... because they aim too high. A public that a devours tens of vthousands;of a new novel by George Eliot or William -Black, or Thomas Hardy, shows' its capacity to rise to the level of the a most fastidious of the Boston penmen. There is a rude, sentimental multitude ...

... Blackmore, Mr Black, Mr Stevenson, Miss Braddon, Mr Hall Caine, Mr Walter Besant, Mr Conan Doyle, Mr Marion Crawford, Mr Thomas Hardy, Mr James Payne. There is, however, said to be Practically very little difference in the sums paid to all included in the ...

... Professor Kennedy, Edinburgh: Princi- pal Stewart, St Andrews ; the late Professor Milligan. Rev. Peter Anton, Kileyth ; Rev. Thomas Hardy, Fowlis Wester, Perthshire- Rev. Dr MIClymont, Aberdeen B Rev. John Liddell, Adrvie, Strathapey ; Rev. James i 'rlachlan ...

... oontrotiv Entriligrilfc. LON 3DO N. Rear-Admiral Sir Thomas Hardy, G.CU., one of the Lords of the Ad- miralty, is to succeed the late Sir Richard Keats, as Govenior of Greenwich Hospital. Sir Dudley Hill is to succeed the late General Farqrldarson as ...

... current, was marri- ed here, John Smith Bradlhaw, Efq; to Mifs i Ogilvy, eldeft daughter of SirJohn Ogilvy, Bai t. t The Rev. Thomas Hardy, D. D. one of I the minilters of this city, and Regius Pro- c feffor of Church Hi fory and I);vinity in the I Univerfity ...

... yoars ago at the Gaiety Theatre. The liabilities do not exaeed £700. Mr Rudvard Kipling i8rambling in Dorsetaidro w with Mr Thomas Hardy. o A Prois newspaper saya that M. Felix Faure will make a long tour in Algeria next March with his wife and daughter. Plymouth ...

... probably, of a precautionary nature only, but it is said that a British fleet wvill certainly put to sea shortly, and that Sir Thomas Hardy will take the ?? 'Paper. Wefeelthe greatest possible satisfaction in announcing that naval surgeons and assistant surgeons ...

... has cost, it is said, ever £lO,OOO. Mr J. Ashby Starry baa written novel under the title of A Tale of the Thames. Mr Thomas Hardy has theughts of extending his story, the Well-Beloved,” into a full-blown novel. This story was written three or four years ...

... whence she sailed onu y the 1.th of August, with Lieut. Hibbert on board, g bringing dlispatches for Government from ?? Sir 'Thomas Hardy. Licut. I-Jibbert left Chili onl the loth n of July, and has brought the Chili Gazettes, from swhich s it appears that ...

... without having some momenta of inspiration. Lan declared, in a recent interview, that he considered Mr J. M. Barrie, Mr Thomas Hardy, and Mr George Meredith the three foremost living writers of fiction in this country, and that Mr Barrie was in his opinion ...

... s cheek. Two well-dressed men have been arrested. A GEORGIAN LYING IN STATE. - A letter, dated January, 1725, from Sir Thomas Hardy to Robert, one of the great Pitt family then resident in Bath, and printed in the 13th report of the Historical Manuscript ...

... he in rendered renmunerative by its enormous circulation. el Thle chief contributor to the letterpress this ?? 's is Mr Thomas Hardy, the author of Far Fliuun the Madding Crowd,' who writes of A ( i oupi of Noble Women in a series of tales, suppotied ...