... banjo, and is capable of getting as much music out of that instrument as it will yield under the severest pressure. Mr. Thomas Hardy, who takes a prominerL place in the front rank of English novelists, was born in 1840 in Dorsetshire and commenced his ...

... Middle, Thomas David Merthyrmawr, no tender; New- castle Higher, Thomas David Newcastle Lower, no tender Newton Nottage, William Ash Pen- coed, Thomas Doddridge Pyle, John Richards Southerndown, Thomas Hardy, senior: Tytheg- stone Higher, ...

... MEETING. On Wednesday evening, hundreds of persons assembled in the open air at a spot near the Post- office, to hear Mr Thomas Hardy, agent for the Liberal candidate. It was soon evident that many Conservatives from Holt and Farndon were in the crowd, ...

... Lady Macgregor, of Hampton Court, widow of Sir John Macgregor, and youngest and only sur- viving daughtor of Captain Sir Thomas Hardy, who was flag captain to Lord Nelson at the time of the gallant hero's death, is suffering from a severe attack of influenza ...

... present—The Rev F. W. Edmondes (chairman), Mr R. Thomas, Pyle (vice-chairman), Rev H. Lewis, Messrs W. Hopkin, J. Williams, W. Howell (Pencoed), M. Jenkins, W. Jenkins (Llsnmihangel), J. Thomas (Blaenogwr), G. Thomas, D. Vaughan, E. John, Edward Lewis, Wm. Howells ...

... to the with Whom the reser Is • sada Three Out was royal Peter so premier ea or AM t It will yield osier the eraser Mr. Thomas Hardy, takes plass M the front teak of English was ban la 1840 sad kL manor an arohitaat. first llterary work publiabad la 1871 ...

... events, the articles have for the wet part a Haden* air, as if the half reseeded the distrastios from oesugellien. Mr. Thomas Hardy he not sere about the stage because the nowadays asses little more thee smd Malet thinks it ie toil awe% to story mauled ...

... Professor Hiram Corson, Mr. William Watson, Mr. Theodore Watts, and Mr. G. B. Shaw. Lord Tennyson. Mr. George Meredith, Mr. Thomas Hardy, Mr. Walter Bement. Mr. Rider Haggard, and many others wrote regretting their absence. In the meeting was exhibited a tablet ...

... 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 ...

... will contain a fine portrait of Canon Allan Smith, vicar of Swansea, and a paper by the editor on Church Work in Wales. Thomas Hardy, the novelist, began his career as an architect in Dorchester, and his first pub- lished work was an essay on the use of ...

... Bettany, 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 Lorne, Archdeacon Farrar, the Right Hon. John Morley, M.P., Mr Swinburne, Mr Lewis Morris, Mr Henry Irving ...

... talk of chastising/ their wit.. as if they could do they with their owe: As to the sale .4 • wile, all mailer, of Mr. Thomas Hardy' clover. but unequal mayor of Contiwbniir. will remember that a transaction at • constry fair forms the central upon which ...