... haZ coat, it is said, over £10,000. Mr J. Ashby Sterry has written a novel under the title of ' A Tale of the Thames. Mr Thomas Hardy has theughts of extend. ing hisstory, ThePursuit of the Well-Beloved, into a full-blown novel. This story was written ...

... palmistry. Among the bands dealt with are those of Mr Glad- stone, Lord Wolselsy, Sir Frederick Leighton, Sir Sir Evelyn Wood, Thomas Hardy, and John Oliver Hobbes. Messrs William Hodge & Co., Glasgow, have in the press, and will shortly publish, a volume of ...

... features of the Christmas number of the Illustrated Londoae News will be a story of the French Revolu-; tioc, by Afr Thomas. Hardy, entitled A Comri mittee Man of 'The Terror,' and a ghost story by Mr F. Marion Crawford. Mr Louis Becke will shortly ...

... Mehalis, Dora Ru~sell, Joseph Hatton, Adeline Sargeant. Jessie fFothergill, Hall Caine, W. E. Norris, G. A. Henty, i. Thomas Hardy, and the author 'of Molly Bawn. It e will be observed that four out of the ten are women. Mr Ruskin has given his consent ...

... sister of the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland, which is to be published under the title of Outlines, and dedicated to Mr Thomas Hardy, who, it is under- stood, has expressed a favourable opinion upon the work. Dr Smiles is making considerable progress with ...

... . The Oornhill Magazine (Smitih, Elder, -and Co.) for April provides its readers with an excellent bill of fare. Ar Thomas Hardy . ontributes some delightful verses on 'The Souls of the Slain, from which it would be impossible to quote without quoting ...

... Siddons, t and Signor Salvini contributes the fourth in- 8 stalment of his very interesting Leaves of a Autobiography. Thomas Hardy has for a f, good many years held a tolerably wide 1 reputation as an English novelist, and 'I his most recent book Tess ...

... Impressions of Anglo-Indian Life d will have special value. The complete I stories are numerous and good. The serial by Thomas Hardy, Heart's Insurgent is T finished, It has been of the erotic tommy- rotic order-a modern form of novel that is most ...

... of Andrew LWng The short tales in this number are of unusual oxcellence, amongst the number being one Con- 'tributed by Thomas Hardy, and entitlhed The First Countess ofWessex.' Amnong- 1,o poetical pieces is oe by li. D.- Blaokn' re, entitled Bu cn4b ...

... note-book and elaborated, perhaps months afterwards. Amongst other novelists sketched in these in. teresting papers are Thomas Hardy, Walter lLesant, James Payn, Rider Haggard, 11. L, Stevenson, George Macdonald, and f George Meredith. Speaking of the ...

... Emerson, Carlyle, Robert Brown- ing, George Eliot, George 'MacDonald, the Scottish school of fiction, Mrs Humphre~r Ward, Thomas Hardy, and' George Meredith. Carlyle and George Eliot have already been dealt with by M3r R. H. Hutton, but in Dr Wilson's treatment ...

... his own attractive way, with I Memories of Fountainbleau. Among the other contributors are G. A. Sala, Alfred Austin, Thomas Hardy, (whose story, On the NVestern Circnit, is a bit of the crispest fiction imaginable), Baron Nordenskiold, C. Anstrut ...