... Johan Bojer, Blasco Ibanez, Maeterlinck, M e r e j k o vsky, Henri de Requier, Mrs. Wharton, Mdlle. S e 1 i n a Lagerlof, Thomas Hardy, and the Poet Laureate. It is earnestly to be hoped that the British Empire will be well repre sented, both in this contest ...

... dine with the present controlling spirit of the exhibition, Mr. John Tussaud, and to bring two friends Mr. Thomas Hardy and Mr. Edward Clodd. Mr. Hardy, of course, wanted a quiet look at the Napoleonic relics, for he had not then written The Dynasts. But ...

... Lord Chief Justice. He was created Viscount Reading in 1916 Willie Burke England's Greatest Novelist, Mr. Thomas Hardy, O.M. The renown of Thomas Hardy stretches far beyond his native Wessex. He was born eighty three years ago, and took up an architectural ...

... Mr^J. H. Thomas, Mr. Ramsay MacDonald, Mr. J. R. Clynes, and Mr. Arthur Henderson leaving Buckingham Palace after attending their first Council as Ministers of the Crown. Labour appears to have advanced considerably since the days when Keir Hardie created ...

... provide in little volumes If in. high their own com positions in prose or verse, written in the minutest, of handwriting. Mr. Thomas Hardy has done this with Poems and Mr. Kipling with Verses Mr. Asquith with Culture and Character, and Lord Haldane with An Essay ...

... Nearly two hundred volumes, exquisitely bound, contain original stories and poems written by the authors themselves. Mr. Thomas Hardy's handwriting would not go happily into so small a compass, so his contribution was engrossed for him, and he has signed ...

... Mr. Kinlinrr. some asked for a woman laureate Mrs. Meynell being first favourite with these. I urged the claims of Mr. Thomas Hardy, and I remember that Mr. Asquith, who apparently reads this letter, remarked in a quite kindly fashion to a friend t not ...

... first motor-cars. After these patrons had supported the early motor- making pioneers, there came a fresh set of customers a hardy, sporting set, who cared little that the rain and snow slashed their unprotected faces, but delighted to arrive smothered in ...

... at the recent Point-to-Point Races of Lord Tredegar's Hunt at Cnedkernew, i near Newport. Our photograph shows Mrs. Vivian Thomas (left). Mr. R. H. Williams (Master of the Glamorgan), Miss E. Booker, Mr, Aukland Allen. Mrs. R. H. Williams, Mrs. Owen Williams ...

... through a perfumed avenue of glorious colour, for the frontispiece of this beautiful volume is a charming colour picture of Hardy Flower Borders and Arches of Roses in a Garden in Kent. The work is-.one that more than justifies its title, for it combines ...

... through a perfumed avenue of glorious colour, for the frontispiece of this beautiful volume is a charming colour picture of Hardy Flower Borders and Arches of Roses in a Garden in Kent. The work is-.one that more than justifies its title, for it combines ...

... and a bust of Mr. Thomas Hardy, and I liked neither. I am sure that the portrait by R. G. Eves will prove a disappoint ment to Mr. Hardy's friends. It helped me to realise the genius of Mr. Augustus John, whose presentation of Mr. Hardy is superb, and who ...