... maintenance of a school of iesthetice. A fund has already been constituted for a chair of English Literature to be called The Thomas Hardy Chair. ...

... D'Urbervilles. by Thomas Hardy, will be produced at the Barnes Theatre. 8.W., from 1 September. Mr. Philip Ridgway. owner of the B.rnes Theatre, who has procured the dramatic rights. is searching for an actress to play the part of Voss. Mr. Hardy is taking the ...

... NOWAY THEATRE. Tel. Garrard 4032. LILLAR MeCARTRY GRAVVILLF. BARRER. Evenings at Matinees Weds. trod Sam at THE DYNASTS. by THOMAS HARDY. Alsrldge4 for the Stage and'atedueed My Growing. Rather. SPECIAL MATINEES. Jaw 11. 21, 22. at CARLO MEN in CIOITRE. by ...

... office after being co-opted. THOMAS HARDY'S CHOIR. From Our Own Correspondent. Dorchester, Tuesday. The choir of Holy Trinity Church, Dorchester, took part in a touching scene, yesterday in the drawing-room of Thomas Hardy, at the close of his 84th birthday ...

... even finer Devonshire. LITERARY WORLD: Miss Wil!cocks shows the wit of Barrie in close alliance with the bold realism of Thomas Hardy and the philosophic touches of George Meredith. DAILY TELEGRAPH : 6 WiddlCOnibe good and 4 Tho Wingless Victory' was ...

... several years assisted him as his secretary, and who is also , the author of numerous books for children. THOMAS HARDY. O.M. The last years of Hardy's life were spent in repose at Max Gate, near Dorchester, where most of his work was done With the death ...

... to take the most popular, but the list promises well, for the next public• tions will include novels by R. L. Stevenson, Thomas Hardy, Hall Caine, H. Rider Haggard, Lucas Malet, Robert Hichens, W. B. Maxwell, Stanley W'eyman, H. A. N'achell, and H. G. It ...

... the praises of Rossetti. Her best book, she thinks, is Comin' thro' the Rye, and it has been her most successful one. Thomas Hardy once told her that wherever he went he was always sure of finding this book and the Bible. ...

... NEW 6/- NOVELS. HOLIDAYS IN THE HARDY COUNTRY.,• The wonderful Wessesi novels of Thomas Hardy have called attention in recent years to the enarms of that southern county of the ancient Kingdom of Wessex—Dorset shire. Even those who knew the beauties of ...

... a new edition of Lionel Johnson's The Art of Thomas Hardy, originally published in I'°4, and for sonic time out of print. The new edition will have a supplementary chapter on the poetry of Thomas Hardy. by Joseph Barton; the bibliography by Mr. Lane ...

... etc., PATRICK M. MOIR. 20, Lansdowne-crescent, Edinburgh. MR. THOMAS HARDY 6 7HE ABBEY. Sir,-1 think a great many of your readers wilt fail to share your profound satisfaction that Thomas Hardy is to be buried in the Abbey. Surely it would be a far greater ...

... that the brilliant authoress finished writing the story in a tenement in a London slum. Miss Kennedy is a friend of Mr. Thomas Hardy. ...