... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... services: Mrs. Ridley, Mademoiselle de Labrosse, Miss Shelter-, the Iioue. I-I. Trefuisis, Mr. Alan MlacKinnon, and others. Mr. Thomas Hardy is said to be giving himself a rest from fiction. IHle has been encouraged by the reception of his little sketch at Terry's ...

... possible to the literature of the day. While such writers as Dr. CONAN DOYLE, Lady COLIN CAMPBELL, Mr WALTER H. POLLOCK, Mr THOMAS HARDY, and Mr J. M. BARRIE are found in the ranks of contributors to our stage, it is clear that the English drama is not the ...

... prisoners, and I will find them law. Robert Watt was executed for the supposed design to assemble a General Convention. Thomas Hardy, the shoe- mak er ; Hoarne Tooke, the wit and scholar; Holeroft, and others were arraigned on charges of high, treason ...

... development of ocean steam navigation. HARDY, T1IOrAS. A Laodicean; or, the Castle of the De Stancys: a Sto7y of To-day. (Sampson Low, Marston, and Co.) 8vo, cloth. Pp. 374. Price 2s. 6d. A new and cheaper edition. HARDY, THOMAS. TWo int a ToWer.: a Rom1a4n-ce ...

... the process of dis- tilling at Mitcham. Miss Sprules, the sturdy gentlewoman in question, should delight the heart of Mr. Thomas Hardy. From six o'clock in the morning, when business begins, to late eventide, she is the head and soul of the concern, and ...

... even 500,000 persons, including the wives and children-that is Mr. Thomas Mann s estimate-who are without Waork from week to week or in any single week' The supposition on which Mr, Hardie bases his refusal is extravagant gnd grotesque. That there are too ...

... -Wjiilam Drury Nathaniel Drury-Lowe, of Locko Park, Esq. Dxrosoiixnu.-Wifliam Lethbridge, of Wood, Souh Tvaw- ton, Feq. DoRSE ?? Thomas Brinsley Sheridan, of Frampton Court, Esq. DoseAIL-Edward Joicey, of WhinneyHouse, LowFell, 3ateohead-on-Tyne, Req. Essax ...

... GARDENING. SOME HARDY SHRUBS.-HOW very freo-blooming just now is the laurustinus-a well.known hardy shrub, the which, however,. sometimes gets hard bit when we have very severe weather, but that is very seldom. Even then if cut hard back below the frosted ...

... L1ABOUR AND_LIBEZALISM. COMPLIMENTARY DINNER TO MR. BURT. Mr. Thomas Burt, MI.P., was entertained at dinner at the Assembly Rooms, Newcastle, a few days ago, by the members of the Northumberland Miners' Associa. tion, when an address was presented to ...