... Burnham, Lord Carson, Mr. J. R. Clynes, Sir Martin Conway, Lord Dawson of Penn, Sir Robert Donald, Sir Edward Elgar, Mr. Thomas Hardy, Mr. Cecil Harinsworth, Sir Sidney Lee, Sir Charles McLeod, Lord Newton, Sir Charles Oman, Lord Riddell, Mr. Gordon Selfridge ...

... who have made a deep impression on him, together with notes about their lives. Mr. Mais' choice ranges from Beowulf to Thomas Hardy, with poets and prose writers about equally represented. The reader will no doubt find his critical faculties at full stretch ...

... are admi rable essays 011 our public men showing a wide reading, a great gift of observation. Mr. Gardiner passes from Thomas Hardy to Henry Chaplin, from John S. Sargent to John Redmond, from the Arch bishop of Canterbury to John Burns, and all his ...

... THE LITERARY LOUNGER. By L. P. HARTLEY. IT was Thomas Hardy, I think, who divided his novels, or some of them, into novels of idea and novels of character. The two cate gories, of course, overlap, and any really good work of fiction must belong to both ...

... chief body consists of letters from and to Jones, brilliantly illuminating letters from Mr. Bernard Shaw, Sir James Barrie, Thomas Hardy, Mr. Max Beerbohm, Mr. Kipling, Conrad, R. L. Stevenson almost everyone one can think of. Besides these, there are numerous ...

... Sphere of last week Mr. Hardy's Play on the London Stage --in reference to the r ariormance of The Return of the Native, under the auspices of the Society of Dorset Men in London, has assisted to a misunderstanding. Mr. Thomas Hardy had nothing whatever ...

... in evidence here. As things are, it is the introductions that give these five volumes a very special dis tinction. JYg. Thomas Hardy, for example, introduces William Barnes, not for the first time, and among the younger writers, some of whom could hardly ...

... phrase. Long live the Prince. And conscience drives us to the cowardly conclusion that there is no Prince; no successor to Thomas Hardy, whom we all revered; to whom some of us paid unstinted homage; about whom those of us with reservations kept silent. ...

... Arthur Rackham, the celebrated artist, will find one of his letters offered for sale, and Mr. W. B. Yeats shares with Mr. Thomas Hardy and Mr.Rudyard Kipling the honours of the highest prices for letters by living people mentioned in this catalogue. repeat ...

... devas tating about Thomas Hardy I once heard an undergraduate, with fledgling arrogance, tackle Moore about Hardy and ask him why he so plainly disagreed with every living critic of stand ing, all of whom ackno w 1 e d g e d Hardy's genius. My boy, ...

... most concise and dramatic. When I first had the privilege of meeting Miss Kaye- Smith I referred to her as a pupil of Mr. Thomas Hardy, so much did she seem to have written in the spirit of that great writer's pictures of country life, with a transposition ...

... pleasing to recall that the following have refused knighthoods, some of them more than once Novelists. Journalists. Mr. Thomas Hardy. Mr. C. P. Scott. Mr. Rudyard Kipling. Mr. H. W. Massingham. Mr. Galsworthy. Mr. Alfred Spender. Asa rule when my friends ...