... dwelling houses, stables, coach•house, green- house, and land, 1,375 square yards altogether, belonging to the late Mr Thomas Hardy, and situate at White Bridge, Grasmere, was offered fur sale by Mr J. Nicholson, auctioneer, Mr Gatey being solicitor for ...

... Museum of Fine ay-. Poston). Francis Haverneld (lecturer at Oxiorill. Professor Bury (Cambridge). Lord heir. the novelists Thomas Hardy, Maarten and John Struthers (secretary of the Scuttibh Education Department). ...

... A MOCK FUNERAL. Mr. Eden Philpotts, who has been described as the Thomas Hardy of the Dartmoor Country, has some fine scenes in his new book. The Whirlwind. Here is ono curious account of mock funeral: The manner of it was this. Suppose a man and woman ...

... THE EVE OF WATERLOO. Mr. Thomas Hardy at; a poet is at war with everything that de-troys beauty and life. and • good example of his outlook is the following, from the third volume of the Napoleonic drama - The Dynasts (Macmillan). Dealing with the eve ...

... giving him no rest. Mr. Meredith likes to see cricket at Lord's. Mr. Thomas Hardy loves the serenity of tl.st Wessex which be has made immorta'.. London see s him little. Ile and Mrs. Hardy. whose reading is so to , eful to his novels, go cycling together ...

... THOMAS HARDIS PHILOSOPHY In a passage in the preface to The Works of Thomas Hardy, Wessex Edition (Macmillan), the author deals with a frequent criticism passed upon the general tone of his philosophy. In the following characteristic words he makes ...

... melody flashed through his mind in a moment, and he wrote it down at once without having afterwards to alter a single note. Thomas Hardy, the novelist, depends largely on inspiration, and (Inds it useless to attempt to accomplish satisfactory work when the ...

... Joseph Chamberlain, he has never been defeated at the polls. Mr. Thomas Hardy on Animal Training. Writing in a recent issue of The Times on the training of performing animals, Mr. Thomas Hardy stems that there is ample evidence to show that many trainers ...

... was practically a blank cheque from Mr. Pierpont Morgan for the purchase of the Ml t. of Tess and The Dynasts, Mr. Thomas Hardy has presented them, with others. to the nation. According to the Daily Nett v, '• Tess and The Dynasts will go to the- ...

... great harvest which under God would yet be reaped for the world when the war was over and done. They were of those of whom Thomas Hardy had said : March we to the field ungrieving In our heart of hearts believing Victory crowns the just, Hence the faith and ...

... as a post office at the primitive seaside hamlet of llolworth (ltorsetb the loneliness of which is immortalised by Mr. Thomas Hardy in his Wessex tale The Distracted nreacher. - Teh.- gran►s are dispatched from the coastguard statical. Twenty-eight wagonette ...

... positine which he since retable4. l He Is alb *Nisbet Judicial 'Committee of the Privy Couticil l e Kagland. PH. Thomas Hardy: Mr. Thomas Hardy celebrated Itip seventieth birthday on Thursday. it was at the solicitation of Mr. Frederick a rceieciod . that ...