... engaging style. The novel is a good one, and cannot fail to be the book of the season. Dorsetshire, the county which Mr. Thomas Hardy has made almost his own, has been invaded by Mrs. F. Blundell in her two novels, Fiander's Widow and Pastorals of Dorset ...

... make out. In any environment, Thomas Hardy could not be other in essence than the Thomas Hardy we know and admire and revere. Robert Machray. THE BOOK AND ITS AUTHOR. UPPER BOCKHAMPTON, THE BIRTHPLACE OF MR. THOMAS ...

... considerable ingenuity of construction and an adequate sense of character. Her strength, however, like the strength of Thomas Hardy, lies in the description of people of the soil, farmers and labourers, rather than in that of the higher classes. Isoline ...

... butterfly, and that lies below the little primitive vanities and yearnings, just as she left it out of Dinah's noble portrait. Thomas Hardy knows how to indicate it; Meredith knew; Henry James knows, when he lets his know ledge slip. And here we have a woman ...

... haunt the hills, mailing them a conscious paradise. If Mrs. Dudeney's art once derived from Henry James, it is now nearer Thomas Hardy, though to distinguish thus is for classification only, as one says of a flower that it belongs to this or that genus. ...

... burlesque ballad. Happily, Mr. Lawrence does not give us that sort of stuff in prose. The exception among our poet-novelists is Thomas Hardy he wrote poetry first, and gave up writing novels when he turned to poetry again. But even he woidd never have said in ...

... been immortal. BOOKS TO READ. The Kitchener Birthday Book. By J. Smcdlcy Norton. Illustrated by Caton Woodville and Dudley Hardy. (Sampson, Low.) Mr. Cushing and Mademoiselle du Chastel. By Frances Rumsey. Lane The Cult of Old Paintings. By Rickard W. ...

... Europe. Of course, being Baring, he plunges into parody. There 's a delicious one in which George Meredith, Henry James, Thomas Hardy, Bernard Shaw, G. K. Chesterton, and Max Beerbohm sail a steamer as the crew, and sink her while they try to express the ...

... But I was in time for Under the Greenwood Tree a typic ally charming title, borrowed from an earlier dramatist both by Thomas Hardy and H. V. Esmond. All I remember of this play is a caravan, the beautiful Miss Maxine Elliott, and a very wonderful young ...

... LADY OF PUPPETS AND HER HUSBAND, MR. THOMAS FOSTER RAINE. (LEFT). Great interest was aroused by the surprise mar riage -of Miss Binnie Hale, the clever young revue artist and leading lady of Puppets, to Mr. Thomas Foster Raine, known on the stage as Jack ...

... mode in which accomplished writers at the present time seem to find peculiar pleasure in experimenting. Its progenitor is Thomas Hardy, and his genius is needed to give it reality. Without genius, they become wearisome, these unlovely peasant women who are ...

... attack a battle-ship with a popgun than argue with the Prefet de Police but the real presiding genius of Paris is a certain Thomas Cook. Gone are the life of the boulevard and the life of the cafe the Parisian born, besides being highly nation alistic, ...