... 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 ...

... published in some three weeks or so, gives account of his journey last winter to Akaum, Abyssinia. The Jlhenctum states that Mr Thomas Hardy and the Hou. Mrs. Henniker are collaborating in the writing of a short story entitled The Spectre of the Real,” which will ...

... entitled “ Becky,” by . J. M. Barrie, in which Miss Janet Acharch will y Becky The Sharp and Mr. will Charrin, ajor y be Thomas Hardy and Conan Doyle; while Mr. W. K.Clifford will collaborate with Mr. Walter Herries Pollock. That we shall have an of dramatic ...

... 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 ...

... include talks with President Harrison, Mark Twain, James Russell Lowell, Oliver Wendell Holmes, W. D. Howells, J. A. Froude, Thomas Hardy, Cardinal Manning, &c. The number of Great Thoughts for the current month well sustains the high reputation it has acquired ...