... then was always a literary, school which quietly maintained the claim of Thomas Hardy to • prem ship in British Action. Now that Meredith is gone the position of Hardy unquestionable, and the Anthers' Club could Dot have dose a greeter honour to timid ...

... death of George Meredith he a easily our first writer of fiction. Many men have made bi 3 repo tat ion,. story-written nine Thomas Hardy first become known, but he remains head and abouldera above them as artist and philosopher. ...

... Howell.. Pentre, girls' solo, thiaist pled y meusydd. - Catherine Thomas, Treority: recitation. Mr. J. Howells: soprano eon. Y golomen wen. - Hiss A. Darla.. Ton: englTn. Mr. David Thomas. Hardy: baritone solo. Tr °retest. divided between Mr. James Davies ...

... Plolipotts. U. B. Marriott Watson. Rev 8. Bann. Gould. Stepney Rawson. J A Batty, and Roma While. with a characteristic poem by Thomas Hardy. These Garin. aro Illustrated by leell.known artists. Tan plates an given away with the numbeo—Lady Cram. from portrait ...

... movement. LONDON LNI'ITER. WIDE SYMPATHY WITH EARL ~C 1 DOUAN. LONG SERIES OF FAMILY BEREAVEMENTS. SEVENTIETH BIRTHDAY OF MR. THOMAS HARDY. LONDON. TNIIIIDAT PUGET. The greatest. sympathy a expramed today with Earl on the mad death of ha little grandson and ...

... Saturday loft We. IS. Dourologaarant. to I ln the country. dudes MadNW learn tram that Judd, ui ad then I Thomas Hardy Me CAMes. Mr Thom. Hardy Us used Dorset of Ws new Pt. Judge's It a that ban bac Owed to confer Wed Yr. Jon** now bwud ' Mr. W. tor ...

... honours will derive satisfaction from the addition to the Order of Merit announced yesterday. It is now the turn of Wessex: Thomas Hardy has succeeded to the vacancy in that Order caused by the death of George Meredith. The knight- bred conferred on the architect ...

... nominate members for the forthooming eleotions. The nominations were. County council- Mr. H. .1. Thomas. confecnoner: board of guardians. Mr. Thomas Williams. (hardy tpreseut mart/Liar. and Mr. Harold Corps; arban district oounrtl Mr. Williams Raley MY. Alfred ...

... Mr. H. W. LAWSON (the Daily Telegraph):— I read it with great pleasure,. because of its fine literary Favour. Mr. THOMAS HARDY:— It seems to me to have a thoughtfulness of tone and a real literary quality which must recommend it to all wine households ...

... Malta. Leah. Bundle has returned to from leave with lady Bundle, and two:mei bit as Uonernor. A NerelleVe Mooelleothm. Br. Thomas hardy. on whom the freedom of tiorcbem,r to he conferred. remembers wing a men in the Inaba sitting us the wirisbin• with hies ...

... doubt. HOMO IL Is literary tacks much gratification is expremed at the inclusion of Mr. Thomas Hardy m the roll of the Order of Merit. Its the only honour that Mr. Hardy has over wished for or would have =t. He might have had a knightug ago, but did not tare ...

... Fielding, Defoe, Richardson, Scott, Dickens, Tbackeray. Charlotte Brants., George Eliot, Charles Reade, down— George Meredith. Thomas Hardy, J. M. Barrie, and so on. from the realm of poetry you get all the great masters, beginning with Homer and the other poets ...