... THOMAS HARDY SCENE. R. JOHN SUTTON, of Manor Farm, Mexborough, busy in the fold . -L. yard at the annual sh3ep shearing. Inset: A little flock fresh from barbering, with Vv. inevi:able exception of the black sheep, who was awkward and had to let until ...

... because they are never in request SO wrote Thomas Hardy in “The Woodlanders,” that exquisite symphony on the four seasons. Mr. Hardy himself, who has lived for half a century in that part of England which he has immortalised Wessex, is the ideal countryman ...

... THOMAS HARDY AS POET “Time's Laughingstocks,” by Thomas Hardy (London : Macmillan and Co.) (4s. 6d. net.) It is not surprising when a man who is a poet in his youth takes to novel-writing in his middle age. Sir Walter Scott is the great exemplar of it ...

... MRS. THOMAS HARDY. Mrs. Thomas Hardy has had a laxly comfortable fortnight, but is sun very ill and must be kept as quiet as passible. - Th , s mts the statement signed by a Weymouth surgeon, issued to-day nom Max Gate, Dcacheater. ...

... MR. THOMAS HARDY. FAMOUS AUTHOR DISABLED.BT SEVERE CHILL. The health Mr. Thomas Hardy, tho author, is causing considerable anxiety. He lias been confined to bod bis home, Max Gate, Dorchester, since December 12 illness which began with a chill. ‘The news ...

... Thomas Hardy, Builder. As I recalled yesterday Mr. Thomas Hardy was an architect before became an author. In fact, first broke into print with article on How I Built Myself Houee.” House building; figures his first novel, Desperate Remedies.” ...

... THOMAS HARDY MSS, In the library of the late Mr. Clement Shorter, the sale of which concluded today, some small manuscripts Thomas Hardy appeared. One realised £6OO, and another £3lO, while an autographed cony of the first edition of Desperate Remedies ...

... Mr. Thomas Hardy. an entire failure as Under the Greenwood Tree,” published a year later —in 1872, and read, at the time, hardly anybody. Yet “Under the Greenwood Tree” was the first manifestation of one aspect of Hardy’s geniusthe fresh and faithful ...

... Thomas Hardy, O.M. In the quietude of his Dorchester home the little grey man, whose modest air and insignificant mien startled Mr. Wells, to-day attains the great age of 83. Fifty-two years ago Desperate Remedies stole almost unnoticed on the literary ...

... was the and reader at that time, and he advised Hardy not to nail his rs to the mast too soon, but gr. through a series of novels, aod mean- while to try his hand on a novel with more plot in it. Hardy took the advice rather too Iiter- ally. He withdrew ...

... THOMAS HARDY AND THE BARBER. “Some time ago I was a hairdresser’s shop in Dorchester,” says writer in “T.P.’s and Cassell’s Weekly.’’ asked the barber who Was cutting my hair if he knew Thomas Hardy. The barber expressed the opinion that he considered ...

... BROTHER OF THOMAS HARDY. Mr. Henry Hardy, of Talbothays, West Stafford, near Dorchester, retired builder, brother of the late Thomas Hardy, the novelist, left gross estate valued at £40,628. He left and his gold watch to his brother Thomiw ...