... volumes is a book that, as the booksellers would say, no gentleman's library should be without. Y/Ve all know that Mr. Thomas Hardy, so famous as the author of Far From the Madding Crowd, and Tess of the D'Urbervilles, began his literary career by writing ...

... demonstration, however, that a prophet may be honoured in his own country, for his fellow-citizens are the purchasers. ly/f r. Thomas Hardy, to whom everyone must have wished many happy returns of his birthday a week or two back, called on me here a day or two ...

... carved oak table, which bears the names of the subscribers, who included Mr. Herbert Spencer, Mr. George Mere dith; Mr. Thomas Hardy, Anthony Hope and his father, the Rev. E. C. Hawkins, Canon Isaac Taylor, Mrs. W. I ...

... Wessex. I remember that some time ago Mr. Thomas lldlUJ 1I1UV.11 IL3C111CU llic action of one of our women novelists in using the term Wessex, invented by him for purposes of fiction, in a story. Nevertheless, Mr. Hardy need not mind, although one would have ...

... the last week or two, moreover, it has secured the adhesion of two other honorary members in Mr. George Meredith and Mr. Thomas Hardy, both of whom have expressed their pleasure in joining the ranks in very charming letters to the secretary. 'T'he New York ...

... less I think with pleasure that the three greatest literary men of the age Mr. George Meredith, Mr. Swinburne, and Mr. Thomas Hardy all live amid the most simple surroundings, and all, I am quite sure, maintain the highest dignity by so doing, and certainly ...

... the county of Dorset for the scene of some of her work. It is peculiarly daring when we remember the great books that Mr. Thomas Hardy has written in connection with that county, but Mrs. Blundell disarms criticism at every turn. There is, for example, far ...

... History oj Sir Richard Calmady. Mr Thomas Hardy may congratulate himself on the literature that his picturesque presentation of Wessex will have provided in the course of time. We have already two excellent books on Mr. Hardy's works and country, one by Mr ...

... may be recognised when it is too late. It is the aftermath of criticism that is of value, and from Cardinal Newman to Mr. Thomas Hardy the last half-century has produced a succession of brilliant writers who have praised Crabbe's works wisely and well. rabbe's ...

... interest in the eighteenth century. T t is curious that a rumour should have got abroad that Mr. Thomas Hardy has decided to write no more fiction. Mr. Hardy, as a matter of fact, has a story in hand for The Sphere that will be published at an early date ...

... an actual reprint of the pages of Eraser's Magazine. We learn from Dr. Patrick's preface that both Mr. Meredith and Mr. Thomas Hardy have read the proof sheets of the biographies of themselves contained in this cyclopaedia the first volume, however, does ...

... novels of Charles Reade and Anthony Trollope, several of the novels of Mr. Meredith, and all the principal novels of Mr. Thomas Hardy. If Mr. Duckworth will be able to issue in his Green back Library writers quite as good as these he will, indeed, be fortunate ...