... Kipling, never will or can understand it. He knows rustics with a knowledge never vouchsafed to the sombre spirit of Mr. Thomas Hardy, who is, of course, a greater writer. He knows them as Mr. H. G. Wells knows clerks and shopkeepers. His novel of smugglers' ...

... at Dorchester, where he makes one of an interesting trio of famous men, the others being Thomas Hardy and William Barnes, the well-known pastoral poet. Mr. Hardy has made his native town of Dorchester stand out for us with wonderful quaintness and charm ...

... even they are reviewed helter- skelter, for the publisher wants his wares to have a good send-off. The new volume of Mr. Thomas Hardy's Dynasts, a book that it would take a capable man a long time to read judicially, and at least as long to think over ...

... 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. ...

... novel- readers who prefer the foolish fiction by the most inane writers to the great stories by Mr. George Meredith or Mr. Thomas Hardy, so there seem to be people who are content to buy even the greatest books of the past in some shabby and shoddy form. ...

... by the presence of Mr. Thomas Shaw, M.P., the Lord Advocate for Scotland, Mr. A. E. W. Mason, the novelist, and Mr. Belloc, the historian, both of whom have had the good fortune to enter the present Parliament. Mr. Thomas Hardy was there and Mr. Richard ...

... for example. J et'not any of those who read Mr. Morlev's beautiful tribute in The Times fail to see the letter by Mr. Thomas Hardy that appeared in a later issue. The great novelist of Wessex provides perhaps the. finest reminiscence of Mill's personality ...

... In the Life of Sir Thomas Gordon, for example, just issued by Mr. John Murray under the title of .4 Varied Life I learn that Sir Thomas made a translation of 600 quatrains of Omar Khayyam so long ago as 1866. Ten years later Sir Thomas Gordon wrote to Edward ...

... by the bushes of its own garden, as the birthplace of Thomas Hardy. One is sorry to learn, by the way, from Sir Frederick Treves that Kingston Russell 1 louse, the birthplace of Sir Thomas Hardy, Nelson's famous captain, and the house also in which Motley ...

... have inspired so many of the younger men and women writers whose work we delight in. One misses the atmosphere which Mr. Thomas Hardy's novels offer and which maybe found in many a younger man who has enjoyed the Wessex novels. Lady Audley' s Secret is ...

... and Thackeray but with those among us who recall the'first appearance of many of the. books of Robert Louis Stevenson and Thomas Hardy. T t will be remembered that a year or so ago the Cassell firm published the first instalment o the Autobiography of the ...

... Dying He tells us that there is no Hawthorne, no Mommsen, no Victor Hugo, among us to-day. Personally I think that Mr. Thomas Hardy is an incomparably greater novelist than Hawthorne, who wrote only one book really great The Scarlet Letter; and it seems ...