of Mr. Thomas Hardy, w-ho is visiting Switserland, accompanied, by M;s. Rardy. The : mysteriouts disppearaee of Mr. J. H Cooper. of Reigate ...

... recollectitirs' of tlie ?? r Lbois do C inte, page andi secretarv of .lnt-n of Are. The serial tale. ' Heart s Iuiirgeat,' by Thomas Hardy passes throug h additional chapters. The short staties, as usIual. constitute. a feature. and there iare several poemis ...

... LiTERARY GOSSIP. Mr. Thomas Hardy's new book, The Pursuit of tile Well-Beloved, will be ready for issue in the Uniform edition of his works by Messrs. Sampson Low & Co. by the end of the year. Mr. Hardy is said to be exercising considerable revision ...

... books read Ha by Queen Victoria, but it has been stated that she Le; ha~s read seine of the novels of William Black, by Thomas Hardy, and Edna Lyall, and in 1192 c ,Ba' cepted the wh, ole set of the novels of Marie Corelli. twi Mr. F. Marion Craw'ford ...

... LITERARY GOSSIP. e The Rev. E. X. Hardy, the author of How to rbe Happy though Married,. is about to transfer binf Li official duties to Dublin. Mr. Hardy, who is one of a the chaplains of H. M . feet, scored his first success L- in the book referred ...

... LITERARY. GOSSIP, Mr. Thomas Hardy sov.^ he sketched the story of The Well-Beloved many- years before it' saw the light in serial form, five years ago. He 'as, then ,comparatively a young man and interested in the Platonic idea, but he admits that the ...

... The authors S dealt with include Emerson, Carlyle, Robert f Browning, George Eliot, George Macdonald, Mrs. Humphrey Ward, Thomas Hardy, and George t Meredith, and there is a chapter on the theology of the Scottish school of fiction. Of Tenny- son, Dr. Law ...