... 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, ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... will circulate largely. The labouring classes, said Mr. Thomas Hardy, in an interview which a representative had with him recently, are being raised by education to a marvellous extent. Mr. Hardy probably referred to his own county of Dorset; in the ...

... Augustus Austen Leigh, Sir Robert S. Ball, Sir Frederick Young, Lord Thurlow, Mr. Walter Besant, Mr. William Black, Mr. Thomas Hardy, Hon. Lyulph Stanley, Mr. Hamilton Aide, Mr. W. Clark Russell, the Rev. S. Baring-Gould, Mr. Conan Doyle, Mr. J. M. Barrie ...

... By B. Paul Neumann. (T. Fisher ljnwi,,.) COME LILE WITH ME. -` MR. BUCuANAN\'s new novel is an essay in the genre of Mr. Thomas Hardy. It is by no means a failure. Mr. Buclhanan has the gift of bright picturesque writing: lhe knows how to present his story; ...

... John Pettie, d RA., Mr. George Du Maunier, Mr. George H. 3 Boughton, ?? Mr. Colin Hunter, ?? o Mr. Edwin A. Abbey, Mr. Thomas Hardy, Mr. b William Black, Mr. S. W. Searle, Mr. A. P. Y Watt, Mr. William H. Appleton, Mr. L. W. t Bangs, Mr. G. W. Sheldon ...