... vesterday there came a Tasc e\oinple ot Mr. Hardy's signature, it cheque he drew only ou Monday in pay- ment of tus annual to the Society of Authors. At 87 he could still hil mn heque and write * Thomas , Hardy with firm, unwavering penman- ship That cheque ...

... and Choapest Cinema in Leeds. Qi. Meurs Programme of Pictures and Music. “THE MAYOR OF CASTERBRIDGE.” From the Nove! by Thomas Hardy, 0.M. Featuring Wm. Duncan and Edith Johnson, “ Steelheart * Drama. CHARLIE CHAPLIN, IN “ PAY DAY.” ** PAY GRAND ORGAN ...

... When Hardy Danced. Mr, John Drinkwater, when he gave readings last uight to members of the Nationa Book Council in London, told hirthdav celebration. something of Thomas Hardy’s joyous 85th Mr. Drinkwater read a poem he wrote to Thomas Hardy ...

... found abun doned last vigbt in the Calls, Leeds. wun cliumed to-day by owner, and tohen back to Hull. YAL SYMPATH Mrs, Thomas Hardy has received messago ef from King and Queen. ...

... CROWD. Mr. Thomas Hardy, O.M., who yesterday Ge tered his eeventy-ninth soar, is sponding the evening of hie days “far from the madding at his quiet home near Dorchester. His health remains excellent. Ten years ego (says “Tho Yorkshire Mr. Hardy said he ...

... district. place of Bott at Inside right. Team:—Slddall. Guest. Simpson; Dixon. L. Red earn. Red fern; Hollyoak, Sadler. Thomas. Hardy. Cawthorne. ...

... assistant. shop close \ There was also a raw-boned His nam frishman rolling about London. was Bernard Shaw. There was another Thomas Hardy. and there was a voung journal ist. struggling tor a living an whose name was Barrie. ...

... Museum Fakes and Fergertes. The announcement that a Thomas Hardy manuecript sented to the Museum ae many peop! peculate on the num forged or other, fi a whi ich ma An T ‘today, pet the museum a anmbep of ‘fakes’ of one kind or conmonities. + are ‘Jabelled ...

... Nardy. Max Gate, the roomy, unpretentious house on the outskirts of Dorchester, where the Prineg of Wales takes tea with Thomas Hardy to-day, was designed by the poct himself. first choice of a profession was archi. tecture, which he studied in London, ...

... Mr. Vaniman aa a mascot BOO raddon, who has written 72 ‘novels in \the half s century, has a great admiration for the f Thomas Hardy. “I can admire ‘Jude the as profound study of human nature, but it morte painful to read the story of melancholy se tho ...

... and old. For the purpose of playing Rugby football man may be too old at 30; but for the purpose of writing poetry Thomas Hardy at 80 was more vigorous than most young poets their twenties. ...

... caso of the meat-eaters first, and the rest almost nowhere—the vege- tarian ducks being the most meagre of the lot. Mr. Thomas Hardy, who will celebrate his 72nd birthday, to-morrow, is the only survivor of the great novelists of the Victorian Era Dickens ...