... is very well at the time and in the newspaper, but to reprint it is hardly pardonable. The essays on George Meredith and Thomas Hardy might barely pass in literary journalism, but in a book they show themselves so slight, so trivial, so. wanting in grasp ...

... The result was that Tinsley made little profit, and declined to continue working for them on the old terms. Tinsley was Thomas Hardy's first publisher, and issued his novel, Desperate Remedies, in three volumes. It went very flat. There was an excellent ...

... wind moans outside, and the con tented mind possesses its dreams I know nothing like that in any book. The reference to Thomas Hardy is sufficiently quaint: People under the influence of passion seem to me to behave in so incomprehensible a way, in a manner ...

... symposium called, My First Time in Print. Among the contributors to this symposium are Miss Braddon, Miss Marie Corelli, Mr. Thomas Hardy, and Mr. Hall Caine. It is instructive to note that, in each case, these distinguished writers began as they have gone ...

... Lowlander. out of Miss Bate- man, by Lord Clifden (foaled May 25th). CHESNUT COLT, by Garb Or, out of Elora, by Foreshore, o\it of Hardy Moll, by Haphazard, out of Moll Flagon, 'by Saunterer (foaled April 9th). N.B.-- Garb Or (by Bend Or) won the Gimcrack Stakes ...

... and age. More pertinent still is the fact that Thomas Hardy was deeply influenced by Crabbe in his youth. Perhaps without Crabbe we should not have had the Wessex novels. It was Crabbe who taught Mr. Hardy that habit of searching observation which has ...

... tures of a Milk maid, nor any of. Hardy's poems and dramas. This re cognition of Mr. Hardy's eminence must be gratifying to all lovers of liter ature. Dr. Jessup, of New York, says that if any one word can sum up Hardy, it is the word landscape. The vivid ...

... THE ROYAL INSTITUTE Things are altered since the days when Tom Collier, H. G. Hine, W. L. Thomas, Boughton, Simpson, Edwin Hayes, and Wolf, with Messrs. Herkomer, Clausen, Seymour Lucas, and William Small, kept the banner of the Royal Institute flying ...

... PRICE ONE SHILLING. CO NTH NTS. Sir John Constantine. Chapters XXII. -XXIII. By Y. T. Quiller-Couch. The Spring Call. By Thomas Hardy. A Talk With My Father. By Y alter Frith. Prehistoric Man on The Downs. Bv Arthur John Hubbard, M.D., and George Hubbard ...

... which latter is Mr. Thomas's renowned safety apron, a model that, with characteristic acumen, he has left without alteration for some seasons. Truly, you cannot better perfection. Ride-Astride Habit On the other hand, has Mr. Thomas perforce risen to the ...

... hardly safe to adopt unhesita tingly Richard Savage's story about his un natural mother, the Countess of Macclesfield. Mr. Moy Thomas has made holes in that story. Nor is it right to say that George Meredith never took possession of his rooms in Queen's House ...

... Rodin and Lerolle; and new por traits such as Mr. Orchardson's Mr. Humphrey Roberts, M. Blanche's anatomical Mr. Thomas Hardy, and Seiior Ramon Casas' striking equestrian portrait of the King of Spain. It is extraordinary how the members keep up ...