... Trumpet-Major. A Tale by Thomas Hardy. In the Mellstock Edition it reads The Trumpet-Major. John Lovedav, a Soldier in the War with Buonaparte, and Robert, his Brother, First Mate in the Merchant Service. A Tale by Thomas Hardy. Note the relentlessness ...

... visited the Royal Academy and stood in front of this portrait of Mr. Thomas Hardy, I had to turn to my catalogue to make quite sure of its identity. It is not in the least like Mr. Hardy as I know him. However, if he is satisfied, that is everything, and ...

... 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 ...

... of A Bibliography of the Works of Mr. Thomas Hardy, 1865-1 915, by A. P. Webb (Frank Hollings, 7, Great Turnstile, Holborn). It is a very handsome little book, bound uniformly with the Wessex edition of Mr. Hardy's works, and the fact that it is the third ...

... are of various kinds. The book opens with some memories- of Meredith, who, on one occasion, spoke on the same evening as Thomas Hardy at a meeting of the Omar Khayyam Club surely an historical moment of which any club may be proud. Then follow papers on ...

... is required. Neither Thomas Hardy nor Anatole France pos sessed it in conversation. The Englishman had none, the Frenchman's was of the wrong kind. No one ever talked less for effect than Hardy or more for eil'ect than France. Hardy's modesty and simplicity ...

... ly, p| There is no sea like the Aldeburgh sea. I Mr-, Thomas Hardy shares, I think, Fitz- ft Gerald's estimate of the Aldeburgh coast, and has many times been the guest of Mr. w Clodd. Mr. Hardy, indeed, who, by the way, adds to his many distinctions ...

... announced the presentation there of Tess of the D'Urbervilles, a Tragedy, in Foreshow, Four Acts, and an After-scene, by Thomas Hardy, O.M. The Little Theatre movement in England certainly deserves critical attention and encouragement. I will not pretend ...

... of the works of one author only Thomas Hardy. It is extremely unlikely that these eighty Hardy volumes can be matched in any existing collection. Not only do they comprise first editions of practically every one of Hardy's works in addition most of them ...

... instance. Conan Doyle and Jack London come next everyone knows Sherlock Holmes. Bernard Shaw is practically unknown; so are Thomas Hardy and Meredith. At present the vogue is W. J. Locke. I have seen translations of some of his books whose originals are quite ...

... within the memory of men still living, and therefore has little history that can be recorded at the moment. Memories of Mr. Thomas Hardy and Mr. Rudyard Kipling can scarcely be printed while they live, as can those of Fox and Burke, Thackeray and Dickens. ...

... Trafalgar: Thomas Master- man Hardy, Chark s Bullen, Henry Digby. By A. M. Broad'ey and R. G. Bartelot. {John Murray.) It is with Captain Hardy, afterwards Sir Thomas Hardy, Bart., that 244 out of the 288 pages of this book are concerned. ...