... BULLOCK HALL CAINE ROBERT W. CHAMBERS Miss MARIE CORELLI F. MARION CRAWFORD Mrs. ANDREW DEAN AUSTIN DOBSON GEORGE GISSING THOMAS HARDY E. W. HORNUNG JEROME K. JEROME SIDNEY J. LOW MAARTEN MAARTENS A. E. W. MASON F. FRANKFORT MOORE E. NESBIT W. E. NORRIS ...

... Marion C Mrs. Andrev Austin Dobs George Gis8 THE WRITERS whose Work will be found in the First Volume include:- Corelli Thomas Hardy Maarten Maartens W. E. Norris rawford E. W. Hornung A. E. W. Mason Ouida r Dean Jerome K. Jerome F. Frankfort Moore Max ...

... will to-day announce the betrothal of Prince Albert, nephew of King Leopold, to the Duchess Eliza- beth of Bavaria Mr. 'Thomas Hardy is sixty years old today. Literature remarks that he has lived to see himself acknowledged as second only to Mr. Meredith ...

... the Society gave private perform- ances, and opened its second season on Novem- ber 14th auspiciously enough, when Mr. Thomas Hardy's The Three Wayfarers, and Steven- son and Henley's Macaire were produced. In the first instance, it had been the ...

... IWESSEX TALES. Ps 'Al Tihe country of Mr Thomas Hardy has found a niew hae writtr. Mr ?? Alngns is no mere Imitator. ilis he pietures, pehlips, are not such battle piecs3 as a ' Tess of the Tm bervilles, but he has studied ?? DIorYet rper'nrtry .itireately ...

... eampaigl. Si OUR BlIRTHDAY CARD. MAiR ZAPPY RBTURZ.IVS 0? TBB DA TO Mr. J. Gould, 4, Bouverie.plSce. B Lady Falmouth. Mr. Thomas Hardy. .AND TO.MORROW TO Hju:E. the Duke of York. HEt .E. Crown Princess of Denmark. H.R.H. Princess Clementine of Coburg. The ...

... statement while Gee. M. redith and Thomas Hardy are still alive. Lord Curzon is described as Viceroy of India, and, next to the President of the United States, the most re- . sponsible official in the world, and Sir Thomas Lipton is, of course, the latest ...

... Uttozeter? - Police Court in connection with the pro- secution of a gipsy for4une teller would have delighted the heart of Mr. Thomas Hardy. a 4e has told us many a good st6ry of the wise women of the west nountry, early in the century; but we hardly e~d to find ...

... intends to give four productions during the next three umonthis. They are: The Three Wayfarers, it legendtiry trifle, by Thomas Hardy; Macaire, a farce, by W B. Henley and B. L. Stevenson; Captain Brassbound's Conversion, an adventure in three acts ...

... political force, while, in the utatte of enterprise, it has no rival in the whole world. :113 the Centurp' Dcatbbcb By THOMAS HARDY I. I LEANT upon a paddock gate When shades were spectre-gray, And Winter's dregs made desolute The weakening eye of day ...

... follows: Frederic Harrison, Herbert Spencer, Pt-inco Kropytkin, George Meredith, John Morley, M.P., Professor A. R. Wal- lace, Thomas Hardy, Idari Blind, Ouida Olive Scisreiner, G. J. Holyoake, J-. M- Robes-teen, l'rofessor Beesly, Annie Beseot, M~rs. Brashlatughs ...

... court, Lord Rendell, a very large number of ?? bishops, deans, and leading Nonconformist clergy, Mr. Herbert Spencer, Mr. Thomas Hardy, and many other distinguished laymen. LOSS OF ANl ATLAETIC STZ:AMBR, A telegram from Lundy Island, dated February 24, 8 ...