... says somebody. Perhaps James Milne. DR. THOMAS HARDY, O.M., IN HIS OXFORD ROBES A picture taken just after the degree of D. Litt., Honoris Causa, had been conferred on the novelist and poet. On the left is Mrs. Hardy on the right, Lady Raleigh, wife of Professor ...

... eminently not out another great English novelist is happily with us to celebrate his eightieth birthdav, also not out, Thomas Hardy. Like Dickens, he is of no great physical stature, but, like him also, he will rank as a giant in authorship. His novels ...

... in London, and Other Sketches. By Dora Sigerson. With an introductory note by Thomas Hardy. (Eveleigh Nash.) 4s. 6d. A series of twenty short sketches, of which, as Mr. Hardy well says, the brevity leads a reader to muse on what the author's achievements ...

... has been a charming figure in English literary and scientific circles for half a century. One of his great friends, Mr. Thomas Hardy, who is a trifle older than himself, also remains hale and active. Another great friend was George Meredith still another ...

... of a surprise. So is Baroness von Hutten, called by her friends Pam, after her favourite and most popular heroine. Even Thomas Hardy gave his benediction to Pam, but it is a different sort of heroine that Baroness von Hutten has in the making for a story ...

... by some satirical accident, becomes editor of a story-magazine his opportunities are illimit able. He could return Mr. Thomas Hardy the manuscript of Tess with the remark, Dear Sir, you don't write with punch enough. Cultivate punch,' and then, perhaps ...

... abbey then on to Blandford, the birthplace of Alfred Stevens the sculptor, and on the border of the country made famous by Thomas Hardy. Lrom Blandford the road soon passes again into the pine wood district, and through the quaint old seaport of Poole into ...

... one) A Dull Day in London, and published by the house of Eveleigh, Nash. The tiny book has a brief prefatory note by Thomas Hardy, in which he emphasises the wide sympathies iof the writer. I was struck, he says [when in her company many years ago] ...

... hand, took it, saj'ing, I'll read it for you. He did so and returned it with the message, Admirable accept it and so came Thomas Hardy and his Desperate Remedies. A link of that sort between onr most illustrious living English novelist, and onr oldest and ...

... though a novelist's judgment on his writings does not always go with the verdict of literary and public opinion. To this day Thomas Hardy would probably say that Jude was a better wrought book than Tess, and he would put his poem, The Dynasts, before either ...

... he might not. Anyhow, his veiy modem appeal and his note, differ from the art of living Victorians like John Morley and Thomas Hardy. They wrote out of themselves, as it were, for others, giving generously of heart as well as of mind. The new literary ...

... Have you read Sir Frederick's earlier books, The Other Side of the Lantern, Highways and Byways in Dorset, for, like Thomas Hardy, he is a Dorset man, and the rest of them No! Then you have missed good read ing and good company, because King Edward's ...