... popular writers of light literatui-e are Rosa N. Carey, Edna Ljrall, Mrs Hungerford, John Strange Winter, Hall Caine, Thomas Hardy, Charlotte M. Yonge, Mrs Oliphant, and Miss F. Marryat. Dickens, Thackeray, Scott, Charles Reade, and George Elliot still ...

... FILS. ERNEST RENAN. HALL CAINE. PROF. JEBB. SIR WALTER BESANT. PIERRE LOTI. ALPHONSE DAUDBT. EDMUND GOSSE. PAUL BOURGET. THOMAS HARDY. MRS HUMPHRY WARD. EDMUND DE GONCOURT. DR. GARNETT. It will be seen that the list includes many fomoas names from other ...

... independent review upon the Life of Cardinal Manning, Mr Johnson, who wrote but latel, an eloquent appreciation of The Art of Thomas Hardy, and has contributed often to a onoe notorious quarterly, is a most devoted son of the Church, and has penned controversial ...

... consists of 71 members only. The Budget this year is likely to take an traordinary amount of time for its discussion* Mr Thomas Hardy, the novelist, has added to the commission of tho peace for Dorset. It is assorted that in 99 cases out of 100 the side ...

... book of Ecclesiastes, and I would sooner have one volmne of Browning with his cheery optimism than all the works which Thomas Hardy, Olive Schreiner, and authors of that dreary school have written. THE MANXMAN. The last novel of Mr Hall Caine, The Manxman ...

... prize, whatever it may be, is won by Mr George Meredith, and those esteemed next to him in their knowledge of woman are Mr Thomas Hardy and Mr J. M. Barrie. Hobbs, of Liberator notoriety, who in boy- hood and youth was connected with Lake-road Baptist Church ...

... show that there are now alive in tb*S country 213 persons who are over 100 years Of these 147 are women. f JLhe novels of Thomas Hardy are the subject 01 very attractive illustrations in an exhibitionot water colours and oils and of drawings in bla and white ...

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

... of His Excellency-h Concerning tight shoes, a writer asks is thera I anything more painful, except perhaps toothaohet Mr Thomas Hardy lives in the heart of his beloved Wessex, at the quaint town of Dor* Chester. The title of the forthcoming new drama Drury ...

... gossip) George Meredith, Walter Besant, Robert Buchanan, Hall Caine, and Tennyson wear beards, William Black, Rider Haggard, Thomas Hardy, J. M. Barrie, Clement Scott, and Clark Russell wear moustaches only; while Andrew Lang, Andrew Wilson, James Payn, and ...

... newspapers, suspended payment. Turin University has been closed, in con- sequence of the disorderly conduct of tht students. Mr Thomas Hardy and the Hon. Mrs Henui- ker, Lord Houghton's sister, are to collaborate a. novel. Prince Maximilian of Saxony, a nephew ...

... Blackmore, Mr Black, Mr Stevenson, Miss, Braddon, Mr Hall Caine, Mr Walter Besant, Mr Conan Doyle, Mr Marion Crawford, Mr Thomas Hardy, Mr James Payn. As evidence of the increasing value of CIty: property, it is interesting to note that at the Auction Mart ...