... THOMAS HARDY, Mr Hardy is an unequal writer. He has his great moments, but is often dull and artificial. Although dealing so largely with peasant types and rustic situations, there is seldom anything idyllic in his treatment of them. It is in the tragic ...

... the peasant and middle-class life of the English Midlands of half a century ago. Of living novelists George Meredith and Thomas Hardy get precedence. GEORGE MEREDITH. The distinction of originality of style and method is undoubtedly his. But this very ...

... novel by Thomas Hardy. The April issue is without a hut “A Legend of Another World —original i:i conception, and beautifully uorkedont, will read with intense interest and pleasure. ( ...

... woman and man interprets the facts of life, consciously or unconsciously. Even rebel at life is to put interpretation it. Thomas Hardy, one of his norela, allows the thought to dominate the central haracter—that were never consulted as to oar desire about ...

... over the matter and hear a deputation from the Scottish Permissive Bill Association. The deputation consisted of Messrs Thomas Hardy, Manchester, Robert Mackay and Robt. Stevenston, Glasgow. The confe rence was h e ld i n the Good Templar's Hall, and was ...

... has beew privately informed )•> Mr that the delay in puhliahiug the index Kymer F*.-.K Huh he« the illness and of Sir Thomas Hardy. is new in active pit* pamtivn, however, and the complete volume %-xpvt» d to for isnuc the public at the ...

... letter* apology for absence, through Olnces or old age. wore sent by. amongst other*. Mr Thomas Burt, M.P., Frederick Harrison. Professor Mondsey. Lord Thomas Hardy, and George Meredith, the famous novelist*, R. J. M. Robertson. George Anderson etc., etc ...

... with which our readers are already familiar. Illustrations—Portrait of Professor Minto, and siews of the residences of Mr Thomas Hardy and Mr Rudyard Kipling. RECEIVED from the Drummond Depot, Stirling, a new packet— Chepstow Chips, or O'er True Tales. ...

... both publications begin new tale*. Good Word* begin two tales by authors of acknowledged merit—“ The Trumpet Major,by Thomas Hardy, and “Sarah de Berenger, by Jean Ingelow, better known as poet than tale-writer. Sunday Xaffazms also begins two tales ...

... of this unhappy boy it one of tbs saddest we remember—he ass got, even more than little Jade Pawley, an attack of what Thomas Hardy calls the ache modernism.’' wants two yean away from all books, learning all that garden and farm can teach him. He composes ...

... whether, in another lialf century. and Scott and Thackeray will compare influence »’ery favourably with George Meredith and Thomas Hardy end Mrs Humphry Ward, to name but three—oi* g they exert, greater influence, shall be, not i-ausc of their superiority ...

... Fnoal, wita»a said it vaejpoatiUe that the old bsttiog alip might bo carried that day for the purpose of aettuag old bet. Thomas Hardy, Ualteaats, said had bear only a month in Saltcoats, and was not very familiar with the people. Accused Lad been pointed ...