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A LITERARY LETTER: Picturesque New-Year's Customs--The Babes in the Wood Legend--A Genuine American Poet- ..

... singer and learned critic will wish him many happy returns. Mr. Thomas Hardy, Mr. Edward Clodd, and Mr. Richard Wliite- ing are among those who also preserve youthful energy at this age. Mr. Hardy's birthday is on June 2, Mr. Clodd's on July r, and Mr. Whiteing's ...

Published: Saturday 15 January 1910
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2224 | Page: 22 | Tags: Review 

A LITERARY LETTER: The Journalist as Author--A Good Book on the Dauphines

... are admi rable essays 011 our public men showing a wide reading, a great gift of observation. Mr. Gardiner passes from Thomas Hardy to Henry Chaplin, from John S. Sargent to John Redmond, from the Arch bishop of Canterbury to John Burns, and all his ...

Published: Saturday 05 February 1910
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2061 | Page: 20 | Tags: Review 

A LITERARY LETTER: A Well-deserved Recognition of Literature--Books on Japan

... thick with rumours beforehand. What has become of the Order of Merit which we all expected our one incomparable novelist, Thomas Hardy, would have received Where is the knighthood for a popular historian Where is the titular distinction for that novelist ...

Published: Saturday 02 July 1910
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2044 | Page: 20 | Tags: Review 

A LITERARY LETTER: The Black Prince--The New Academy of Literature--The Shadow of a Titan

... Pember James George Frazer Sir Arthur Wing Pinero Edmund Gosse George Walter Prothero Richard Burdon Haldane Walter Raleigh Thomas Hardy George Macaulay Trevelyan Maurice Hewlett Arthur Woollgar Verrall William Butler Yeats T like the idea of an academic committee ...

Published: Saturday 30 July 1910
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2040 | Page: 20 | Tags: Review 

A LITERARY LETTER: A Bit of Unknown London--The Academy of Literature--A Journalist's Memoris--A Good ..

... ness of the leading literary men who have at present given their names to this committee to withdraw them at once. Mr. Thomas Hardy and Mr. Austin Dobson, for example, have obviously no place in a body which Mr. Kipling, Mr. Barrie, and Mr. Balfour refused ...

Published: Saturday 20 August 1910
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1599 | Page: 20 | Tags: Review 

A LITERARY LETTER: Thraleana--An Alert Publisher of Reprints--Criticism of the Celt--Mr. Methuen's New Books

... most prominent prose authors of our generation Mr. George Meredith, who had an Irish mother and a Welsh father, and Mr. Thomas Hardy, who had an Irish M grandmother. 5^ T>ut it may be. that Mrs. Fawcett was not referring to literary achievement when she ...

Published: Saturday 27 August 1910
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2188 | Page: 20 | Tags: Review 

A LITERARY LETTER: Mr. Andrew Lang's Lilac Fairy Book--A Publisher at Number 5, John Street--A New Library ..

... Mr. Thomas Hardy, the now famous lH novelist. As I do not believe that we should wait till great writers are dead before we make much of them I would not ft hesitate if I were on the London County Council to plead for a tablet recording Mr. Hardy's A ...

Published: Saturday 08 October 1910
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2273 | Page: 28 | Tags: Review