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MR. ARNOLD BENNETT

... MR. ARNOLD BENNETT. Many admirers of the late Mr. Arnold Bennett had hoped that the ashes of Thomas Hardy were buried in Westminster Abbey place would also be found there for those of Mr. Bennett, whose body will be cremated to-morrow. Indeed, I find ...

Published: Tuesday 31 March 1931
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 115 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

Love of the Soil

... tragedy, crude descriptions if you will, but never morbidity, and descriptions of nature which are as poetic as anything Thomas Hardy ever wrote. Regain tells the tale of how man, who has slipped back to primitive state through loneliness, iccovers civilisation ...

THE YOKKSHIKE POST, FKIDAY

... Heath is iu a sense the heart and centre Thomas Hardy’s world. And so this monument commemorates what needs, save as an act of piety, remembrancer—the spot which will always remain, above others, the symbol of Hardy’s peculiar power. “No other English novelist ...

BOOKS AND MSS

... interest for notes, cuts, and stage dire'' tions written in them. There are five notable letters of Oscar Wilde and three of Thomas Hardy among the MSS. In one of these Wilde complains of changes made in Lady Mindermere’s Fan,” which he later admits was produced ...

ALFONSO. AIR LINER CRASH

... ' .V Sv:' y l:J . ' v t! 'KI n ___ i B?L . : -l HARDX STATUjE. FOR DORCHESTER.—Mr. Eric Kennlngton with his statue of Thomas Hardy which went to be cast yesterday. It is to be set up at a cross-roads near Dorchester. ...

BOGNOR.— ROCK GARDENS HOTEL. A.A. Fine.t Position. Facing Sea. Lawns. Close Bandstand. Telephone 500. A Holiday ..

... of outdoor amusement—Bathing, Boating, Fishing, Tennis, Golf, Excursions to the Isle of Wight, the New Forest, and the Thomas Hardy Country. The tollard royal hotel (on the West Cliff Promenade), BOURNEMOUm Offers in RAINY WEATHER, Deck Games in THE SOLARIUM ...

ABANDONMENT OF SCHNEIDER TROPHY RACE

... Imms'x;.: M m Ml. ANTHONY EDEN, er Secretary for Foreign Affairs. JAMES BARRIE UNVEILS HARDY MEMORIAL.—Sir James Barrie beside Mr. Eric Kennington s statue of Thomas Hardy, which he unveiled at Dorchester on Wednesday. MAJOR THE HON. O. STANLEY. Under Secretary ...

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... same authority was kinder to Thomas Hardy, mingling with its condescension a little encouragement:— Mr. Hardy disfigures his pages by bad writing, clumsy and inelegant metaphors, and by mannerisms and affectarions. Mr. Hardy is not possessed of genius ...

Published: Monday 16 March 1931
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 205 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

FARM PRODUCE

... 11. Binley, Sewerby. At Dorchester, on September 2, a bronze statue to the memory .of Thomas Hardy, the Wessex novelist, will bo unveiled by Sir James Barrie. Hardy’s old friend. The memorial is a gift to Dorchester, and has been provided public subscription ...

Published: Thursday 06 August 1931
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 163 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

The Modern View

... coming of spring to Staffordshire dell with all the deftness a Blackmore, or the onrush winter with all the macabre gloom of Thomas Hardy. His love of hearth comfort is comparable only with that of Blackmore in Lorna Doone,” or Gissing in the Ryecroft Papers ...

The Saturday Review

... a medium for his scathing flouts and jeers. Otner notable contributors Have included Lord Morley, William V. Harcourt, Thomas Hardy, Rudyard Kipling, Bret Harte, and John Oliver Hobbes. Yorkshire has a special interest in the Mulgrave’s “Essay on Satire ...