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RAMBLING WITH DR. GOGARTY: Another Book of Memoirs from the Convivial Irishman

... 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 ...

Published: Saturday 12 August 1950
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1423 | Page: 34 | Tags: Review 

THOMAS MERTON, PROSELYTE: AND THE SEQUEL TO THE ROAD TO DAMASCUS

... 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 ...

Published: Saturday 02 December 1950
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 808 | Page: 38 | Tags: Review 

CHAPLIN--UTRILLO--KOESTLER: Biography and Autobiography at the Head of a Varied Assortment of New Books in the ..

... 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 ...

Published: Saturday 15 November 1952
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1661 | Page: 38 | Tags: Review 

WORTHIES of CORNWALL and DORSET

... 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 ...

Published: Saturday 23 May 1953
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2089 | Page: 36 | Tags: Review 

ROYALTY IN THE VICTORIAN ERA

... Dorchester in 1847-4S, seven years after Hardy's birth, the reader of school-leaving age will be able to sort it out for himself and after that to enjoy a great deal of Thomas Hardy (Hogarth Press. 25s.), by Miss Evelyn Hardy, a critical biography of a writer ...

Published: Saturday 30 January 1954
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1782 | Page: 36 | Tags: Review 

A TRIBUTE TO FRIENDSHIP: Lady Cynthia Asquith's Study of J. M. Barrie; A Scholarly Study of the Development of ..

... of him, and it is just this personal and episodic method that has given her book of memoirs its freshness and intimacy. Thomas Hardy that quietest figure in literature, as Barrie described him was often a visitor at the Adelphi fiat G. K. Chesterton, ...

Published: Saturday 11 December 1954
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1518 | Page: 40 | Tags: Review 

A NURSERY CHRISTMAS: Recollections of a Child's Christmas Holiday in the Country in the Edwardian Era; Bernard ..

... old-world charm. Thomas Hardy's Notebooks (Hogarth Press, ios. 6d.) include two of those he kept between 1867 and 1928, with excerpts from a third kept in an interim period between 1878 and 1880. The editor of this small, scholarly and, to Hardy lovers, immensely ...

Published: Saturday 17 December 1955
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1667 | Page: 38 | Tags: Review 

THE CHIEF OF FLEET STREET: A Biography of Lord Northcliffe; Votes For Women and the Pankhursts; A Composer and ..

... September 1 2. SIR LAURENCE OLIVIER IN CORIO- LANUS AT STRATFORD-UPON- AVON: Above From the left are: Sicinius Velutus (Robert Hardy); Coriolanus (Sir Laurence Olivier); Menenius (Harry Andrews); Co- minius (Paul Hardwick); Titus Lartius (Donald Eccles); and ...

Published: Saturday 15 August 1959
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2059 | Page: 41 | Tags: Review 

ABOUT THOMAS HARDY: A new memoir of the novelist; other literary reflections; Barbara Goolden's new novel heads ..

... ABOUT THOMAS HARDY A new memoir of the novelist; other literary reflections; Barbara Goolden's new novel heads this week's fiction Thomas Hardy was an old man when he died, his ashes buried in Westminster Abbey and his heart in the Dorset he had loved ...

Published: Saturday 07 April 1962
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1466 | Page: 31 | Tags: Review 

GLORIOUS DEVON: Walking on Dartmoor

... links with Kipling. At nearby Appledore, Jerome K. Jerome lived for a time. Barnstaple, of course, has been featured by Thomas Hardy, while the Doone country of Somerset overlaps the Devon border on the wild western edges of Exmoor. Thackeray belongs farther ...

Published: Saturday 29 June 1963
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1221 | Page: 27 | Tags: Review 

GONE TRAVELLING: Christmas in Bethlehem

... 000 ft. volcanic peak has repeatedly aroused the world's imagina tion. In 1961 the little colony, founded by the landing of Thomas Currie in 1810, was finally forced to evacuate in the face of an eruption which, as ill chance had it, was focused on the ...

Published: Saturday 04 January 1964
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 873 | Page: 27 | Tags: Review