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THE CONDUCT OF THE WAR: Some of Our Blunders

... pictured by Mr. Bernard Part ridge on the opposite page, and translated into poetry with such a touch of poignancy by Mr. Thomas Hardy, is the most obvious, as it has been the most familiar, note of the War Office since the early days of October. But when ...

Published: Saturday 27 January 1900
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1862 | Page: 20 | Tags: Photographs 

A LITERARY LETTER

... A remarkably choice set of first editions of Mr. Thomas Hardy's novels. The thirty-eight volumes are priced at 35 guineas, but if this be an accurate estimate of their value, a set of Mr. Thomas Hardy's novels in the original cloth must be worth /ioo ...

Published: Saturday 27 January 1900
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1826 | Page: 36 | Tags: Photographs 

THE NEWSLETTER: London Week by Week

... abund a n ce, as Lorna D o o n e, which ap- ■y peared in 1009, has made a portion of Devonshire as classic a soil as Mr. Thomas Hardy's Wessex. There were those who believed more enthusiastically in some of Mr. Blackmore's other novels than in Lorna Doone ...

Published: Saturday 27 January 1900
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2759 | Page: 6 | Tags: Photographs 

Article

... again to come back to honesty. As a delineator of the country life and country livers, Blackmore was not beaten either by Thomas Hardy, or Richard Jefferies, or the mysterious Son of the Marshes. In Cripps the Carrier, in l'crlyeross, and, above all, ...

Published: Wednesday 31 January 1900
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1988 | Page: 14 | Tags: Photographs 

THE GREAT COURSING EVENT OF THE YEAR: The Waterloo Cub

... Sir Thomas Brocklebank's Border Song has the Corrie Cup at his credit to encourage backers. Mr. L. Har rison's Prince Falcon and Mr. L. Nicholls' Nightmare, the pair which divided the Wappen- bury Stakes in September last, are running. Mr. H. Hardy's Hesper ...

Published: Saturday 17 February 1900
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1991 | Page: 30 | Tags: Photographs 

TO INTENDING

... Egyptian tale of Two Brothers, the most ancient pieces of literature extant, to the best work of living writers, like Tolstoi, Hardy, Swinburne, Mark Twain, or Kipling. It contains everything the great classics like the Iliad and the Odyssey wonderful stories ...

Published: Saturday 17 February 1900
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 1784 | Page: 40 | Tags: Photographs 

THEATRE GOSSIP

... good dramas, it was hardly to be expected that so sombre a story and one so full of special pessimistic pleading as Mr. Thomas Hardy's gruesome story, Tess of the D'Urbervilles, would thoroughly succeed on any stage. ft says much, therefore. for the ...

Published: Wednesday 28 February 1900
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2363 | Page: 40 | Tags: Photographs 

THE NEWSLETTER: London Week by Week

... F. H. HOSKIER The Sphere Representative: Killed at Sterkstroom February 24 THE NEW CLOCK OF LEWISHAM Hans Dsutscn MR. H. HARDY'S WILD NIGHT, 1898 FEARLESS FOOTSTEPS, 1900 Mr. E. ROGERS'S BLACK FURY, 1899 THE WINNERS OF THE WATERLOO CUP FOR THE LAST THREE ...

Published: Saturday 03 March 1900
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2274 | Page: 6 | Tags: Photographs 

THE MAN ON THE WHEEL

... any fortnight that I look back upon with more pleasure. To those, then, who cannot make up their minds, I say, Go into Thomas Hardy's country. j. f. f. MELBOURNE EXHIBITION BUILDINGS VENUE OF THE GREAT ANA WHEEL RACE, 1900. ...

Published: Wednesday 21 March 1900
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1665 | Page: 39 | Tags: Photographs 

THEATRE GOSSIP

... future include, principally, the following Mr. Lewis Waller's first West-End production of Mr. H. A. Kennedy's adaptation of Thomas Hardy's well-known MISS ADA REEVE AS ALADDIN IN THE BRISTOL PANTOMIME. Photo by Midwinter and Co., Bristol. MISS ADA REEVE'S ...

Published: Wednesday 11 April 1900
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1440 | Page: 40 | Tags: Photographs 

THE WESTMINSTER SCHOOL SPORTS

... Baker. The Comedy Theatre reopens on Saturday evening with Tess, Mr. Kennedy's adaptation from the famous story of Mr. Thomas Hardy. Some alterations have been made in the version in order to increase its effectiveness, anil Mrs. Lewis Waller, who plays ...

THEATRE GOSSIP: MRS. PATRICK CAMPBELL'S BEREAVEMENT; MISS OLGA NETHERSOLE AS SAPHO; A CLOWN'S CHRISTMAS; MISS ..

... reproduced tess, Founded on Thomas Hardy's famous novel of the ■ante name, at the Comedy Theatre last Saturday evening. Alec is played by Mr. Fred Terry. Photo by the London Stereoscopic Company, dlegstit Street, IV. MR. THOMAS HARDY, AUTHOR OP TESS, THE FAMOUS ...

Published: Wednesday 18 April 1900
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1195 | Page: 40 | Tags: Photographs