... found abun doned last vigbt in the Calls, Leeds. wun cliumed to-day by owner, and tohen back to Hull. YAL SYMPATH Mrs, Thomas Hardy has received messago ef from King and Queen. ...

... CROWD. Mr. Thomas Hardy, O.M., who yesterday Ge tered his eeventy-ninth soar, is sponding the evening of hie days “far from the madding at his quiet home near Dorchester. His health remains excellent. Ten years ego (says “Tho Yorkshire Mr. Hardy said he ...

... district. place of Bott at Inside right. Team:—Slddall. Guest. Simpson; Dixon. L. Red earn. Red fern; Hollyoak, Sadler. Thomas. Hardy. Cawthorne. ...

... assistant. shop close \ There was also a raw-boned His nam frishman rolling about London. was Bernard Shaw. There was another Thomas Hardy. and there was a voung journal ist. struggling tor a living an whose name was Barrie. ...

... Museum Fakes and Fergertes. The announcement that a Thomas Hardy manuecript sented to the Museum ae many peop! peculate on the num forged or other, fi a whi ich ma An T ‘today, pet the museum a anmbep of ‘fakes’ of one kind or conmonities. + are ‘Jabelled ...

... Nardy. Max Gate, the roomy, unpretentious house on the outskirts of Dorchester, where the Prineg of Wales takes tea with Thomas Hardy to-day, was designed by the poct himself. first choice of a profession was archi. tecture, which he studied in London, ...

... Mr. Vaniman aa a mascot BOO raddon, who has written 72 ‘novels in \the half s century, has a great admiration for the f Thomas Hardy. “I can admire ‘Jude the as profound study of human nature, but it morte painful to read the story of melancholy se tho ...

... caso of the meat-eaters first, and the rest almost nowhere—the vege- tarian ducks being the most meagre of the lot. Mr. Thomas Hardy, who will celebrate his 72nd birthday, to-morrow, is the only survivor of the great novelists of the Victorian Era Dickens ...

... and old. For the purpose of playing Rugby football man may be too old at 30; but for the purpose of writing poetry Thomas Hardy at 80 was more vigorous than most young poets their twenties. ...

... A New Soene o 8 Mr. Thomas Hardy has written a new short scene. for of the D’Urber- to be interposed between tl.ird and fourth acts. Tt is vow being rehearsed at the Garrick Theatre, it is hoped to play it this week. Miss Ffrangcon-Davies, who plays Tess ...

... TT eM CERT Mr. Thomas Hardy, in a “ foreword” to the annual volume of the Society of Dorset fen in Londen, refers to the change that has come over Lendon social life, and the indifference to ihe province sm that incomers were formerly compelled io etifle ...

... knighthoods, but are anxious in the Social Swim. That is one reason why so few writers of firtt order car© to live in London. Thomas Hardy Dorchester. Henry James at Rye, Wells at Kipling in Sussex. Arnold Bonnet Fontainebleau; host others.lower down the ladder ...