... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... loving summary on Barrie by Shaw, when G. B. S., tallest and probably handsomest of the distin guished pall-bearers at Thomas Hardy's funeral, remarked afterwards, Barrie, blast him looked far the most effective. He made himself look specially small. ...