... THOMAS HARDY AND MUSIC In the hiography of Thomas Hardy written by his widow, mention is made of his love of music in his boyhood days. At the age of 12 he was alrcady a violinist of some skill. Playing at village weddings and dances.was his favourite ...

... THE BURIAL OF THOMAS HARDY. (By The Rev. Herbert Crabtree), The morning was lowering and heavy as we muade our way to Westminster that we might take our place in the ancient Abbey for the nation’s last act of homage to a great Englishman. A little earlier ...

... NATION'S HOMAGE 7 THOMAS HARDY. In Wessex soil, dug from the garde? a humble friend, the ashes of T Hardy were laid to rest in the Poet’s €O at Westminster Abbey yesterday, | Premier, Mr. Ramsay MacDonald, and !‘ ing literary figures representing a nat ...

... Special . Anthems. Soloist: Miss Ethel Bond. Saturday evening, October 13th, Mr. James will lecture on “The Philotophy of Thomas Hardy.”” Chair to be taken at 7-30 p.m. Silver Collection. Collection at each service for Church Funds. You are earnestly inwvited ...

... MEETINGS FOUR IMPORTANT MEETINGS in CHUBRCH KIRK SCHOOLS. OCT. 11th: “ The Social Aspect of the Temperance Question;” Mr. THOMAS HARDY, of Manchester. NOV. Bth: “The Medical Aspect of the Temperance Question;” Dr. JOSEPH MORRIS, PhD., F.C.S. DEC. 13th: ‘ ...

... R | R The country mourns the passing of the last of the great Victorian novelists. Mr. Thomas Hardy died at his home, Max Gate, Dorchester, in his 88th year on Wednesday. He became famous as the author of ¢ Tess of the d'Urbervilles” and other novels ...

... HARDY'S prmsT NOVEL M'S'S‘ That Was Destroyed. e wThe first ngye that Thomas Hardy Yrghe Phell 27 Jears of age, was entitled 8 by lan aod the Lady,” but it was nev o Sir Edmund Gosse, writing in ngsuhday Timeg » Teveals the plot .of ,l“fi: 8t Vela 8 Telateq ...

... settlement than of the drawing.rocri. Of course, certain nanpies are courpletery “oft the map.” Stch a name is Judas, although Thomas Hardy uses its equivaient when he styles one of his novels “Jude the Obscure.” Arthur is usually the thin-lipped, designing ...

... HEART BURIAL CUSTOM The burial of the heart of Thomas Hardy, the poet-novelist, in a churchyard in his native Dorset, whilst his body was interred in Westminster Abbey, is a reminder of the fact that heart burial was an ancient custom which was common ...

... of thanks to the medical staff, the matron and her staff, and the officials and other helpers. He said that the late Mr. Thomas Hardy wrote that the true beauty of service lay not in its achievements but in its aims and impulses, and he thought those words ...

... but 'innuendo which bore the mark of genius; not surprisingly because it was written by writers of the calibre of Brecht, Thomas Hardy and even Shakespeare himself. The really lusty rhymes of the Hey lads, Hey variety were sung with an earthy eroticism ...

... players had to go into a hedger and ditcher’s chimleycorner every now and then to thaw them.” All that happened before Thomas Hardy was young, and that is a long time ago. Mellstock and Talbury Wood, situated on high ground eighteen miles north-east of ...