... A MOCK FUNERAL. Mr. Eden Philpotts, who has been described as the Thomas Hardy of the Dartmoor Country, has some fine scenes in his new book. The Whirlwind. Here is ono curious account of mock funeral: The manner of it was this. Suppose a man and woman ...

... THE EVE OF WATERLOO. Mr. Thomas Hardy at; a poet is at war with everything that de-troys beauty and life. and • good example of his outlook is the following, from the third volume of the Napoleonic drama - The Dynasts (Macmillan). Dealing with the eve ...

... THOMAS HARDIS PHILOSOPHY In a passage in the preface to The Works of Thomas Hardy, Wessex Edition (Macmillan), the author deals with a frequent criticism passed upon the general tone of his philosophy. In the following characteristic words he makes ...

... Joseph Chamberlain, he has never been defeated at the polls. Mr. Thomas Hardy on Animal Training. Writing in a recent issue of The Times on the training of performing animals, Mr. Thomas Hardy stems that there is ample evidence to show that many trainers ...

... was practically a blank cheque from Mr. Pierpont Morgan for the purchase of the Ml t. of Tess and The Dynasts, Mr. Thomas Hardy has presented them, with others. to the nation. According to the Daily Nett v, '• Tess and The Dynasts will go to the- ...

... great harvest which under God would yet be reaped for the world when the war was over and done. They were of those of whom Thomas Hardy had said : March we to the field ungrieving In our heart of hearts believing Victory crowns the just, Hence the faith and ...

... positine which he since retable4. l He Is alb *Nisbet Judicial 'Committee of the Privy Couticil l e Kagland. PH. Thomas Hardy: Mr. Thomas Hardy celebrated Itip seventieth birthday on Thursday. it was at the solicitation of Mr. Frederick a rceieciod . that ...

... Madame Campan opened a school for young ladies at St. Germain. One of her pupils was Quern Hortense of Holland. Mr. Thomas Hardy. Mr. Thomas Hardy was sixty-four on Thursday. Architecture was his first profession, and he does not think that he wasted his time ...

... Boma, Carlyle and Norm and the Nautical Almanack were pitched away, and I had only the old Bible left. A short story by Thomas Hardy is among the contents of the Slay Cosawpohtun. There is also a story after Zangwill—a long way—written by Abraham Cahan ...

... Eden Phillpotts, who followed Mr. R. D. Blackmore as the novelist of Devonshire, and is doing for his county much what Mr. Thomas Hardy did for Wessex. and much in the same manner. Mr. Phillpotts was born in India in 1862. and educated, like a good Devonian ...

... number her own Any'n-Suron Revair. which Mr. Lane will hero ready ou July Ct. Mr. W. L. Courtney is writing the bioerarhy f Thomas Hardy for the English Writers of To-day F. V. White and Co. will publish immediately • new novel by Mr. William Le Queue. ...

... Certainly the ancient house enjoys happier times to-day. Greatest Living English Novelist. The announce men — , that Mr. Thomas Hardy has written a play for the Dorchester Players. is A reminder that it is about fifty-five years since our greatest living ...