... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... Meanwhile there has been a very judicious protest published in the Times and signed by Mr. Swinburne, Mr. George Meredith, Mr. Thomas Hardy, and other well-known writers, against the action of Mr. Rcdford. The petition was obviously arranged by Mr. Arthur Syrnons ...

... always associate with the Celt. These characteristics are in Mr. Meredith, in Mr. Thomas Hardy, in Mr. Anthony Hope (in Quisan/e but Mr. Meredith had an Irish mother, Mr. Hardy and Mr. Hope, Irish grandmothers, and this may account for much. But that intangible ...

... Firth Augustine Birrell Thomas Hodgkin W. T. Courthope Martin A. S. Hume Andrew Lang F. York Powell David Masson George W. Prothero A. W. Ward Imaginative Literature Literary Side of Science Austin Dobson Edward Clodd Thomas Hardy W. Boyd Dawkins George ...

... Windus. 'TTiis reminds me that Mr. Thomas Hardy is shortly to change his publishers his books are to be issued by the Macmillans instead of by Harper Brothers. As the owner of a complete set of first editions of Mr. Hardy's books I find they have had the ...

... 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 ...

... for one feel for the memory of Lionel Johnson. His bo ik on Thomas Hardy, for ex ample, was I he outcome of a fine critical judgment which made him recognise how really great a novelist Mr. Hardy is, how high a place he must ultimately take in English literature ...

... particular education who had the profoundest reverence for Barnes, but who could not understand that Mr. Thomas Hardy was a great writer. Mr. Hardy will, however, it is safe to say, be read all over the English-speaking world for ages to come. JYJ ajor ...

... this successful movement Alfred Church, Evelyn Abbott, Stanley Lane Poole, W. Clark Russell, Andrew Lang, Thomas Hardy, Anthony Hope Hawkins, Thomas Hodgkin, James Bryce, Edwin Arnold, Hall Caine, Edmund Gosse, Mary A. Ward, George Meredith, &c. It will ...

... the hand of original genius, instinct with great power. V f this be adequate praise we have another George Meredith or Thomas Hardy, another Dickens or Thackeray, in our midst, for 1 suppose that if one were wishing to praise a book by any one of those ...