... and expression here from the homely irony of Shy Geordie to the astringent advice of An Unco Sicht. And though, like Thomas Hardy, she is convinced that the sorrows of our proud and atigry dust are from eternity and shall not fail, she confronts them ...

... MUSIC LUNCH-HOUR CONCERT Thomas Hemsley By Our Music Critic It came as no surprise 1o learn taai Thomas Hemsley who with Msichael Lester-Cribb ?ve yesterday's Lunch Hour Recital, had spent two years in the St Paul's Cathedral Choir. A number of fine artists ...

... native of Dorchester, Sir Frederick Treves (1853-1923), the eminent surgeon, was a utelonfi friend of his fellow-townsman, Thomas Hardy, the novelist and poet who, ‘after Treves's death, wrote a poem in his memory His fame as a surgeon became ‘world-wide ...

... Wilberforce in Br\i}hlon. where she died. Miss Robins was acquainted with many tamous writers in this country, among them Thomas Hardy., Oscar Wilde, and_Bernard Shaw. She married Mr George Richmond Parks. who died before she came to this country. ...

... Strachey, R. J. Smith and Leonard Huxley. Among the earlier contributors were: Tennyson, Arnold, Gcogc Eliot, R. L. Stevenson, Thomas Hardy, and Henry James. In 1917 John Murng' acquired the business of Smith, Elder, and took over the publication of “The Cornhill ...

... could catch a quick, living likeness as well as any of his contemporaries. Indeed, he told me that, when he went to paint Thomas Hardy at Max Gate, he would take a new canvas and, giving the impression to the sitter he was proceedinfi with the same work, ...

... dwell on Mr Parker's other work, his many critical essays, his books on Modern Scottish Writers and on the Wessex novels of Thomas Hardy. That he is one of the master-masons of this monument to one of Scotland’'s greatest men, a monu ment as plous and perennial ...

... will take part. | These will be “ The Mayor of Casterbridge,’ | a new oPera by Peter Tranchell, based on | the novel of Thomas Hardy. which will hlvei its first performance at the Festival (July, 30); Marlowe's “ Doctor Faustus,” to be pro- | duced for ...

... The novelty of the evening was the first London performance of Britten's Op. 53, “Winter Words,” lyrics and ballads by Thomas Hardy. It would indeed be interesting to know why the composer chose these poems to set. They do not fit his music well with ...

... d by English readers. and it was remarkable how little Scott watered it down. English novelists writing dialect (e.g., Thomas Hardy and Dickens) were usually much readier to give only an approximation to the real thing. 'Scott was unwilling to secure ...

... to recover, was able to offer better terms, His firm, he added, published within the last 100 vears the first books of Thomas Hardy. George Meredith. Conan Doyle. W. W. Jacobs, John Buchan, and Maurice Walsh. They lost them all except the last-named to ...

... duo, are long overdue on L.P., although Alexander Young did well by them on an Argo disc. “ Winter Words,” settings of Thomas Hardy, had their premiere at the 1953 Leeds Festival. Far less consciously stylised than the Sonnets, their semi-declamatory ...