... QUELBITIES OF TO-DAY. een Mr. Thomas Hardy, the novelist, owes much the to hip wife, for it Was she who persuaded hims a give up architecture for literature, who copie&is :Irat-novel and sent it to the -publisher, and who vill still atlends to til business ...

... the long cool room of the latter it was delightful to give furtive caresses to copies of the works of George Meredith and Thomas Hardy. I even opened a few volumes to see how admirably they bore the attempt of the fierce sunlight outside to get in through ...

... attendance of tho neighbouring gen- try. Amongst these were Claptaini Granvills(chilef Consptable of the County), and Mr. Thomas Hardy, thie novelist. Represontativea of mem- bers of the Royal family were also present. On the arrival of a train at Brighton ...

... by Sir.Francis Knollys,-h L Prince of Wales by Lord Churchill, and ,t the Duke of York by the l -on. .-lhrti P Keppel. Thomas Hardy, the novelist, and nu-merous country folk -wore also t present, dR HROOLEY'S AFFAIRS. d TaB SINGER -PROMOTION Y. ,iXAMINATION ...

... this? In due comrse we shall see emblazoned in the boldest ?? and Kipling, Hall and Caine, George and Meredith, Thomas and Hardy, Marie and Corelli, Marion and Crawford, Stanley and Weyman, Richard and Black. more, and so on, and so on ...

... Olticers Superannuation Bill now before l larliament. |'oLICr IENSIONS. E g The Watch Committee report that Inspector ib Thomas Hardy and Constabies Heoury Cooper and ( r Jlames Wilkins having given notice of their desire to 0 Y retire from the force, and ...

... ral Club. I tis a hv.;-length paintinz in i c's by Mliss Mt~reeszy, executed in 1823, of the tiamons9 Radical politician Thomas Hard~y, who, sascrearytoa th~e Lmndon Corresponding Socoutv, -.ass inl 1794 prosc.,uted for hrigh treason and triumphantly acquitted ...

... enough, and the homely women, too; weve even think we know precisely what they will say before e they open their mouths. Thomas Hardy and J. S. f( Fletcher have impressed us with the delights of rural h fiction ; but novelists knew better than to lay the ...

... represented by Sir Francis Kncllys, e the Prince of Wales by Lord Churchill, the Duke orf t York by the Hon. Derek Keppel. M1r Thomas e Hardy, the novelist, and nunierous county folk were also present. The Rev V. S. Busbridge, vicar of - Moreton, performed Schumann's ...

... Americaja millionaire thies~ CS Sat nd may make a bargain with the As cart the stones across the Atiaut(01 eat nat IMr. Thomas Hardy replies 'viti the argument, which others earrN o ti a t mP more drastic point. ;; t naltilliit vms sas Mr. Iardy, ou-i1 ...

... represented by Sir Francis Knollys. the Printe of Wales by Lord Churchill, the Duke of York hb' the lion. Dore- Keppel. -Mr. Thomas Hardy-. the noveli.t, anrd nutnerous country folk wvere also present. tThe 3-ev. 3. t. Buebridge. Vicar of 3Moreton, performed ...

... W. Pinero, the play which caused a tremendous amount of discus- 2ion some years ago, when Mr Thomas Hardy charged Mr Pinero with plagiarising from ?? Hardy's- novel, Far from the Madding Crowd. Mr Pinero defended himself well, and he has certainly ...