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BY WAYS AND QUEER WAYS OF BOXING

... reproduced in colour. Moreover, the large-sized pages give the drawings by John Hassall, Heath Robinson, Thomas Downey, W. Barribal, Dudley Hardy, to mention only a few names a chance of effective reproduction, while the entire profits on the sale will ...

A LITERARY LETTER: The Passionate Pilgrim

... al dictionary, The Daily Mail Year book is a wonderful shilling's- worth. 'Phe two first volumes of the new edition of Thomas Hardy's works are now ready, being Tess of the D'Urbervilles. The issue, called the Mellstock Edition, is to be in thirty- seven ...

Published: Saturday 03 January 1920
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2031 | Page: 26 | Tags: Review 

FROM THE READER'S POINT OF VIEW

... Europe. Of course, being Baring, he plunges into parody. There 's a delicious one in which George Meredith, Henry James, Thomas Hardy, Bernard Shaw, G. K. Chesterton, and Max Beerbohm sail a steamer as the crew, and sink her while they try to express the ...

Published: Wednesday 14 January 1920
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1156 | Page: 24 | Tags: Review 

A LITERARY LETTER: An Anthology in the Making

... modern English fiction Thomas Hardy, Rudyard Kipling, and Joseph Conrad he has much that is salient to say. While I think he does Mr. Thomas Hardy's poetry less than justice, I share with him the resentment, which I rather fancy Mr. Hardy ...

Published: Saturday 24 January 1920
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2037 | Page: 28 | Tags: Review 

A LITERARY LETTER: A Bookman's Hobby

... Morgan would not despise the original manuscript of Borrow's Wild Wales, for example, and, still better, of Lavengro, Mr. Thomas Hardy's Return of the Native, certain treasures in the handwriting of George Meredith, of Bret Harte, of D. G, Rossetti. But ...

Published: Saturday 31 January 1920
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2065 | Page: 24 | Tags: Review 

A LITERARY LETTER: A Remarkable Novel

... our language to-day is more marked than was Mr. Conrad's when I first met him. A T r. Cournos, by the way, considers Mr. Thomas Hardy's Return of the Native as the greatest work of fiction in the English language, and The Dynasts as the greatest poem by ...

Published: Saturday 14 February 1920
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2162 | Page: 26 | Tags: Review 

A LITERARY LETTER

... Pickering for £220. I have the first and second. I fear I shall never have the third. A collection of the first editions of Thomas Hardy's works, in forty-eight volumes, was sold last year for £160. But so one might run on in this case, as with the autographs ...

Published: Saturday 28 February 1920
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2149 | Page: 26 | Tags: Review 

A LITERARY LETTER: Wordsworth and the Cinema

... Arthur Rackham, the celebrated artist, will find one of his letters offered for sale, and Mr. W. B. Yeats shares with Mr. Thomas Hardy and Mr.Rudyard Kipling the honours of the highest prices for letters by living people mentioned in this catalogue. repeat ...

Published: Saturday 03 April 1920
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1986 | Page: 32 | Tags: Review 

MRS. HUMPHRY WARD: The Famous Victorian Novelist

... Robert Elsmere cer tainly marks an epoch. Some of the great Victorians who survive were not preachers, but artists, Mr. Thomas Hardy and Mr. Austin Dobson, for example. Mrs. Humphry Ward was the last survivor of an age of preachers. It was the note of ...

Published: Saturday 03 April 1920
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 844 | Page: 8 | Tags: Review 

A LITERARY LETTER: What is Potterism?

... the other side of Europe when Mr. Thomas Hardy celebrated his eightieth birthday. It is one of the healthiest signs of the times, amid much that is not healthy, that we can still praise our famous men, and Mr. Hardy must have been gratified at the enthusiasm ...

Published: Saturday 03 July 1920
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2092 | Page: 20 | Tags: Review 

A LITERARY LETTER

... scarcely have been ignored, because it contained a brief but precious introductory note by our greatest man of letters, Thomas Hardy. But here is an extract from The Morning Post's notice of July 2 It had an atmosphere of its own, fragrant, ap pealing ...

Published: Saturday 24 July 1920
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2076 | Page: 24 | Tags: Review 

A LITERARY LETTER: A Bibliography of Landor

... Trumpet-Major. A Tale by Thomas Hardy. In the Mellstock Edition it reads The Trumpet-Major. John Lovedav, a Soldier in the War with Buonaparte, and Robert, his Brother, First Mate in the Merchant Service. A Tale by Thomas Hardy. Note the relentlessness ...

Published: Saturday 04 September 1920
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1890 | Page: 24 | Tags: Review