... HODGE AS I KNOW HIM. A TALK WITH MR. THOmAS HARDY. THE ridge of a noble down, dark outlined against a pale green sky; a small red house standing in its own grounds close to the ancient town ofV Casterbridge-I mean Dorchester; a little drawing-room, ...

... The Cat and the Kfngfither. STRANGE thingi bappen in Wessex, Bays Mr Thomas Hardy, and we believe him. A correspondent tells us a story which may well be the wonder of the country side. The scene is the village of Fordington, hard by Dorchester, and the ...

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... Mlessrs G. It. Peach. A. E. W. Mason, Gordon, Robert Greville, Edward Price, A. Robert Hall, AV. R. Williams, H. Langford, Thomas Hardy, A. S. Homewood, Samuel Hunt, and the Misses Ada Mellon, Mona Robin, Made- line Meredith, Mrs F. R. Vere, Frances Raymond ...

... districts where the outbreak has occurred, if the disease shrould obtain a hold the oonseqt-ences will be serious. Mr. Thomas Hardy has recently given Air. William Strafg a series of sittings for an etched portrait, the result being the most successf ...

... By LADY VIOLET GREVILLE OSCAR WI'LDE'S IOKEA MALE authors, with few exceptions, such as Balzac, Shakespeare, Thackeray, Thomas Hardy, and Alexandre Dumas have never understood women's characters. The truth is that women are inconsequent by nature, and ...

... R, DMWS ilt vairs OF late the public has had no cause to complain of neglect from its favourites. Thomas Hardy, George Mer edith, Rider Haggard, and J. M. Barrie, within the past few months have in turn captured the reading ,Aoild; and now, while the ...

... persuades and dissuades, who organises demonstrations of 100,000 or of 500,000. Schadhorstizzatois a word to treasure. Mr. Thomas Hardy the novelist has been telling something about his home and method of work to an American interviewer. If he turns out 3 ...

... brilliant and curiously learned of living critics at poetry, Theodore Watts, one of the greatest of living tale-tellers, Thomas Hardy; that incarnation of versatility atid charm, Edmund Gosse; and no less an ornament of an allied profession than Hamno ...

... assertion, and leave out the modest one. Is this allowed to be honest criticism ? The publication of a new story by Mr. Thomas Hardy, entitled I he Pursuit of the Well-belove-i, will commence in Tillotson's Syndicate il October. The articles on London ...

... his services by the pre- sentation of a testimonial. The committee consists of Mr. Holman Hunt, Mr. Edmund Gosse, Mr. Thomas Hardy, Mr. W. H. Polloccl, Mr. J. M. Barrie, Mr. A. G. Ross, and Mr. S. S. Sprigge, with Mr. Edward Clodd as secretary. It is ...

... Cliief. Mr. T. Pearson, of ! Nateby, Lancashire, is third in the class for stallions foaled in 1891 with Shire Standard. Mr. Thomas Hardy, of There 1-fall Farm. Knuts- ford, is anotherI local prize winner, being second in the Celss for fillies foaled in 1890 ...