... at large knows very little concerning the political sympathies of writers of the eminence of Mr. George Meredith and Mr. Thomas Hardy it is writers such as these, whose genius is universally acknowledged by all the wiser minds of the time, whom one would ...

... read if only for the fine piece of characterisation in the presentation of Martin Potten. There is a suggestion indeed of Thomas Hardy's Tess. In both a murderer is the hero or heroine of the book. What seems a sordid murder in the eyes of the world is touched ...

... by 11 The Sphere will be found on the second page of this issue. MRS. HARDY, THE MOTHER OF MR. THOMAS HARDY, THE FAMOUS NOVELIST From an oil painting by her'daughter Miss Mary Hardy ...

... found in the shops, except for a very few, and at this peiiod the trails to the mines from Dawson were so execrable that only hardy, robust men could travel and carry sufficient food for even a few days. Morality is under some conditions of life tv-question ...

... interest ing contributions. There is one in this number by Mr. Clive Holland, on Thomas Hardy and the Wessex Novels, which those who are collectors of everything concerning Mr. Hardy (and they are many) will be glad to secure. There is also an enthusiastic ...

... not yet received from Oxford the degree of D.C.L. AAur three foremost men of letters Mr. Meredith, Mr. Swinburne, and Mr. Thomas Hardy, for example have not been thus honoured by Oxford. Even Mr. Andrew Lang, who had conferred upon him the more humble degree ...

... Marianne Famingham, hllen Thomeycroft Fowler. Richard Garnett, Norman Gale, Edmund Gosse, A. P. Graves. P. Gordon Hake, Thomas Hardy, Maurice Hewlett, Nora Hopper, A. E. Ilousman, Laurence Housman, Newman Howard, E. Lee Hamilton. Rudyard Kipling, Andrew ...

... England. An interesting luncheon party gathered to meet Mr. Van Dyke last Friday as the guests of Dr. Robertson Nicoll. Mr. Thomas Hardy, Mr. Austin Dobson, and Mr. Max Beerbohm were of the company. TV/T r. W. M. Brookes of Bradford sends me the following ...

... crime with Mr. Asciuith and Mr. John Morley, with Lord Wolseley and the Lord Chancellor, with Mr. George Meredith, Mr. Thomas Hardy, and a long list of poets, novelists, historians, and essayists who are among the many distinguished men in our latter-day ...

... have been entertaining quite a number of literary friends down at the picturesque old town of Glaston bury, including Mr. Thomas Hardy, Mr. William Watson, Mr. Money Coutts, and Mr. Churton Collins. J have recently seen the statement that George Paston, ...

... the youngsters will no doubt be seen in classic events, and it will be interesting to note the further progress of Mr. H. Hardy's crop of this season's puppies. In Hop- rend (Forgotten Fashion Heii'loom), and Haste (Young Fiery Dashing Diana), he certainly ...

... distinguished men of letters, for example Mr. Meredith, Mr. Swin burne, Mr. Thomas Hardy, and Mark Rutherford have been simply men of letters and nothing else, although Mr. Hardy was once an architect and Mr. White a civil servant. To be something else ...