... novel ist of his time, Thomas Hardy has had remarkably few disciples. The name of Mr. Eden Phill potts occurs to the mind at once, but I cannot think of many others, even among the rising school of rural novelists, who have adopted Hardy's method of approach ...

... expressions) sees the point of poor Tony Last. But he pursues him with a vindictive malice worthy of Destiny in a novel by Thomas Hardy. More than that, he extracts from each misfortune that overtakes the wretched man the maximum amount of amusement, so that ...

... the nineteenth century, but I have heard of its being used in a Wiltshire parish church within living memory. Lovers of Thomas Hardy will remember it as the instrument played by Elijah New, the parish clerk, at the christening-party given by Shepherd Fennel ...

... day in a volume of essays by a little-known Australian writer I came across this passage: Meredith and Henry James and Thomas Hardy were all recognized long ago as great artists; and, in fact, one sometimes questions whether now adays we do not take the ...

... dies, have to suffer the spectacle of people who heard him sneeze advertising them selves with elongated reminiscences. Thomas Hardy may or may not have been a great novelist, but at fifty he would have died with little com ment. At eighty up, he became ...

... and who had been painted by Watts, of all people. There is the grim story of the domestic life of Mr. Burgoyne there is Thomas Hardy, allowed for once to sit up in his eighties till two in the morning over a bottle of claret a vivid little journey into ...

... being (in their view) the late Thomas Ilardy and a well-known novelist who is still alive. In fact, in the old, old way, Mr. Maugham has been asked to explain. Mr. Maugham has explained also in the old, old way. Thomas Hardy Certainly not. Admittedly this ...

... attrac tive of all the biographies now ap pearing is the concluding volume of that noble life of her husband which Mrs. Thomas Hardy has just completed. It will be published by Macmillan next month. As is well known, the ad vent of Spring in the world ...

... IT was always good fun to argue with the late George Moore; especially upon his antipathies, one of whom was Thomas Hardy. At a time when Hardy was very popular, and was even being respectfully treated by the intelligentsia, Moore was asked if lie had ...

... could not tolerate Galsworthy's humanitarianism, nor could ne re strain his gift for vicious caricature. In the essay on Thomas Hardy his enemies will find the most vulner able of all pronouncements concerning his own work. In the light of recent political ...

... THE LITERARY LOUNGER. By L. P. HARTLEY. IT was Thomas Hardy, I think, who divided his novels, or some of them, into novels of idea and novels of character. The two cate gories, of course, overlap, and any really good work of fiction must belong to both ...

... devas tating about Thomas Hardy I once heard an undergraduate, with fledgling arrogance, tackle Moore about Hardy and ask him why he so plainly disagreed with every living critic of stand ing, all of whom ackno w 1 e d g e d Hardy's genius. My boy, ...