... hirsute arrangement of their physio4iiomy and upset our ideas of what they are like. When I first took en interest in Mr. Thomas Hardy his portraits shewed a beard now they shew only a moustache. Fifteen years ago I frequently met Mr. John Davidson the poet ...

... to convey a just idea of a performante to one who was•not prernt he pillages the verbal store. houses of other arts. Mr. Thomas Hardy, althnoch in hi, book. lose.: to de-cribe ohl houses. lives in a new 11011%9 de-ittned by not surprbine, fart when one ...

... interviews with certain notable people, mainly novelists and dramatists. I have been much interested in the talk with Mr. Thomas Hardy. Mr. Hardy tells how. as a youth, he used to write love letters for the Wessex village girls when their soldiersweethearts were ...

... pure literature his reading has been chiefly among old books. Mrs. Hinkson has read very few new hooks; while Mr. Thomas Hardy can name only one new work that has interested him. These confessions of the eminents have been variously commented on ...

... ma, Carlyle and Norie and the Nautical Almanac* were pitched away. and 1 had only the old Bible lett. A short story by Thomas Hardy is among the contents sf the May Trere is also a Ivory after Zangwill—a long way—written AoraNun CaMtn. the chronicler ...

... sat is down outside? The mention of Mr. Hardy's name reminds me that Mr. (Mario* Whibley hits an appreciation of the novelties work the J uly Thomas Hardy's Blackwood. Mr. Whibiey does restry. not share Mr. Hardy's own view that his poetry is bitter than ...

... can be compared with himself. I have myself heard Mr. Thomas Hardy express his gratitude to Meredith for reading his fiat book. which he described as very strange and wild, hut promising. Mr. Hardy has indeed said publicly that if it had not been for ...

... votes; Hall Caine gets 630 votes, Sir Conan Doyle 635, George Meredith and Marie Corelli each 349, and Mr. Barrie 337. Thomas Hardy is out of the list altogether. Even lan Maclaren has 90 more votes than the author of Far from Che Madding Crowd. And ...

... though. to be sure, we should not have liked to be without the famous line thus born of the midnight. It looks as if Mr. Thomas Hardy were coming into his full heritage of public favour at last. When he took the manuscript of his Under the Greenwood Tree ...

... :-an hardly imagine great and lasting literatnr.• ',riling from the pen of a man who calls himself Toni or Harry. If lr. Thomas Hardy called hire - Tom Manly. if Mr. Henry James himself H arry James, if Mr. SarinburtiP J elled himself awlsburne. it ...

... where am I to get my evening newspaper? For the newsboy does not frequent my suburb. Our greatest living novelist. Mr. Thomas Hardy, celebrated his birthday and received man) ma- Thew Hari grirtulations flow all parts of the woes. omintry. The new Macmillan ...

... wrote of a novel submitted by Mr. Thomas Hardy in 1868. This was The Poor Man and the Lady, Mr. Hardy's first attempt at fiction. It was never published, nor is it likely to be. having been suppressed at Mr. Hardy's own request, though accepted for ...