... drunk is with enthusiasmn, a-nd Mr Dunbair Dunbar re- sponded. First-class muisic was supplied by Mr Tuff's -band, auth Piper Thomas Macdonald, Cluny, played selections at, intervals. The pro: ceedings were eharaeterised by much enthusiasm th roughout. Dr ...

... A number of the other local artists are also, hardI ~'at u-cr!- pre~paring pictures, both landscape and, KpoTrtrtit. for tile forthcoming exhibitione; These include _'Mr secrrze Russell Gowans~, Mr Thomas -Bunting. :sr Jaome' A. H. RaC-lor, AberdeenI ...

... to Sir John Aresken of Alva. The story of Granny Duncan and Baird and Hardie is no t doubt still remembered by a few very old Stirling I and Glasgow worthies. Baird and Hardie were the two leading Radicals who were arrested at the l Battle of Bonnymoor ...

... devoted to the bibliographical and 'crc biographical es-pesition of a living auLthor. Mr 1W'V George Miereditlh and Mr Thomas Hardy have td had such an honour, and it wvould he illogical t hi to assert that the eomparatrva youth and lice' eel rary immaturity ...

... ttour, and (xhor Stadies in the By-wars of n ArcloZenoi gy-. Dy Frederick Thomas E1vortl-y. t! Illus: yeti-ns. (Lon l n : John Murray.) V P,i-r'a'es in a WeVadering Lifek.' Bv Thomas n Arnold -MLA. (Londo1n: E.lW;iLril Arnold) g ?? Mt'eru ita!y 17ES-'ISJS ...

... hV al lI inters-si-tei in pliysical culltire, T he book is illustrated hy a number of excellent photographs. Mr Thomas Atkins. By E, J. Hardy, 24. A., Chaplain to the Forces. (London: T. Fisher Unnwiu.) The author of this volume has been conneeted with ...

... honer in modevrn etohing-portraiture than h~is now. il Amo~ng the finest recent etched por'irsits ntwi0, shovmn are M~r Thomas Hardy (not teo unfor- I untonate earlier portrait, which Suggests that the aneminent novelist had just eec-aped death b;yhang- ...

... THRsD QLASS. 211. J.ohn C orrigall, Harroogate, Dounby Com- .neinizon P.ES. 213. Norman Macieod, Stcrlnoway, Aird P.S. 230. Thomas H[. EHastie. Hamilton (L.), Green- field P.S. 231. Anguvs Macleod, Stornoway, Aird P.S. 251. Jeremiah Halcrow, Dunrossness ...

... Government at the . Columbia University, New York City. 5 ., * * . I E Mr W. L. Courtney is writing the monograph . I on Thomas Hardy for Maessrs Greening's English Writers of To-Day. Sir George ; I Douglas's contribution to the series is Thbe Parnassian ...

... s'ppre. ciation of the performance by frequent and on- stinted applause. PRINCESS'S THEATRE- TWO L LE VAGABONDS. Messrs Hardie It Von Leer's Company ap- I peered at the Princess's Theatre last night in Two Little Vagabonds, which they played at the ...

... . The Oornhill Magazine (Smitih, Elder, -and Co.) for April provides its readers with an excellent bill of fare. Ar Thomas Hardy . ontributes some delightful verses on 'The Souls of the Slain, from which it would be impossible to quote without quoting ...

... Realities of the South African War; Capt.-Mahan tt. (in an excellent article) sets forth the Merits of the Transvasl Dispute; M Yr Thomas C. Hutton fore- casts the Doom of the Boer Oligarchies; ex- Secretary Alger writes cordiallv about America's P- attitnde towards ...