... leading journal at Christmas. It will he very difficult to replace him. A story, entitled The Return of the Native, by Mr Thomas Hardy, author of Far from the Madding Crowd, will be begun in the January manlier of BJr•aria. The scenes will chiefly be ...

... Tr:rt An exceedingly interesting interview with Mr. Thomas Hardy, our greatest living novelist, is printed in the Bestow Transcript. Thomas It illustrates again, and very Hardy. pointedly, Mr. Hardy 's hatred of sham optimism and his ...

... with much acceptance. The Church Guild met last Thursday evening, when Mr Jas. Stark, M.A., gave an excellent paper on Thomas Hardy, which was greatly appreciated. THE BROTHERHOOD. Mrs Cruikshank, secretary of the Scottish Sisterhood Union, was the speaker ...

... a Hundred liege. No. 1 Big Gun Carriage drawn by The Camel (led by Mr. Stephen Phillips), The Baby Elephant (led by Mr. Thomas Hardy), The Python Rock Snake (led by Mr J. . Barrie), and The Crocodile (led by Mr. William Watson), and sustaining Mr. Rudyard ...

... include talks with President Harrison, Mark Twain, James Russell Lowell, Oliver Wendell Holmes, W. 1). Howells, J. A. Fronde, Thomas Hardy, Cardinal Manning, &c. The book, for which Mr Grant Allen has written a smart preface, is the first of its kind, will be ...

... that our great English novelist, Mr. Thomas Hardy, is descended from the captain who shared so many a tough sea-fight with our one armed Admiral. An American paper says that in Donotehire the rustics refer to Mr. Hardy as him what Pots we in hooka And ...

... confess that, notwithstanding all that has been written on the subject, I should have liked to see the Wessex country of Thomas Hardy included, if only for the sake of the illustrations which would have been provided. Mr. Sharp must give us another volume ...

... could do to stick to my sketch, and not give myself up entirely to listening to his interesting and amusing stories. Mr. Thomas Hardy was not talkative as a sitter, but he was pleasant. lii appearance he did not present the idea of the p ieal literary man; ...

... literature do not seam to agree._ I regard it as something of an impertinence is Mr. G. K. Chesterton ainly to estimate Mr. Thomas Hardy as he does in • C recent book on Victorian Litersand Ha'dl'. tuns. Far too much attention is paid no Mr. Chesterton's obiter ...

... Forfarshire, a correspondent writes to the Scotsman that there is at present 'residing in the West Port a veteran eased Thomas Hardy, who served in Nelson's ship the great sea-fight,and who also took part asou of the crew of the Shannon, in the memorable ...

... nicker deottn.m. whirls iltr pressed Teethe. the more at every tura. deeper he went into Hardie ancient or modern. has found wens unequalled master a Mr. Thomas Hardy In his recent volume of atones the same old malt yoked mutts rule for the part. and hotn ...

... superiority. • • • I am always sorry to sae an eminent writer disturbed by Press opinions of his work. In a recent Preface, Mr. Thomas Hardy has condescended to notice objections . ' to certain details in his arresting story of Tess. One reader, he says. objected ...