... nor realists tampering with the Christmas spirit. What a ghastly thing a Christmas tale by John Oliver Hobbes or Mr. Thomas Hardy might be 1 The Realms of Faery No matter how public taste may change, the fairy story is always sure of its audience at ...

... even if they are only houses in a street of which there are many alike. Dickens took the whole of England for his field. Thomas Hardy has confined himself chiefly to Dorsetshire, with excursions into the neigh bouring counties, but it is possible to include ...

... magazine in January at 6d. This number contains the opening of a serial story by Mr.'H. G. Wells and also a poem by Mr. Thomas Hardy. Cir Henry Irving has promised to respond to the toast of The Drama at the Don Quixote dinner which takes place at the ...

... however, that they secure a compensation which cannot be measured by money. Such writers as Mr. George Meredith and Mr. Thomas Hardy are sure of a veneration among those who know which is never for a moment likely to be given to the creators of Captain ...

... committee to organise the proceedings has been formed which includes Mr. J. M. Barrie as chairman, and Mr. George Meredith, Mr. Thomas Hardy, Mr. Edmund Gosse, Mr. Andrew Lang, and the editors of The Pall Mall Gazette and The Westminster Gazette. Tickets for the ...

... [jtMsoaages wil bo able- to aRtsBfi that prtsaiJlait fanrtteuv cocenMg vl '-t tltft wHana)Bbg fact obtains that Mr. Tfawwas Hardy is to receive tite fffcpee of ILLJOv. Tfafe is am honor: 1- to Mit. llafidy, hsfc&SIl wonefe it an loiwwa- to tit m sj;-_y ...

... thou observest them not.' Thus writes the Rev. E. J. Hardy, of How to be Happy though Married fame, who has written a book on Chin se life and character, which Mr. Fisher Unwin is to publish. Mr. Hardy is just returning from Hong Kong, where he has been ...

... The other week, the University A Dutch Author of of Aberdeen conferred its English Novels honorary degree of LL.D. on Mr. Thomas Hardy and Mr. Maarten Maartens. The position of the latter novelist is quite unique, and he is justly proud of it a Dutchman ...

... where Mr. Alfred East, A.R.A., look the chair and where the guests included Lord Aberdeen, Lord Windsor, Mr. Haldanc, Mr. Thomas Hardy, Sir Aston Webb, Mr. Maarten Maartcns, Sir William Lawrence, and quite an army of other celebrated people, including two ...

... the excellent series in rich it is included. \7et another volume of real interest, however, will be the illustration of Thomas Hardy's country of Wessex bv Walter Tyndale. This volume will also aiv n Black's series with letterpress bv Wive Holland. The ...

... worthy of attention, for Dr. Macdonald touched nothing which he did not illuminate. MRS. FITZHERBERT From the Painting by Thomas Gainsborough, R.A. A HANDY ENCYCLOPAEDIA Pannell's Reference Book (The Granville Press) certainly fulfils its claim to be ...

... think very much of his Beside the Bonnic Brier Bush as arranged for the stage with artless confidence by Messrs. Augustus Thomas and James MacArthur. Types of Scottish character which serve their purpose sufficiently well in sketchy little stories like ...