... fantastic dry point etching, Adoration of the Shepherds. Mr. Strang's skill in portraiture is seen in half-lengths ot Thomas Hardy, Esq., Cosmo Monkhouse, Esq., and ' Robert Louis Stevenson, all distinctly characterised and executed, with little ...

... would read The Monks of Thelema, byi Mr. Walter Besant, and, having done that, would peruse certain writings of Mr. Thomas Hardy, he would not only improve his temper, but see that the difficulties of the village lie not with the coercion of the ...

... Stevenson, Stevenson himself was in the genesis of his authorship largely influenced by George Meredith. George Meredith and Thomas Hardy were both instances of men possessed of great powers., who, notwithstanding, had failed to hold the public like some of ...

... Veto Bi)l, and to-morrow he intends to ask the Prenier whether the Rouse is to consider that the measure Is dropped, MIxr Thomas Hardy made hie first essay as a damatle lact night at Terry's Theatre, in a one act plece, entitled, The Three Wayfarerm, foundcd ...

... Arthur and Lady Hayter will receive a party next week during Ascot Kares, at Sonthill Park, their place near b3racknell. Mr. Thomas Hardy spent the whole of last week at Dublin Castle as the guest of Lord Houghton, who is amongst his most enthusiastic admirers ...

... Editor's preface, such names as George Meredith, Rudyard Kipling, Walter Besant, Grant Allen, I Quiller Couch, Hi Ouida, Thomas Hardy, Mrs , W. A. Clifford, Rider Haggard, to mention only I a few, are an ample guarantee that those respon- sible for the ...

... Sir Archi- bald Alison, Vice-Admiral Colonib, Rear-Admiral Fitzs- rot, the Lieutenant-Governor of the Isle of Mar, Mr. Thomas Hardy, Mr. Austin Dobson, Mr. J. M. Barre, Mr. Henry Arthur Jones, the Dean of Christ Church, and several members of the House ...

... the same evening. The pilgrims return to London on March 3rd, in the evening, The annual Dorset hiring fair, of which Mr Thomas Hardy gives a vivid description in one of his novels, was held at Dorchester yesterdsy. There was no political demonstration ...

... non-attecdai,c? from the Rev, J. Mursell. Mr. Wildgoose (Matloolt), Mr. Court, Mr. Robert Mellor (Not- tinghan ), and Mr. Thomas Hardy (Kegworth), the Chair- man said lbsy w re met together that night to honour someone who had been enganed in a good work ...

... which came off at Terry's Theatre, did not prove the success anticipated. The authors of the plays in question are Mr Thomas Hardy, author of Far from the Madding Crowd, and those Wessex tales, which have made his name fjmous as a novelist; Mr J. ...

... produced at the St. James's Theatre in the December of 1881, Mr THOMA&S HARDY wrote to the papers to say that, with the assistance of Mr COsrYNS CARR, he had prepared a version of his (Mr HARDY'S) novel Far from the Madding Crowd. This version was submitted ...

... as to the site of the city forgotten by Cook, neglected by Murray. Mirs. HE. W. Preston contributes a critical essay on Thomas Hardy. A special feature of the number is Mr. C. E. S. Wood's Famous Indians, with portraits of Indian chiefs from Medallions ...