... His beautiful introduction to Hardy's poems, printed here, takes added meaning from his opinion, written ten years later, that Hardy is the last great poet who will ever write in the ancient music of England. Thomas Hardy is discussed in another connection ...

... sincere. In Thomas Merton the Roman Catholic faith has perhaps its most influential modern proselyte, for his incomparable gift of language stands at the service of the faith of his adoption. Brassey's Naval Annual has for over sixty years been a hardy annual ...