... By THOMAS HARDY, *tailor or Far From Madding Crowd, The IVoodlonderv, ire's Little Ironies, A The Well Beloved, k.. The person who, next to the actors themselves, chanced to know most of their story, lived near Top o' Town (as the spot wog ...

... MR THOMAS HARDY ON GHOSTS. In a real conversation between Mr Thomas Hardy, the novelist, and Mr William Archer, the critic, which is recorded in the April number of the Pall Mall Magazine, the question of ghosts came on the board. The following ...

... Half-price at Afternoons and on Tuesday Evenings only. THURSDAY, FRIDAY, SATURDAY— An All-Talking and Singing Version of the Thomas Hardy Classic, Under the Greenwood Tree. With Marguerite Allen, John Batten, Nigel Barrie. Screened at 6.45 and 8.50 p.m. (Saturday ...

... tourist : Mr. Thomas Hardy lives near here, doesn't he ? —Devonshire rustic:* 'Which Mr. Thomas Hardy?—Literary tourist: Why, the man who writes books.”—Devonshire rustic: Oh! I know naught about he ; but there be a Mr. Thomas ...

... A MOUE FUNERAL Mr. Eden Philpotts, who has been described as the Thomas Hardy of the Dartmoor Country, hat some fine scenes in his new book, Thep Whirlwind. Here is one curious account of a mock funeral: The manner of it was this. Suppose a mast and ...

... Sutcliffe's story, On Wiady Hill. Sir Clements Markham, K.C.8., F.R.S., write* on Objects of Polar Discovery, and Mr Thomas Hardy contributes Memories of Church Re:lteration, an address read before the Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings ...

... instalment , of Sir John Coindantu . .•. - by Mr A. T. Quitter-Couch, and of Chipping, 111 - Stanley J. Weyinen. Mr Thomas: Hardy cone^.• butes a lyric entitled Th.• Spring C_:l Ia A Talk with my Father Mr Walt.-r Frith put, min. dialogue form many ...

... evening. %%hen Mr lit:Hough, Assistant Professor of English in Edinburgh University, delivered a lecture on Thomas Hardy. Mr Pirie presided. Thomas Hardy, Mr Rullough said, aas a very difficult l.eof.osition to lecture on. He had not been dead long enough ...

... THOMAS HARDY'S PHILOSOPHY. In a passage in the preface to The Works of Thomas Hardy, Wessex Edition (Macmillan), the author deals with a frequent criticism passed upon the general tune of his philosophy. In the following characteristic words he makes ...

... Elder, and Co.) is about up to its usual standard. It leads off with a somewhat fanciful piece— The Soule of the Slain Thomas Hardy. An interesting article on Mistake in War, by Lieutenant-Colonel F. N. Maude. gives a thrilling account of the blundering ...

... composed at a nom youthful period. Mr George Meredith wrote The Ordeal of Richard Feverel before he was thirty-one. Mr Thomas Hardy haa never dose anything better than Far from the Madding Crowd, published when be was thirty-four. At twenty-four Mr ...

... ir.stalment of Rose of the World,' by Agnes and Egerton Castle, and The King's Revcke, by Mrs Margaret L. Woods. Mr Thomas Hardy contributes a narrative poem entitled The Noble Lady's Tale. The Art of Conversation is a lecture delivered by the ...