... humour, wisdom. His manner of speech, too, was his manner of writing, slow, with quaint, unexpected j j turns of phrase. Ii Thomas Hardy had his way he would probably rather be remembered as the poet of The Dynasts than as the novelist of Tess. Similarly ...

... Conradish than anything else he has done, k Apart from him, where are the master I novelists of yester-year We still have I Thomas Hardy, but only get the Mellstock Edition of his writings. We have lost f Y George Meredith from Box Hill, and we gladly read ...

... Hichens, The Woman From Russia, which begins to appear next week in The Graphic, always famed for fine fidtion, including Thomas Hardy's Tess. A NEW Robert Hichens story! That is something for readers, in partiuclar for readers of THE GRAPHIC, because it ...

... eager collectors,' English and American, led him, not long since! to the conquest of Thomas Hardy's Far From the Madding Crowd in the original manuscript. Mr. Hardy thought it had been pulped ages ago and gladly supplied one missing page. Then arose ...

... Mr. Eden Phillpotts's novel, Children of Men, which concludes his Dartmoor series. It must be as long now, almost, as Thomas Hardy's Wessex Novels, and it has been written in fewer years. When Mr. Phillpotts left Fleet Street, maybe a quarter of a century ...

... winter of books is Mr. Thomas Hardy's poems, Human Shows, Far Phantasies, Songs and Trifles. It may be his last offering to us, either in verse or prose. Any how, it is remarkable as tne wore 01 a iun octogenarian, but Mr. Hardy is also our most illustrious ...

... reading to complain of. Many, however, will go over into the New Year, but a few continue to struggle forth, among them Mr. Thomas Hardy's new poems. These will speak for themselves wherever they go, and so will a little volume of verse which comes from Sir ...

... 6d. The Silver Stallion, by James Branch Cabell. John Lane. 7s. 6d. The dramatised novel is common nowadays, and Mr. Thomas Hardy's Tess had a good run in London, and is having a still better run in the country. Another of his stories, The Mayor of ...

... of the English M. Andre Maurois, France's literary expert on England and the English, who has given his opinion that Mr. Thomas Hardy is one of the greatest contemporary writers and Mr. Bertrand Russell our best contemporary philosopher. He names Shakespeare ...

... full measure from them and is very amusing in the process. Not so happily does he hit off the larger game, such as Mr. Thomas Hardy, Mr. George Moore, and Mr. Humbert Woolf. And I doubt even if he gets a rise out of those easy fish, the Sitwells, with ...

... phrase. Long live the Prince. And conscience drives us to the cowardly conclusion that there is no Prince; no successor to Thomas Hardy, whom we all revered; to whom some of us paid unstinted homage; about whom those of us with reservations kept silent. ...

... chief body consists of letters from and to Jones, brilliantly illuminating letters from Mr. Bernard Shaw, Sir James Barrie, Thomas Hardy, Mr. Max Beerbohm, Mr. Kipling, Conrad, R. L. Stevenson almost everyone one can think of. Besides these, there are numerous ...