... the Painter-Etcher. A Practical Treatise. ?? Hugh Paton. (London: Raithby, Law- erence & Co.) . The Tmrumpet-Major. By Thomas Hardy. q The Wessex Novels. Vol. IX. (London: I Osgood, M'Ilvaine & Co.) I Born to be a Sailor; or, A House on the Roll- s log ...

... inn at Burford Bridge, at no distance , from Mr Meredith's house. The guests of the evening were Mr George Meredith, . Mr Thomas Hardy, Mr Theodore Watts, Mr v Edmund Gosse, Mr Wm. Sharp, and Mr Austen. I . Among the diners who are devotees of the great ...

... their gallery a series of w !ater-colours, oils, and drawings in black and a Y white by various artists of 1 Wessex, Thomas c 1 Hardy's country, the moorland country of z . South England, which, with its picturesque a g valleys, its quaint eld towns, ...

... humour, and reomance. Mr Barrie is m00ce In. pai telligible to the general than Gleorge Meredith lack less Pessimistio than Thomas Hardy ; less cynical ;oft than Kipling; and compared with all of these an11 for Interpreter of more familiar types and emotions ...

... Mr Walter Besant has been le xisaie a lkight. Otherwise should there not 01 h1lave, been Sir George Meredith and Sir oc Thomas. Hardy before Sir Walter, and are tl 'w Sot certain to have Sir William Black, h Sir James Payn, Sir Conan Doyle, Sir James. A ...

... Sir Martin Conway, Mr John Morley, Mr John Ruskin, Mr Hall Caine, Mr Rider Haggard, Mr Henry Norman, Sir Edwin Arnold, Mr Thomas Hardy, Mr R. D. Blackmore, Avr William Black, Mr Alfred Austin, and, in fact, all the prominent authors will probably be affixed ...

... writers of the day were present. Among others (writes a lady correspondent)-L during the short time I was there-I saw MIr Thomas Hardy, who returns to Dorchester next week, Mrs Henniker, Lord Houghton's much feted sister, Miss Ella Hepwortli Dixon, i Miss ...

... the shrine of Thomas Carlyle, to wire Mr W. T. Stead, Kennaquhair, bi Borderland, for the loan of his familiar spirit, }r Julia. But perhaps I ought not to wonder, a] for, doubtless, the matter had all been arranged t, between Thomas himself and Julia ...

... William Hardy Cozens-Hardy, J.P., of Letheringseat Hall, Norfolk, who died on April 29, was proved at the Norwich District Registry on June 29 by Clement William Hardy Cozens- Hardy, Herbert Ha[rdy Cozens-Hardy ...

... at tables loaded with good things. Mr John Harper, jun., occupied the chair, and beside him were Mr John Harper, sen.; Mr M'Hardy of Dromblair, Sir Atkins, the manager.; Xr.K. M. Simpson, the secretary of the company,-,- l M James Davidson, commission merchant ...

... annual meeting of the Banchory District Nursiug Association was held yesterday afternoon. Sir Thomas Burnett, Bert. of Leys, in the chair. There were also ?? M'Hardy, Rev. .Mr Hall, Rev, WN. Cowan, Mr G. G. Sharp, Mr Black- laws, and a large number of ladies ...

... Mlr Swift Macneill, Mr George Wyuidlam, Mr Paulton, Mr Field (Dublin), Mr John i)illon, Mr D. A. Thomas, Mr M. Healy, Major Baries (who defeated Mr Keir Hardie), and many others, the total number sworn in during the two days at luncheon time being 475. After ...