... THOMAS HARDY CENTENARY Provisional arrangements for the celebration of the Hardy Centenary on Sunday, June 2nd, are announced. The events arranged will take place on Hardy's birthday. First there will be a special service at Stinsford Church— Mellstock ...

... Thomas Hardy and the Stage. At one time Mr. Thomas Hardy had serious Ithoughts of devoting himself to dramatic author. ahip. He is an en.thusiastio play-goer, and at one time took a flat in London for three or four months of the year so that he might ...

... Mr. Thomas Hardy. Since the death of George Meredith, Mr. Thomas Hardy has been the doyen of English letters. That he should yesterday have followed the example of his fellow-Victorian, Mr. Watts- Dunton, in setting wedding bells a-dancing, is surely ...

... WISOEX AND THOMAS HARDY. The Wage= of Romance. by Sherron. (Chapman & Rail, Ltd.) 1902. __- Thom as Hardy at his best unquestionably a man of genius; but he is not always at his best. Between his finest creations and some others the difference is immenee: ...

... Mr. Thomas Hardy. caught by the title of a novel. *“ Under the Greenwood Tree.” For no other reason than that his own name stared him in the face, he heught the book to while away a railway journey. The result was that he promptly commis sioned the author ...

... THOMAS HARDY DORM JUNE 2, 1840. DIED JAN. 11, 1028. Dorchester was not represented at Westminster Abbey. This is due to the fart that sine ultaneounly with the burial a memorial service took place at St. Peter's, Dorihrster. Mr. Hardy had no association ...

... THOMAS HARDY MONUMENT, 'Hie hewn granite monument erected American admirers of Thomas Hardy near Ins birthplace at Higher Bockharopton, near Dorchester, will bo unveiled on April 16th Professor J. 1,. Lowes, of Harvard University. The place of ...

... THOMAS HARDY AND MUSIC. In the recently published biography Thomas Hardy, written his wi*dow, mention is made of his love of music in his boyhood days. At the age of twelve he already a .violinist of some skill. Playing village weddings and dances was ...

... IN MEMORY OF THOMAS HARDY. With the interest from the £l,OOO it has obmined from the sale of Hardy MSS., the Society he the Preservation of Ancient Buildings propses to repair old Dorset buildings as a memorial to the great novelist. a beginning it has ...

... THOMAS HARDY AT 7%. Mr. Thomas Hardy. 0.M., who is to-day. has belief in the influence of locality on literary work. For the pact 30 years has resided near his beloved birthplace—Dorchester—and to that fact ascribes much his sneeww. To maintain his powers ...

... —Thomas Hardy. (The Maiden's Pledge.) She went her way across the fields, sometimes above the fog, sometimes below it, not much perplexed by its presence except when the track was so indefinite that it ceased to be a guide to the next stile. The dampness ...

... A THOMAS HARDY NIGHT. This evening's progiamme is of the light and bright variety and includes Grace and Vivian Worth, the popular vocal duatists, and Mr Bret Hayden,. thc well-known entertainer, with the Station Orchestra, conducted by Mr. T. H. Morrison ...