... had not paid sufficient income-tax has sent the Chancellor of the Exchequer banknotes to the value of £50. The house of Thomas Hardy, the novelist, in Dorsetshire, is built on the site of Roman graveyard, and the driv ...

... was announced yesterday Miss Robina F. Hardy, a well-known Kdiuburgh stor* writer. Mi* Hardy was the daughter oi the lata Mr Thomas Hardy, surgeon-dentist in Edinburgh, and grand-daughter of the late Rev. Hardy, minister the High Church, ...

... Blackmore, Mr Biack, Mr Stevenson, Miss Braddon, Mr Hall Caine, Mr Walter Besant, Mr Conan Doyle, Mr Marion Crawford, Mr Thomas Hardy, Mr James Payne. There is, however, said to be practically very little difference in the sums to all included in the list ...

... A GEORGIAN LYING IN STATE. A letter, dated January, 1725, from Sir Thomas Hardy to Robert, one of the great Pitt family then resident in Bath, and printed in the report of the Historical Manuscript Commission, gives interesting account of the lying in ...

... Joseph Thomson, the eminent explorer, whose health we are glad to say is considerably restored. “The Bookman” says:—Mr Thomas Hardy is understood to be giving himself a rest from fiction. He has encouraged by the reception of his little sk etch at Terty’s ...

... , threatens to become deadly dull. No doubt there is something idyllic, if not in the old, at anyrate in the modern or Thomas Hardy sense, in a large meeting of the horny-handed, or at least wooden-clogged, sup- porters of Mr Maden. of the men seats quietly ...

... the Rev. W. T. P. Cullen, a-sisted by the Rev. Jam S3 Mackintosh, Desk ford, and the Rev. Alexander Wilson,Ythan Wells, Thomas Mac Hardy, M.B..C.M.,Cullen, BELLA, daughter John Thomson, Cullen. At Hong-Kong, the iBth inst., by the Rev. John Chalmers, LL ...

... after all in London in the stage vérsion of “ Tess of the D’ Urbervilles.” She has been in negotia- tion agam with Mr. Thomas Hardy for the pro- of tvs dramaticeed is really very eager to prodace it, though there are some part of Clare. version with which ...

... Caine, Alfred Austin, John Strange Winter, Rider Haggard, Grant Allen, R. D. Blackmore, Charlotte Yonge, W. S. Gilbert, Thomas Hardy, and even Sir John Lubbock and Professor Huxley were among those who were induced to send to this admir- ing and appreciative ...

... examination held at the close of last year’s technical classes, these having been awarded by the examiners as follows—l Thomas Hardy, 2 W. A. Dawson, 3 Robert Hay. The usual votes of thanks to the erformers, chairman, and ethers brought a very pleasant ...

... Thomas Hardy's earliest printed literary production is stated to have been an essay on coloured brick architecture, by whicn he gained the medal of the Institute of Architects. The Postal Frauds a Woman. —At the | Old Bailey yesterday Mary Agnes Illitigworth ...

... dropping of his h’s, was little different from his fellow members. He became merged in the respectability of a top-hat. Mr Thomas Burt, who came next, is quiet and un- obtrusive, and rarely speaks on any but purely labour questions, As to Mr Broadhurst ...