... Insurance Committee. The Guardians are also hoping to see a reduction in their out-relief bill. THOMAS HARDY AHD THE NARY. Some interesting memories of Thomas Hardy, the great We.sex novelist and homage this week, are recalled by Commander Frederick Medway ...

... It is recounted that when Thomas Hardy wee being urged by his publisher to hare a press agent he firmly refused, sepias, No, no. Egg. sell according to their excellence. and not according to the amount of cackling that was done wises they were hod. ...

... of a University for Wessex. In partienlar, the conception of a Chair of English Literature, to be founded in honour of Thomas Hardy. the creator of Weems as we know it, seems to no to be particularly felicitous, and to give to the general scheme a• more ...

... should be prepared for the reception of the organ.—[Canon IVileon's reeerd may' recall to souse Gazette readers the way Thomas Hardy deal• with a similar musical change in his novel. Under the Ureenwood Tree. ...

... foreman of the jury, who returned a verdict of not guilty. and theprieoner was discharged. A paper on the philosophy of Thomas Hardy is forthcoming on Monday. ...

... THO. LONG VIIIIN Thomas Hardy In the closing scenes uf The Dynasts makes Napoleon say after the flight from Waterloo:— So. as It is. a miss-mark they will dub me; And yet—l found the crown of Trance in the mire. And with the point of my prevailing ...

... Bognor had not heard of Thomas Hardy, the Wessex writer. Now I claim to be a good Dorset man, being very proud of my county, and I hero beeu anchored at Bognor for some years. I also claim a distant relationship to Thomas Hardy by marriage, and as I can ...

... such in onr towns. THE PROFITS OF PESSIMISM HARDY'S C 91,000. Students of human nature, and those who feel in duty bound to try to love it, are somewhat interested and amused by the tact that Mr. Thomas hardy died worth L9I,OUU. Some pessimists of the ...

... WONT WEIGHT LOAVIS Owner of a business founded by his grandfather In 1110. Thomas Hardy, of York-rd., wu summoned for expcoing short-weight broad for sale. Calling at Ns shop, Inspector Maid that 13 loam out of 11 weighed were deficient In weight, In ...

... Worthing to Bodiaro. MR. THOMAS HARDY'S 83rd BIRTHDAY. Mr. Thomas Hardy, the doyen of signal/ letters, whore %IMAM nasals are well known to lowa of rural hadland. eleifrated Out weak Ilird birthday. la ear evening Mr. Hardy renetved a ...

... But irony is a confession of failure. In every age, the satirist is a man frustrated, and even when, as in the case of Thomas Hardy or Anatole France, his irony ia .founded on • profound pity for humanity. it is acknowledgment of defeat. Analysed, it ...

... Libraries Osmsaittes took pleosat the Technical Institute, the lecturer being the Rev. W. Silver, 8.D.. whine subject was Thomas Hardy. Othncillor T. Dover Williams presided over a large audience , The Corporation Motor 'Bus Department has incurred since ...