... London, has been murdered near the village of Toban, iii Palestine. A story, entitledc The Return of the Native, by h3r Thomas Hardy, autbor of Far from the Mazdding Crowd, will be begun in the January number of Bel gravia. Mliss Betham-Edwards is ...

... illustrated by Mr Napier Hemy, the subjects being those coast scenes with which artists have already made us familiar. Thomas Hardy contributes a little tale, Interlopers at the Snap ; and The Armourer's TPrenrtices, by Charlotte MK. Yonge, is continued ...

... Arearica; a while William Dean Howells is particularly entertaining r in his literary autobiography this month in telling of Y Thomas Hardy and Tolstoy, and of the greatest literary r passion of his life. Dr Parkhurct fulfils the promise of ehis first article ...

... the subject of eight cbarmingillustrations, for which we are indebted to that prince of American artists, Edwin A. Abbey. Thomas Hardy writes about Wessex Folk, some of whose surround- ings and characteristics are pencilled by Charles Green end Alfred Parsona ...

... Socie'y opens with a well-written little story, Scarfaide. The anecdote corner is richer than ever. Frederick Arnold and Thomas Hardy contribute papers. Storied by French Novelists introduce us to Gaboriatt, the Poe, so to say, of France. The tale given ...

... violoncello players ; and Signor Bcvignani, pianist and conductor. EmenZZrEmiEN'T BY A CONMEDENTIAL CLIER.-A young man, named Thomas Hardy, was brought up nt- the Sunderland Police Court, on Fridiny last, on a cianrge of embezzling severalB sums of money, the ...

... of thehome lives and personali- ties of 'The Wives of Three Authors, Mrs George Wi, Cable, Mrs Conan Dnvle, and Mrs Thomas Hardy. being given an one page, * hife Prank S. Guild gives a sketch of ithe popular artiet, Alice Barber Stephens. and Ethel ...

... Victor Hugo is seventy-six, Tom Hughes is fifty-five, Froude is sixty, Ruskin is fifty-nine, Teairnson is sixty-nine, Thomas Hardy is only thirty-eight, W~iiiam Black is thirty-seven, and Bret Earie is thirty- nille. The private view day of the Royal ...

... inL future be published at six- pence. f The summer number of the Graphic wilt consist of a com-o plete story bay Mrk Thomas H~ardy, entitled ?? Adventures of a Milkmaid; and will be illustrated by Mir C. S. Rteinhart,- l The Present Lay lathe title ...

... be cast in bronze. 'she widow of the German poet, Uhland, cele- brated her 80th birthday at Stattgardt last month. Sir Thomas Hardy, the Deputy Keeper of the Record, lies at his house seriously ill. A costly wbrk, to be entitled Picturesque Russia, ...

... aq~aezene for the coming c year include a series of papers on the peasantry of various parts of the U~nited Kingdom. Mr Thomas Hardy is to do c the Dorseishire Labourer, Mirs Ofliohant the Sky Crofter, and 1AIr J~ustin McCarthy the Irish Cottier. Lord ...

... without a copy of these spirited poems, and Messrs Long- man's editions certainly afford sufficient variety of choice. 3tr Thomas Hardy is writing a new novel. The first in- stalment of it will appear in the A42theSlc Montldy for May. MrrW. Bell Scott has ...