... CHAMBERS'S OuRNAL For JANUARY Begins the New Volume AND CONTAINS A NEW POEM BY THOMAS HARDY AND A REPRINT OF HIS FIRST PUBLISHED WORK HOW I BUILT MYSELF A HOUSE WHICH APPEARED SIXTY YEARS AGO IN CHAMBERS'S JOURNAL Also The Opening Chapters of A GREAT ...

... BOOKS. A MAX. By Thomas Hardy. (London: Macmillan and Co., Ltd.) 6s. This collection of short stories by Mr Hardy is in every way a notable event in the publishing world of 1913. As • teller of this most difficult kind of tale, Mr Hardy has few peers at ...

... MARRIAGES. lIARDY - SHARP. - At Lamb's Hotel Dundee, on the 30th October, by the Rev. L. A. Muirhead, D.D., Thomas Hardy, only son of the late Thomas Hardy, of 81 Christchurch Road, Streatham Hill. London, to Christina Dcw•ar, second daughter of James Sharp ...

... (4)-- Clothing and sc•ience'; 8 Mr. Lillie Potter; 5.15 /Lit('. Orchestra; 9.20 Tonight's Talk: 9.35 The Dynasts, by Thomas Hardy (an epic-drama of the Napeleonie Wars); 11 Cesar Franck -- piano quintet in F minor; 11.•10 And So to Bed; 11.45 You ...

... why. Ye quaint and curious war is! You shoot a fellow down You'd treat if met where any her is, belp to half-a-crown. —Thomas Hardy. ...

... Weekly, to compare George Meredith with Thomas Hardy. On the face of it there were great resemblances betweeen the two men. In their origins, there is a certain similarity. Meredith was the son of a tailor; Hardy's father was a builder. Again, each was ...

... police-sergeant, because, you see, I'm (kaf.' If a w•a•' to the Better there be, it exacts a full look at the Worst.— Mr Thomas Hardy. You may not be able to judge by experience, but you can give a pretty shrewd guess. I got married a second time. so I ...

... be rewritten. The work is said to be well advanced. Messrs Hodge and C'enipany, of Glasgow, will be the publishers. Mr Thomas Hardy tells an interegtingstory of Barnes. the Dorset poet, in an edition of the hitter's verse which he has prepared for Mr ...

... whatever Mr Thomas Hardy has written (sacs Mr Charles Whibley in Blackwood's) it is not merely the intelligence which is at work, it is an instinctive emotion ; and if George Meredith be the Ben Jonson of his generation, then surely is Thomas Hardy its S ...

... influence on the reader. In catering for the reader who appreciates the genius of a Meredith. a halrac. a Dumas. Hawthorne or Thomas Hardy• arid also in providing for those who prefer the clean mennationalism of Mrs Henn• Wood. and Oppenhelm. or a Bailey. as ...

... - anti Sheila Kaye-Smith has chosen Rye. Romney. Hyt he, and other Southern English communities as her special v hile Thomas Hardy has made Dorset known all the orld over through his writings. The larger centres in Scotland have all hail their chn i ...

... villages, providing a feast of good things. In their programme the A.L.S. Theatre include:— The Home-Coming.-- a lovely Thomas Hardy poem; To Kill a Man, a thrilling play of midnight robbery, from a story of Jack London's; Western Island, adapted ...