... A PRIMITIVE POST OFFICE, At Holworth, a tiny hamlet near Lulworth Cove, the loneliness of which is immortalised by Thomas Hardy, in his Wessex tale, *“ The Distracted Preacher,” a shepherd’s van, without wheels, is used as the post office. Telegrams are ...

... will contain articles by the Rt. Hon. Sir H. Campbell-Bannerman, M.P., and Mr. Winston. Churchill, M.P., and a poem by Mr. Thomas Hardy, ON SALE AT ALL BOOKSTALLS AND NEWSAGENTS. PRICE GD. ANNUAL 26s. 14, Henrietta Street, Covent Garden, W.C. ...

... been refurned as of the gross value of “rough language, but nicely said.” “A polite swear” was defined in Blackpool as Mr. Thomas Hardy, the novelist, has accepted don. the presidency of the Society of Dorset Men in Lon- The President of the Chicago Board ...

... given the | * mbers of his family much satisfaction. While a urn to Highbury is soon to be hoped, no arrange- | * o! {r. Thomas Hardy is 67 to-day. he higher criticism is, says Father Ignatius, the birth rate, m ‘he Northumberland magistrates have decided ...

... shortly. Mr. Hardy’s Presid The only wonder about the selection of Mr. Thomas Hardy as next year’s President of the London Society of Dorset Men is that the novelist par excellence of Wessex was not asked to be the Society's first president. Mr. Hardy was born ...

... PATTERSON. 6 30- Rev. GEORGE PATTERSON I BEDS E SOCIETY.— OPENING SUMMER CAMPAIGN A’JGAB'S CBOU-T -To-nafutow. at and 6.30. V*. THOMAS HARDY Maocheete.r'. • hair men, Messrs, w HODGSON and T. K. HIGGLE. ] EES HALL, Vicar-lane. Ijeeds: To-morrow _A am.. Market ...

... doctor hopes one day to become West End physician. The obscure novelist aspires to the pre-eminence of Mr. Meredith or Mr. Thomas Hardy, or the gigantic sale-sheets of Mr. Hall Caine. Both would on aspiring, say some of our counsellors, because, although ...

... saying that the rea- eon England does not produce Anarchists is because the State allows anybody to goverm who wants to. Mr. Thomas Hardy says he sucked his earliest inspiration from Crabbe, meaning that Crabbe h-d first shown him the crude tragedy of country ...

... the unconventional subjects treated in “ Measure for Measure,” “Venus and Adonis,” “The Rape of Lucrece”? Shall the works Thomas Hardy (which, by the way, are given over the counter at the Dewsbury Lending' Library) be burnt because they speak the bare truth ...

... strange how little we hear of our leading writers to-day. Mr. Rudyard Kipling seems to have passed into retirement. Mr. Thomas Hardy is waiting more novels, his time being occupied with writing poetry. Mr George Meredith gives no further indication of ...

... international medals to ladies who have distinguished themselves in the care of the sick and wounded.” Mr. Thomas Hsrdy's Anniversary. Mr. Thomas Hardy now sixty-seven. It is over forty years since his first story was published, and thirty-three since “Far ...

... busy, it is said, with an epic poem on Alfred; he has disposed of Browning and Dickens, and contemplates shortly tackling Thomas Hardy, whom he will, no doubt, de- clare to be an abandoned optimist. That is pretty Fanny’s way, and, frankly, we enjoy it. ...