... Lobelia Maltman, the beloved wife of Alexander 111'Laaehisn..deeply regretted. Ram—At Pit teotiao, Cried, on the 21st inst., Thomas Hardy, infant son of W. 13. MArill• Reid, and six months. Pd'Aer —At Cried, on 21st led, Christina Beat, cr u et of John M'Ars ...

... life, misery. and death of Mudge, the field worker, may very profitably be compared with similar scenes in the work of Mr. Thomas Hardy. It will show Jefferies eNcelled in knowledge of country life as much as Mr. I lardy does in literary skill and narrative ...

... NATIONAL OBSERVER RUDYARD KIPLING. W. E. HENLEY. R. L. STEVENSON. THOMAS HARDY. A. C. SWINBURNE. J. M. BARRIE. HON. GEO. CURZON, M.P. JOSEPH PENNELL. GEO. WYNDHAM, M.P. JAMES PAYN. SIR FREDERICK POLLOCK. J. MACLAREN COBBAN. SIR H MAXWELL, M.P. HUGH HALIBURTON ...

... 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 ...

... etticil in the Anglo-Saxon neiehbourtioed of Norwich. Baring Gould is a Devonian wth the Cornish, that is, Saxon and Celt. Thomas Hardy is of a French family who migrated from Jersey. with a remote trace of Irish blond iv Of the twelve persons whose sorest ...

... 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 ...

... with which our readers are already familiar. Illustrations—Portrait of Professor Minto, and siews of the residences of Mr Thomas Hardy and Mr Rudyard Kipling. RECEIVED from the Drummond Depot, Stirling, a new packet— Chepstow Chips, or O'er True Tales. ...

... the autumn. Matlock’s new volume veraea, , being short. One piece . the author of Songs Before Sunrise. Lionel Johnson’s Thomas Hardy,” will P“W|Aed the next fortnight. It to beginning of Ja avoidable cause the which Mr William Strang was preparing lor ...

... Blackmore, Mr Black, Mr Stevenson, Miss Braddon, Mr Hall Caine, Mr Walter Rcsant, Mr Conan Doyle, Mr Marion Crawford, Mr Thomas Hardy, Mr James Payn. There is, however, said practically very little difference in the sums paid all included in the list. For ...

... to anyone such undoubted appreciation and knowledge the former Princess Royal. Mr Lionel Johnson, the biographer of Mr Thomas Hardy, is a clever Irishman, who has a ■rowing popularity in literary circles. instance this to be found in the fact that he ...

... Life mid Work. The Rev. Thomas Hardy has made hie subject very readable, but it emus to me his knowledge of the Highland tiokers is very Mr Hardy asks hie large range of renders when Is Scotland the tinker not found? Mr Hardy's southern horizon apparently ...