... will have the faintest idea as to Mr. Hardy's meaning unless, perhaps, she happens to be the wile of a wheelwright. Another eminent novelist of to-day., Mr. W. E. Norris, is wiser in his generation than Mr. Thomas Hardy, for the autinorof Major and Minor' ...

... THE HERR V WITVES OF WESSEX.* MR. THOmAs HARDY, if we are not mistaken, was one of the novelists who raised a plaintive wail, some time ago, over the shadkleg-imprned upon their genius by Anglo-Saxon prudery. We have never felt any great sympathy with ...

... contains single novels by Mrs. Oliphant, Mr. David Christie Murray, Bret Harte, Mrs. Humphry Ward, Mr. Henry James, Mr. Thomas Hardy, and Sir Henry Cunningham; together with a few hooks of more general interest. MESSRS. CASSELL'S JAPANESE LIBRARY. The ...

... and I am designing wrappers and covers for them. The first part will contain portraits of Sir Frederick Pollock and Mr. Thomas Hardy, not on account of any inherent connection between the two, but because the drawings go well together. Also there will ...

... ill ons. ST. 13E'ITERS131 I SPRING ?? CHARLES JOHNS.TO. t llusrirtied firoox F/c oo,-rap,/is *, AN IMAAGINATIVY WVONAN ?? THOMAS HARDY. ic /11Ilsiatlel bi1' Az//ho, u//c (;00od1;un1. TlIE TOLLEMAClIES OF 1IELMING(;AM. ARTIJUR If. BEAVAN. 5 j /i.gstatedfi'on/t ...

... and adulterous love from the permissible range of subjects in Eng!ish fiction is a good thing. Mrs. Lynn Linton and Mr. Thomas Hardy think it is a bad thing; the former advocates the policy of the locked bookcase, (why should all fiction be written ...

... RBERVILLL~.` LIFE'S LITTLE IRONIES A Set of Tales, with some Colloquial Sketches, entitled A Few Crusted Characters. By THOMAS HARDY. Crown 8vo, It cloth extr'a, 6s. NOTE.-Tko, First Large Edition. SOLD OUT a, d week before puiblica~tion.. Secondc Editiont ...

... Constable.) In A Group of Noble Dames (Osgood McIlvaine and Co.), the fifteenth volume of the Wessex Novels, Mr. Thomas Hardy has gathered together half a score stories which he wrote for various periodicals six or seven years ago, based on county ...

... faith. He is consequently a fool, but a fool who is very serviceable in rough. dramas of a prinmiti\e kind. Just as Mr. Thomas Hardy loves his simpletons, like. Gabriel Oak or the Reddleman, so Mr. Harte cannot refrain tears from the Collinsons of his ...

... Simmons. But ST. PETERSBURG IN SPRING ?? CHARLES JOHNSTON. 'ars illustrated from Photograpfhs. AN IMAGINATIVE WOMAN ?? THOMAS HARDY. hiS Illustrated by Arthur Jule Goodman. Ich THE TOLLEMACHES OF HELMINGHAM. .ARTHUR H. BEAVAN. 'U111 Illustraled from ...

... shall be met by home production. IThe Science of Fiction is a symposium by Messrs. Paul Bourget, \Valter Besant, and Thomas Hardy. The first-iamed author is profound and cautious. Mr. Besant urges the claims of a school of fiction, holding that novelists ...

... phrase. To the one single passage (not a very convincing one) which the Speaker article quotes from the inevitable Mr. Thomas Hardy (the lament of Marty South over Giles Winterborne's grave in the Woodlanders) it would be easy to add dozens from other ...