... were living a number of writers whose best work was done,- buj who, so far as we knew, might even then have surprised us. Thomas Hardy published no novel after the turn of the century and Barrie's Sentimental Tommy had appeared in 1896, but since William ...

... 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 ...

... police commis sioner, Theo Hardy, resolved to rid his city of thuggery and corruption, is up against a gang planning a million-dollar jewel snatch. The resulting tussle has all the excitement of a thriller film, and in Hardy a stout fighter to whom A ...

... 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 ...

... writes Mr. Anthony Weymouth, in his book called Of London and Londoners (Williams and Norgate, 21s.), to picture those hardy ancestors of ours, paddling their coracles through the lake, disembarking at the base of Holborn Hill, then mounting the slope ...

... in the Arts Theatre Festival of Britain play competition, is to be staged at the Arts on July 18, for three weeks. Laurence Hardy, so good recently as Ishak in Hassan, will be Gainsborough in Cecil Beaton's The Gainsborough Girls, which begins at Brighton ...

... and a delicious miniature of aged rascality by Deidre Doyle. Tess of the D'Urbervilles, Ronald Gow's play based on the Thomas Hardy story, came from the Theatre Royal, Bristol. For all we care it might have stayed there, for modern television dran a technique ...

... cardinal sin in the eyes of abolitionist and secessionist alike was that he grew richer and richer while they did not. Mr. Robert Hardy Andrews writes of Denver and gold rushes con brio and, as far as one can judge, with authenticity. I could count on one hand ...

... Second Mrs. Tanqueray, with Mrs. Patrick Campbell in the lead deal with the potentialities of rising novelists such as Thomas Hardy and Robert Louis Stevenson describe a cosy dining-out occasion with a multi-course meal at a total cost of a shilling or ...

... astonishing life. BEBE DANIELS and Ben Lyon have had something of a life, too, though in a vastly different milieu. Both were hardy troupers before they came here in their early thirties to make films, star in variety, boom in Hi-Gang I; and feature the family ...

... facets, his relations with his family, his local friends and distant correspondents, and something of his great influence on Thomas Hardy. What comes clearly from these pages, however, is the impression that, besides being a man of extraordinary talents, he ...

... and bound, these are books for daily and personal use, both in the class-room and by the fire. YOUR LIBRARY LIST THOMAS HARDY. By Evelyn Hardy. Hogarth Press 25*.) THE BRIDGES OF BRITAIN. By Eric de Mar*. (B. T. Ratsford, Ltd. 42*.) LIFE AMONG THE SAVAGES ...