... generally one or two novels running through the London papers, and though he has hardly attained the height of Hall Caine or Thomas Hardy bepossessea a vigour which must always keep him in the front rank. One forgets in his Philistia, For Mamie's Sake, and ...

... NOVELS AND NOVELISTS, A new book from the pen of that delightful novelist, Thomas Hardy, is always welcome to the English reader, as may be gauged by the fact that a fortnight has sufficed to exhaust the first 1 euiDion ot The Well Beloved. It is a work ...

... commands the leavings of her table to be carefully collected for the Little Sisters of the Poor. Mr Hall Came, like Mr Thomas Hardy, was originally an architect, and his firetliteraryeffostft were made in the columns of the Builder. The Glasgow bailies ...

... possesses a oolleotion of old Greek advertisements printed on leaden plates which show that the practioe it very ancient. Mr Thomas Hardy has under consideration the project of dramatising his novel Teas, with a view to the impersonation of the leading character ...

... in Wales which has taken this extreme measure of precaution. The gifted authoress found herself banned in company with Thomas Hardy. Three Llanpumpsaint boys in the persons of Revs. Gwynoro Davies (Barmouth), Ceitho Davies (Milford Haven), and Mr Timothy ...

... in their dens are Grant Allen, Walter B.sant, Mark Twain, Frank Stock- ton, Robert Barr, Hall Caine, James Lowell, and Thomas Hardy. The frst eisteddfod ever held in South Africa took place at Natal, on the 26th and 27th of December last, and appears ...

... . The Emperor William panal is to be henceforth the name of the Baltic Canal. Mr Keir Hardie's absence from London is to the very serious illness of Mrs Keir Hardie. On Sunday Prince Edward Albert Christian George Andrew Patrick David of York reached ...

... the times. Slojd instruction and cooking classes are the latest additions to the system of education in their district. Thomas Hardy, the novelist, h -.gaii his career as an architect in Dorchester, and his first pub- lished work was an e&y on the use ...

... Edwin Arnold's The Light of Asia. appeared in 1879, however, and we must not forget each names as John Richard Greene, Thomas Hardy, Philip Bourke Marsbon. Lewis Morris, John Morley, Mrs Humphrey Ward, Walter Pater, Sir John Lubbock, J. H. Shorthouse ...

... aooonnb; Cbarles Russell in painting nautical and Rider Haggard African adventures. Maxwell Grey, Grant Allen, James Payne, Thomas Hardy, Louis Stephenson, Ian McLarcn, J. M. Barrie, Hall Caine, Walter Betav.t:, Mrs Oliphant, aud many others must bo passed ...

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

... Evaos, Mr Spencer, and Mt Hooper — Peter Cassidy, who was last week arrested as a vagrant in Cardiff, and gave his name as Thomas Hardy, was brought Qp in custody and charged with being a person under police supervision, and with faiKng to report his coming ...