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LITERATURE & LAMBKINS

... 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 ...

Published: Wednesday 19 February 1930
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1589 | Page: 14 | Tags: Review 

The Literary Lounger: The Historical Novel

... his married daughter, Lady Ursula Filmer- Sankey (who are shown on his right and left in our group) the Hon. Mrs. Freeman Thomas (second from left). Lady Serena James, Mrs. Arthur James, Col. Sir Alfred Rawlinson, Captain Clowes, and Major Basil Kerr ...

Published: Wednesday 19 February 1930
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2677 | Page: 38 | Tags: Review 

THE BOOKS YOU READ

... chief body consists of letters from and to Jones, brilliantly illuminating letters from Mr. Bernard Shaw, Sir James Barrie, Thomas Hardy, Mr. Max Beerbohm, Mr. Kipling, Conrad, R. L. Stevenson almost everyone one can think of. Besides these, there are numerous ...

Published: Saturday 07 June 1930
Newspaper: The Graphic
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 1739 | Page: 33 | Tags: Review 

THE BOOKS YOU READ

... chief body consists of letters from and to Jones, brilliantly illuminating letters from Mr. Bernard Shaw, Sir James Barrie, Thomas Hardy, Mr. Max Beerbohm, Mr. Kipling, Conrad, R. L. Stevenson almost everyone one can think of. Besides these, there are numerous ...

Published: Saturday 07 June 1930
Newspaper: Graphic
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 1739 | Page: 33 | Tags: Review 

The Literary Lounger: The Spanish Virgin

... than any is the old man, Grandfather Lloyd, who never drank to excess like the young ones, but valued his Clos Vougeot. The hardy bootlegger in Bootlegger Backwater regarded _ a himself as a benefactor of Benefactor. the countryside. At any rate he distilled ...

Published: Wednesday 20 August 1930
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2337 | Page: 42 | Tags: Review 

MR. MAUGHAM IN HOT WATER

... 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 ...

Published: Wednesday 08 October 1930
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1477 | Page: 48 | Tags: Review 

He ECSTATIC APOTHEOSIS of D. H. LAWRENCE

... 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 ...

Published: Saturday 01 November 1930
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 2465 | Page: 20 | Tags: Review 

The Literary Lounger: Influence of Henry James

... cosmopolitan. But even as a human being he was more cosmopoli tan than Scott, Thackeray, Dickens, the Brontes, George Eliot, Thomas Hardy; and his art, though so individual, was much more cosmo politan than theirs. It was not a natural, still less a national ...

Published: Wednesday 10 December 1930
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2351 | Page: 36 | Tags: Review 

Criticisms in Cameo: THE INTERNATIONAL CIRCUS AT OLYMPIA; THE MAID OF THE MOUNTAINS, AT THE LONDON HIPPODROME; ..

... vastness of Olympia At length the humans attract our attention acrobats per forming sky-high somersaults of incredible fool- hardiness: cyclists gliding on tight-ropes as if they were on terra firma equilibrists defying the laws of Newton and Einstein jugglers ...

Published: Wednesday 07 January 1931
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1712 | Page: 60 | Tags: Review 

THE VERY DEVIL AT THE HAYMARKET THEATRE: Colonel Satan, at the Haymarket

... whom the charge of inaudibility cannot be laid, are Roy Russell as a belted Karl, and Harvey Braban, a M.F.H. The music by Thomas F. Dunhill is to the Philistine ear somewhat lacking in catchy melody unless one excepts a song called John Peel, which ...

Published: Wednesday 28 January 1931
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1546 | Page: 17 | Tags: Review 

MEMOIRS, MIRTH AND MURDERS

... Beaverbrook, who endeav oured to get up a sale of the book. But his efforts were not successful. Lord Rothermere, says Mr. Ger hardi, whom I asked whether he thought a newspaper could turn a novel into a best-seller, replied with characteristic moderation: ...

Published: Wednesday 15 July 1931
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1559 | Page: 46 | Tags: Review