... The Literary Lounger. By Alan Kemp. Thomas Hardy. A prince of letters dies in Thomas Hardy, and none will question his title to royal honours. In the strong, individual flavour of his art there was that sharp after taste which did not commend itself easily ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... might be anywhere in England, as seen through a producer's eyes. Of course, we know the story hails from Wessex, since Thomas Hardy wrote it, even if the Pro logue (admirably declaimed by an unnamed actor), did not make this clear. Yet the synopsis of ...

... 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 ...

... novel ist of his time, Thomas Hardy has had remarkably few disciples. The name of Mr. Eden Phill potts occurs to the mind at once, but I cannot think of many others, even among the rising school of rural novelists, who have adopted Hardy's method of approach ...

... expressions) sees the point of poor Tony Last. But he pursues him with a vindictive malice worthy of Destiny in a novel by Thomas Hardy. More than that, he extracts from each misfortune that overtakes the wretched man the maximum amount of amusement, so that ...

... the nineteenth century, but I have heard of its being used in a Wiltshire parish church within living memory. Lovers of Thomas Hardy will remember it as the instrument played by Elijah New, the parish clerk, at the christening-party given by Shepherd Fennel ...

... 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 ...

... one that Ford worked in an age of giants. A periodical which could have in its first number original contributions from Thomas Hardy, Henry James, Joseph Conrad, John Galsworthy, W. H. Hudson, H. G. Wells, R. B. Cunninghame Graham and W. H. Davies, seems ...