... their gallery a series of w !ater-colours, oils, and drawings in black and a Y white by various artists of 1 Wessex, Thomas c 1 Hardy's country, the moorland country of z . South England, which, with its picturesque a g valleys, its quaint eld towns, ...

... til g feso Doewdrel E. A. Freeman, J. A. Froude, e a I1V. S. Gilbert, S. Baring Gould, Rider Hag- 6 agra: [ . G. H irton, Thomas Hardy, Joseph W-N. E. H. Lecky, Sir John Lubbock, g Ijatin 'M'carthy, George Macdonald, Cardinal : 0; 2anning, George Xerivale ...

... I saw Mr Lewis Morris (about whom a whisper ran that his chances for the Laureateship had recently gone up tenfold), Mr Thomas Hardy ; Mr Ashby- Sterry; the young novelist, Air Coulson Kernahan; the eminent woman novelist w who writes nuder the pseudonym ...

... Brownings, Hawthorne, Leighv 'Hunt. John Stuart N ill, one from George I 0 Mleredith, and others from William Morris h if ande Thomas Hardy, are some of the interest- a d j cg correspondence left by Mr Bennett. I ?? interesting letter from Sir Walter Scott, a ...

... Mr Walter Besant has been le xisaie a lkight. Otherwise should there not 01 h1lave, been Sir George Meredith and Sir oc Thomas. Hardy before Sir Walter, and are tl 'w Sot certain to have Sir William Black, h Sir James Payn, Sir Conan Doyle, Sir James. A ...

... Sir Martin Conway, Mr John Morley, Mr John Ruskin, Mr Hall Caine, Mr Rider Haggard, Mr Henry Norman, Sir Edwin Arnold, Mr Thomas Hardy, Mr R. D. Blackmore, Avr William Black, Mr Alfred Austin, and, in fact, all the prominent authors will probably be affixed ...

... writers of the day were present. Among others (writes a lady correspondent)-L during the short time I was there-I saw MIr Thomas Hardy, who returns to Dorchester next week, Mrs Henniker, Lord Houghton's much feted sister, Miss Ella Hepwortli Dixon, i Miss ...

... been born, in homes where the religious and social in- fluences were those of Nonconformity. Such names as those of Mr Thomas Hardy, Mr George Meredith, and Mr Andrew Lang are not mentioned by the author iof this article. But, then, he says en- ,pressly ...

... threatens to beconme 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 naseting of the horny- handed, or at least woaden-clogged, sup' porters of Mr Tladen. 'Many of the mea ...

... left Do Vere Gardens and sC gone abroad-in time to escape his compatriots, co say some of the latter maliciously. Mr Thomas Cl ,Hardy has left again, or is about to leave, for pi his home in Dorsetahire. Mr Lesie Stephen, G much the better for his trip ...

... sqe Wsill, i't,,J 0aztng to 'produce tht ye of ably-suttatforfamxiy couszaptien, for which N ii ?? eebrated, while . Mr 'Thomas Hardy fin 1 -gvoi ,s the drier wise of fictim SAW EdLraul ~e3rget's special brind's 1 Cr -v orhapsedrinkable-' uder i-adical ...

... Arnold, termed life will place her below Mr George Meredith. Many critics of art will place her below Mr Thomas Hardy-cortainly the Mr Thomas Hardy who has written Tess of the Id'Urbervilles. But it is unquestionable that the author of Robert Elsmere ...