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The Hardy Country: The Canterbury Pilgrimages

... even if they are only houses in a street of which there are many alike. Dickens took the whole of England for his field. Thomas Hardy has confined himself chiefly to Dorsetshire, with excursions into the neigh bouring counties, but it is possible to include ...

Published: Wednesday 28 December 1904
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 394 | Page: 39 | Tags: Review 

The BYSTANDER AMONG THE BOOKS: A Bookish Book; Claudius Clear; The Influence of the Press; A Book of Hats

... are of various kinds. The book opens with some memories- of Meredith, who, on one occasion, spoke on the same evening as Thomas Hardy at a meeting of the Omar Khayyam Club surely an historical moment of which any club may be proud. Then follow papers on ...

Published: Wednesday 14 January 1914
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 849 | Page: 64 | Tags: Review 

THE LIBRARY: Mr. Meredith--Ætat 80

... the bold re minder that George Meredith is eighty, and alive in the flesh, as well as in the spirit. Linked with that of Thomas Hardy, his name stands for what is grandest in modern English fiction. As his great Victorian predecessors live by their power ...

Published: Wednesday 19 February 1908
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 978 | Page: 40 | Tags: Review 

The Bystander Bookshelf: Victorian Moss

... famous sportsman, is just dead he shot for a wager 1000 swallows and killed every one. What a guardsman Then there is Mrs. Thomas Hardy. She catches the note of fade the Obscure in this report of a conversation with her husband F. H. It 's twelve days since ...

Published: Wednesday 30 October 1940
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1239 | Page: 23 | Tags: Review 

The LIBRARY: The Mary Stuart of Denmark

... of the Napoleonic Wars. By Thomas Hardy. This is the first part of a drama to be com pleted in three parts, nineteen acts, and one hundred and thirty scenes (Macmillan 4^. 6rf. net. The Life of Edward Fitzgerald. By Thomas Wright. Illustrated. (Grant ...

Published: Wednesday 27 January 1904
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1226 | Page: 49 | Tags: Review 

A BOOKMAN'S GOSSIP: Concerning Bart

... Kipling, never will or can understand it. He knows rustics with a knowledge never vouchsafed to the sombre spirit of Mr. Thomas Hardy, who is, of course, a greater writer. He knows them as Mr. H. G. Wells knows clerks and shopkeepers. His novel of smugglers' ...

Published: Wednesday 14 February 1906
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1276 | Page: 38 | Tags: Review 

The Literary Log: The Manchester Guardian

... Biographers T +1 c 1 in the art of being vague there are many masters. Poe, Stevenson, Guy de Maupassant, Gautier, Mr. Thomas Hardy, have all excelled in their particular line, and none of them have succeeded quite so well as Mr. T. M. Falconer with the ...

Published: Wednesday 22 February 1911
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1331 | Page: 44 | Tags: Review 

The Bystander Bookshelf: Come Ye to the Waters

... and who had been painted by Watts, of all people. There is the grim story of the domestic life of Mr. Burgoyne there is Thomas Hardy, allowed for once to sit up in his eighties till two in the morning over a bottle of claret a vivid little journey into ...

Published: Wednesday 23 August 1939
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1286 | Page: 32 | Tags: Review 

MR. MAUGHAM IN HOT WATER

... being (in their view) the late Thomas Ilardy and a well-known novelist who is still alive. In fact, in the old, old way, Mr. Maugham has been asked to explain. Mr. Maugham has explained also in the old, old way. Thomas Hardy Certainly not. Admittedly this ...

Published: Wednesday 08 October 1930
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1477 | Page: 48 | Tags: Review 

Gossip About Books and Their Makers: Provincial Journalistic Enterprise

... Marianne Famingham, hllen Thomeycroft Fowler. Richard Garnett, Norman Gale, Edmund Gosse, A. P. Graves. P. Gordon Hake, Thomas Hardy, Maurice Hewlett, Nora Hopper, A. E. Ilousman, Laurence Housman, Newman Howard, E. Lee Hamilton. Rudyard Kipling, Andrew ...

Published: Wednesday 20 July 1904
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1552 | Page: 43 | Tags: Review 

LITERATURE & LAMBKINS

... attrac tive of all the biographies now ap pearing is the concluding volume of that noble life of her husband which Mrs. Thomas Hardy has just completed. It will be published by Macmillan next month. As is well known, the ad vent of Spring in the world ...

Published: Wednesday 19 February 1930
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1589 | Page: 14 | Tags: Review