... his native element. The book contains some capital illustrations of incidents of the trail, by E. Boyd Smith. THOMAS GAINSBOROUGH Thomas Gainsborough is the second volume of the British Artists Series, published by Messrs. George Bell and Sons, which ...

... found in the shops, except for a very few, and at this peiiod the trails to the mines from Dawson were so execrable that only hardy, robust men could travel and carry sufficient food for even a few days. Morality is under some conditions of life tv-question ...

... worthy of attention, for Dr. Macdonald touched nothing which he did not illuminate. MRS. FITZHERBERT From the Painting by Thomas Gainsborough, R.A. A HANDY ENCYCLOPAEDIA Pannell's Reference Book (The Granville Press) certainly fulfils its claim to be ...

... seriously indeed, or not at all. Dorsetshire assuredly cannot complain of neglect with two such novelists at its service as Mr. Thomas Hardy and M. E. Francis, to say nothing here of the place won for its dialect by as true, if not so great, a poet as he who glorified ...

... humour, wisdom. His manner of speech, too, was his manner of writing, slow, with quaint, unexpected j j turns of phrase. Ii Thomas Hardy had his way he would probably rather be remembered as the poet of The Dynasts than as the novelist of Tess. Similarly ...

... Conradish than anything else he has done, k Apart from him, where are the master I novelists of yester-year We still have I Thomas Hardy, but only get the Mellstock Edition of his writings. We have lost f Y George Meredith from Box Hill, and we gladly read ...

... Hichens, The Woman From Russia, which begins to appear next week in The Graphic, always famed for fine fidtion, including Thomas Hardy's Tess. A NEW Robert Hichens story! That is something for readers, in partiuclar for readers of THE GRAPHIC, because it ...

... eager collectors,' English and American, led him, not long since! to the conquest of Thomas Hardy's Far From the Madding Crowd in the original manuscript. Mr. Hardy thought it had been pulped ages ago and gladly supplied one missing page. Then arose ...

... Mr. Eden Phillpotts's novel, Children of Men, which concludes his Dartmoor series. It must be as long now, almost, as Thomas Hardy's Wessex Novels, and it has been written in fewer years. When Mr. Phillpotts left Fleet Street, maybe a quarter of a century ...

... winter of books is Mr. Thomas Hardy's poems, Human Shows, Far Phantasies, Songs and Trifles. It may be his last offering to us, either in verse or prose. Any how, it is remarkable as tne wore 01 a iun octogenarian, but Mr. Hardy is also our most illustrious ...

... reading to complain of. Many, however, will go over into the New Year, but a few continue to struggle forth, among them Mr. Thomas Hardy's new poems. These will speak for themselves wherever they go, and so will a little volume of verse which comes from Sir ...

... 6d. The Silver Stallion, by James Branch Cabell. John Lane. 7s. 6d. The dramatised novel is common nowadays, and Mr. Thomas Hardy's Tess had a good run in London, and is having a still better run in the country. Another of his stories, The Mayor of ...