... loi.g-serviec competition. Miss Annie Macdonell has written the first volume cf the now Contemporary Writers Series on Mr Thomas Hardy. Miss Macdonell is the daughter of the late Mr James Macdonell, of the Times., whose biography Dr. Robertson Micoil wrote ...

... A clear, natural complexion is becom- ing a rarity even with quite young girl*. Do noelists write themselvesont ? Mr Thomas Hardy thinks not. He believes that, if he liked, a man conld go on writing till his physical strength gave out. Moat men have ...

... Irish Viceroy and Mr Thomas Hardy, tlie Wcs.rex aovelist, is illustrated in a striking manner by tbe decision of the Honourable Mrs Ilenniker, Lord Houghton's si.-tr-r, to dedicate her forth- coming volume of short stories to Mr Hardy. Fhe dibtingui-hed ...

... lioth to thrash the ferret | and to send it in chase of many more rabbits of ter j it had learnt to behave itself. aaa Mr Thomas Hardy, the famous novelist, is a rather short, slight man, of about fifty years of age, with a brown moustache (he used to wear ...

... in the Liberal interest against Mr Keir Hardie, M.P. Mr Hutchinson, while I declining to give a detlnite answer to the invita- • tion for a day or two. said tiiat out of tit', important : divisions Mr Keir Hardie h:.d been altsent 54S times, winch certainly ...

... SHOCKING SUICIDE NEAR DARLINGTON. Last night Coroner Proud held an inquest at Hitrhside House, near Heighington, on the body of Thomas -Minpson (. r >sj. a cowkeeTK-.r, who died on Wednesday Irom injuries supjxised to have been self-inflicted on the previous ...

... Kir-son, Hull, I; It) Thomas I'aiker a. Martin. .. v . o; Gamaliels, Mason. Colcl* -ster. c; Alert. McLean, Whitby. 0; Tin-mas Strait -n, Keatherstone. Whitby, c. WKST lIAKTLSPDDL. Vkk. vvl.s. August i7.— K.llingworths, Hardy, Loii'los^ 1: Hathersage ...

... ventured out yet. Mr Keir Hardie is a man independent in many waya, especially in the views he takes of things in generaL He has become the editor of a newspaper. Newspapers, like families, are easy things to start. Mr Hardie, how- ever, believes in hims ...

... Hul: wheat ; Tyne, Backet. Wisbeach, wheat; Charity s, Meaii London, .scrap iron ; Saltburn a, balk; a, Bilbao, io ; Oak, Hardy, Tyne, purple ore ; Tay ■), Wilson, Aberdeen, pig iron ; MensarusJ}. Lacack, 'Bilbao, io ; Barbarian •- Cook, Dundee, 1 ; Aberforth ...

... Leg- horn, via Tyne, i. HARTI.KPOOL, Arrivals, .July y. Mary Ann McKay, loiner. l-owdo«, chalk; Amelia, W'aid, Scarborough; Thomas and v~.«. Cox. Scarliorough; 9AUa H., Holmes. Ipswich; i:iw«, A-.im.ire. West Hartlepool: City of Cadi a a, t \rroi. Bristol ...

... Spray s, Sinton, i'crtacy, J ; Tee— laic s, Crosby, Kedwel'ey, bricks and clay ; Dioae a, Jordan, Stockton, part cargo ; (23) Thomas, Vandel, Sveaborg, 1 ; Anna s, Rylinder, Tyne, part cargo ; t— dnov „ Williams, Bilbao, iron ore; Caledonia s, Stephens, ...

... Hansen. Hamburg. g cargo exportation; Dalleeattie i, Bell, Oxelosund, ore; i -lentilt s. Scrogie, Aberdeen, part cargo: Oak. Hardy, Tyne, wheat; Sixty-six s, Truefilt, Louden; Heron s. fox, London; Clio s, Rea, HuU; Vigilant s, i.allatfhsr. rayport-all 1; ...