... enjoy the earth no lees Because the all-enacting Might That fashioned forth its loveliness Had other aims than my delight. Thomas Hardy. ...

... To water love than toil to leave anon A name whose glory-glem will but advise Invidious minds to quech it with their own THOMAS HARDY. Who shoots at the midday sun, though he be sure he shall never hit the mark, yet as sure he in he shall shoot higher than ...

... wanting in the glory to be. We have in our time that saddest of spectacles—a writer—a man, that is almost great. I refer to Thomas Hardy the novelist. He is being put among the classics now, but those who place him there are wrong. He will be always not far ...

... suspicion of an astonish• ingly large number of the celebrated. That, to ex•ract from a few of the confessions, we have Mr Thomas Hardy saying— Abstain from smoking altogether ; Lord It yleigh— I never smoke ; Dr. W. G. Grace— I do not smoke ; Mr ...

... Rene( s I. to remove the evidence of his dusty brains from his panoramas of :` , .e Five Towns, etc., etc. I say nothing of Thomas Hardy. Re is a very illustrious may, but his greatness would be more authenticated could be be born again in • different spirit ...

... and his Accordion Band. 4.3o—Scots Variety. 7 Saturday Spotlight. 7.3o—Henry Ainley in scenes from The Dynasts by Thomas Hardy. B.ls—Star Variety. 10.35—8.8.C.' Military Band. 11.15—Joe Loss and his' Band. FORCES (373.1 m.; after 10 p.m., 342.1 m ...

... influence on the reader. In catering for the reader who appreciates the genius of a Meredith, a Balzac, a Dumas, Hawthorne, or Thomas Hardy, and ale , in providing for those who prefer the , .an sensationalise, of Mrs Henry Wood, an Oppenheim or a Bailey, as ...

... be heard in the land. Watson's warm-hearted patriotism found expression in thoughts that breathed and words that burnt. Thomas Hardy set forth the higher claims of homely deeds and humble heroism over those of the field of slaughter. Marie Corelli published ...

... fiction contributors include Michael Fitzmaurice, Thomas C. Steel, Pierre Audemas, Michael Kent, Alfred Kowie and Elizabeth Leigh. The articles deal with a wide variety of topics. Including Thomas Hardy. Scottish surnames, and living cheaply In war time ...

... —The Arts League of Service players. now in Edinburgh, and due in Dundee next month, are certainly favoured of the poets. Thomas Hardy sent them a charming letter from Max Gate, Dorchester, after seeing their performance. In London the Sitwell family of ...

... Frederic Austin; and further folk-song numbers included O Jan! 0 Jan! a recension of a Wessex folk-piece arranged by Thomas Hardy. and H. W. Petrie's devastating .kit on the blatant vulgarities of the usual Music Hall style. A 19th Century Folk Ditty ...

... Hall Caine, Eden Philpotta, Hichena, etc., are still intruding their allthy dreams in books and the greatest of his class, Thomas Hardy, is doing likewise with a greater art. Oh 1 the pity of it. But they are old and will soon pass away, and their book+ with ...