... The Literary Lounger. By Alan Kemp. Thomas Hardy. A prince of letters dies in Thomas Hardy, and none will question his title to royal honours. In the strong, individual flavour of his art there was that sharp after taste which did not commend itself easily ...

... 'TNvo other books I have before me concerned 1 with Mr. Hardy are The Technique of Thomas Hardy, by Joseph Warren Beach (the University of Chicago Press, Chicago), and Pages from the Works of Thomas Hardy, arranged by Ruth Head (Chatto and ...

... 1924. I suppose that sooner or later we shall have a bibliography of the writings of Mr. George Bernard Shaw. Next to Mr. Thomas Hardy, he is the living writer in whose rarer books I take most interest. He is the one author among those whom I may call my ...

... merely the insects. here is one exception, however, and I take some pride in the fact that Mr. Thomas Hardy contributed a poem to our first number. Mr. Hardy's genius had found expression through long years of the Victorian era as a master of prose, and ...

... is a mission between heaven and earth, and so is the calling of the poor reviewer, though he gets no credit for it. Even Thomas Hardy, in a preface to his posthumous volume of poems, Winter Words, spoke of us as licensed tasters. What are we to do when ...

... might be anywhere in England, as seen through a producer's eyes. Of course, we know the story hails from Wessex, since Thomas Hardy wrote it, even if the Pro logue (admirably declaimed by an unnamed actor), did not make this clear. Yet the synopsis of ...

... twenty thousand dollars for anything so useless. H ere is the list of the forty English authors most favoured in America (1) Thomas Hardy (22) Maurice Hewlett (2) Rudyard Kipling (23) Augustine Birrell (3) H. G. Wells (24) Hugh Walpole (4) J. M. Barrie (25) ...

... 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 ...

... visited the Royal Academy and stood in front of this portrait of Mr. Thomas Hardy, I had to turn to my catalogue to make quite sure of its identity. It is not in the least like Mr. Hardy as I know him. However, if he is satisfied, that is everything, and ...

... is required. Neither Thomas Hardy nor Anatole France pos sessed it in conversation. The Englishman had none, the Frenchman's was of the wrong kind. No one ever talked less for effect than Hardy or more for eil'ect than France. Hardy's modesty and simplicity ...

... announced the presentation there of Tess of the D'Urbervilles, a Tragedy, in Foreshow, Four Acts, and an After-scene, by Thomas Hardy, O.M. The Little Theatre movement in England certainly deserves critical attention and encouragement. I will not pretend ...

... of the works of one author only Thomas Hardy. It is extremely unlikely that these eighty Hardy volumes can be matched in any existing collection. Not only do they comprise first editions of practically every one of Hardy's works in addition most of them ...