... appeared in the PaU Mall Gazette. I suppose I have interviewed more novelists, English and American, than anyone else. Thomas Hardy, Grant Alien, Hall Caine, Mark Twain, Stockton, and Howells have all FURNISHED ME WITH DELIGHTFUL COPY. I have interviewed ...

... by-the-bye, a fine concert hall has just been completed at the far end. I was pleased to see that the admirable reprints of Mr Thomas Hardy, Mr William Black, Mr R. D. Blackmore, and Mr W. C. Russell, whereby Messrs Sampson Low & Co. have conferred a boon upon ...

... now, out 6f print. HOW THOMAS HARDY BECAME 'A NOVELIST. t ;. - Mr. Thomas Hardy had as hard a fight as any man makp his 'way in literature, and the way was not made pleasanter to him by his modest, want of faith in himself. Mr Hardy was ...

... believe that we are now ‘without a single living novelist of the front rank.’ And while have Mr George Meredith and Mr Thomas Hardy, it incorrect to say that 1 everyone is afraid to let himself S), to offend the conventions, or to raise a sneer, at probably ...

... minuteness. .H« can put enormous number of words to * pace, and he is resisting natural when Ks lines are far apart. Mr Thomas Hardy writes a more professional hand, and it does not surprise one to hear that bn was brought an architect. Mr «H M. writes ...

... even there failure should await him. He had previously SHOWN APTITUDE FOR THE PEN, now he drifted into it, according to Mr Thomas Hardy, as men drift into drink, crime, and other forms of degradation. Then commenced days of misery, in Paris, hopeless, unendurable ...

... every line of the dry point etching of Mr W- Wright, there is the restraint that tells “Mrs Thomson,” “Dr Joachim,” and Thomas Hardy ”' The Ballad of the Barth Fiend, written and illustrated by himself, proves his Tereatility, and there are hours of enjoyment ...

... damage to property and ihous. by road and railway, rtS from many parts the country. one of Hardy’s Tales.— before long, to bring !i» . „ of oneof Mr Thomas Hardy s « The little piece will probably twenty minutes. tt\v\.ys AFRICA.-The British Govem- RAll- ...

... shine out brilliantly among the luminaries of literature, he must needs be a specialist. J. M. Barrie. R. L. Stevenson. Thomas Hardy, Quiller Couch, and Kipling are the most striking figures in the new departure, and their methods are being adopted hosts ...

... its kind. Since am on the subject of DB3IKABLE REPRINTS I wish to recommend anew the admirable reissue of the novels of Thomas Hardy and William Black, —H. D. Black more will presently be added the list, —which comes from Messrs Sampson'Low & 00. The- ...

... and Rudyard Kipling and Marion Crawford are retained, but George Meredith and W. C. Russell are discarded in favour of Thomas Hardy and Walter Besant. The Newcastle programme is a compound fearful and wonderful a« the political document the same name ...

... mountainous waves, the rocks ahead, the fate inevitable. No better climax has ever been worked up in the history of fiction. Thomas Hardy is dependent upon his Exmoor, relentlessly does keep it where it belongs—m the background. Still, even in “Teas the Urbervillea ...