... Yes; quaint and curious war is! You shoot a fellow down You'd treat if met where any bar Is. Or help to half a crown. —Thomas Hardy, In Harper's Weekly. ...

... Toronto, Robert Simpson, aged 92. Jackes—March 7, Eglinton, Dr. George W. Jackes, aged 51. Hardy—March 7, Toronto, Thomas Hardy, aged 67. Cook—March 7, Toronto, Thomas T. Cook. Douglas—March 9, Toronto, Richard Douglas, aged 67. Osier—March 8, Eglinton, Rev ...

... G. Wells, entitled Ann Veronica. will be issued in a few weeks. Henry James also has a story ready for publication. Thomas Hardy has disappointed his admirers by writing, not a new novel, but a volume of verse called Time's Laughing Stocks and Other ...

... hav-.: I, Nor a thread of her hair, No mark of her late time as dame in her dwelling, whereby I may picture her there. —Thomas Hardy. ...

... until recently principal librarian of the British Museum. Dr. Garnett says: Amcng living writers, George Meredith and Thomas Hardy stand nearest to the height reached by writers of the middle century—Carlyle, Ruskin. Tennyson. Thackeray, Dickens. and ...

... which embodies recollections of his youth. It is illustratel by A. B. Frost. Prominent English writers are Walter Bmant and Thomas Hardy. The American short story is exhibited at its best by such masters of the art as Bret lisrte, Henry James, George ...

... Books and Their Makers. THOMAS HARDY, the novelist, is quoted by the Pall Mall Magazine as saying that he has no sympathy with the criticism which would treat English as a dead language—a thing crystallized at an arbitrarily selected stage of its existence ...

... I'll'l'A I'ASSES.—A favourite poem by Robert Browning. Exquisitely produced. Twodollars. WESSEX POEMS AND OTHER VERSES. — By Thomas Hardy, the great novelist. Illustrated by the author's own hand, Si 75. A WOMAN TEN DER FOOT.— By Grace Gallatin-Thompson. You ...

... clamored code, I saw, In web unbroken, Its history outwrought Not as the loud had spoken, But as the dumb had thought. —THOMAS HARDY. Wit and Wisdom From New Books. From the December Era. The world may doom you to plain living, but only you can deny ...

... Every page framed in an appropriate decorative design. Cloth, decorated. two dollars. IVE 4 SEX POEMS AND OTHER VERSES. By Thomas Hardy. the great novelist. All his admirers will be delighted to have this fine collection, illustrated by his own hand. Cloth ...

... think I'm killed. Rut when I was half-way down the stairs, ma'am, thinks I, I'm a-going to lose my pension, sure !' • Thomas Hardy, the novelist, when he was looking about for a country home to settle down in some years ago, was greatly taken by a spot ...

... shown to wealth and genius: The nation would read with amazement that the King had gone to spend the end of a week with Thomas Hardy or with Oliver Lodge, but without amazement it reads of kingly visits to the Sasscons or the Wilsons. For Wealth the who:e ...