... Melbourne journals report case that would possess a literary interest for Mr. Thomas Hardy. Zeba Summer, a well-known bee farmer, was recently sued by his wife for maintenance. The wife stated that she had been married 25 years, and had six children living ...

... Teapot of Admiral Hardv THOMAS HARDY outlived Nelson by many years and appointed the latter's old servant. Tom Allen, pewterer at Greenwich Hospital, he himself having been made Governor in 1834. So Tom may well have polished Thomas's teapot! It was made ...

... door. “Mr. Hardy lives near here, doesn’t he?” h® inquired. “Which Mr. Hardy?” asked the old woman. Why, Mr. Thomas Hardy,, who writes books, replied the astonished pilgrim. “ Oh, I know naught about him,” said the woman, “ but there be a ...

... does, your novel grow With wonderful bis'tries and family mys’triee. Which puzzle as all in a tow. I'm somewhat tardy, Thomas Hardy, How does your novel grow » flighty young creature's the principal feature. And clodhoppers all in a row. Now, Rider Haggard ...

... Bath, which it acknowledges as the leading places on the line. The sword stands for Bath, and the castles for the town of Thomas Hardy and the Wessex novels. The crest of that greatest of British railways, the London and North-Western, might well be mistaken ...

... soldier without dying, and a lover without sighing. Sir Kdwin Arnold. A lover without indiscretion is rib lover at all. Thomas Hardy. They're ideally matched. He gets extra bacon and she gets priority eggs. Laugh Lines T KNOW I'm not much to look at,’’ ...

... interesting theory, and one which might make managers give a little more attention to psychology. The Old Lion of Dorset. IVAR. Thomas Hardy, the great poet and artist of Wessex life, still follows events with the keenest interest despite his advanced age and ...

... PLANTERS. The June Cornliill opens fsays the “Academy”) with a poem called “The Fir Planters,” by Mr. Thomas Hardy, The verses are characteristic of Mr. Hardy's later work—they have the note of weariness and dejection. A “sad-faced woman holds the tree upright ...

... fell in the War of the Union (Civil War) 1361-1865. Thomas Hardy waa bom at Upper Brockfaampton, near Dorchester, in which district he has lived practically the whole of his long -and busy life. Hardy writer of Pastoral novels, both tragedy and comedy ...

... romance of the Yorkshire coast of the eighteenth century. Mr. Fletcher, as everybody knows, is Yorkshire’s novelist, just as Thomas Hardy belongs to Wessex. The story is largely centred round Scarborough and neighbouring places, and readers spending their holidays ...

... engaged in mishing a scries of philosophical works which had begun when he was forte. Our own Grand Old Man of liurature, Mr. Thomas Hardy, said that he only knew was “old” by the thousands of congratulatory letters which he received his seventieth birthday ...

... novel of Thomas Hardy’, as it appeared in a popular magazine will be somewhat surprised and perhaps shocked at the variations of the text in book form from that of its serial form. Much the same thing happened in the case of another novel of Mr. Hardy’s, and ...