... runs most singularly on all fours with one whom he would, I am sure, be pleased to count an infinitely greater writer, Mr. Thomas Hardy. He seems to have had very varied experiences in the commercial life of London before he adopted literature as a profession ...

... relationship of a son, of Mr.' Thomas Hardy. This exceedingly lovable and attractive young man, whose mother was a Hardy, was in the 5th Dorsets; he was killed in Gallipoli after being out at the Dardanelles only a fortnight. Mr. Hardy stands to-day so indispu ...

... effort of more concentrated and more scientific historians. I am surprised when I think of it that the famous work of Sir Thomas Malory, Le Morte d'Arthur, has not been utilised more in modern fiction. It has often been said that Malory's great work is ...

... 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. ...

... the scar We that look on TV/Tr. Eden Phillpotts's new novel, Old Delabole, just issued by Mr. Heinemann, is dedicated To THOMAS HARDY In Honour of his Unapproachable Art and With Affection for his Most Approachable Self. A/T r. W. H. Macdonald has just ...

... in demand now than any other author among the wounded soldiers in the hospitals. There are twenty-two references to Mr. Thomas Hardy's works. 'T'he extent to which Mr. Andrew Lang was able to establish himself as a compiler of fairy stories is shown by ...

... made as though she were going to do so, and insisted upon the poor man making room for her to go up to the tomb. Memories of Thomas and Mrs. Carlyle show also more brightly on the masculine side, and are full of humour. One day my aunt went to call upon ...

... Mary Hardy as the younger sister of Mr. Thomas Hardy. This was an error, as Mr. Hardy still has, fortu nately, a younger sister who is now living at Talbothays, Dorchester, with his only brother. I am giving this week the picture of Miss Mary ...

... Memory From left to right this group, taken on the East Coast in a Whitsuntide holiday, includes Mr. Anthony Hope; Mr. Thomas Hardy, O.M. Mr. Edward Clodd Sir James Frazer, author of The Golden Bough; and the late Sir George Scott Robertson, K.C.S.I ...

... sale a committee has been formed as follows Edmund Gosse, C.B. (Chairman). The Lady Charnwood. The Lord Redesdale. Thomas Hardy, O.M. Thomas J. Wise. Sir Robert Hudson. Clement Shorter. Hon. Secretary: Lady Constance Butler. Now I want to persuade those ...

... tell us what they have done with their lives. The whole is reminiscent reminiscent of Walt Whitman, of Browning, of Mr. Thomas Hardy but it is quite masterly all the same. T-- T ere we have two or three hundred condensed novels. Men and women of all ranks ...

... of the poet. It is, however, in its literary aspects that it is distinctly impressive. It opens with a fine poem by Mr. Thomas Hardy, who seems really to be doing the work of the Poet Laureate without the butt of malmsey, or whatever may be the perquisites ...