... publisher. It was Tinsley, too, who missed • profitable business with Mr Thomas Hardy. He published Mr. Hardy's first novel, Desperate Remedies, which wont very flat. Then Hardy tried him again with that charming idyll Under the Greenwood Tice. This ...

... to oe found in - Burke has come to be a village publican in Buckinghamshire is one of those romances of genealogy which Thomas Hardy turned to such admirable account in of the Durbervilles. - In every shire of England there are scattered humble descendmits ...

... to the clam of readers %%hum gum. tious of authorship are quite irrelevant. In reality it is a transmogrification of Mr. Thomas Hardy'« story of nearly thirty years ago, **The Romantic Adventures of a Milkmaid. Its typographical errors are such as would ...

... Gerald du Maurier, George Grossmith, Sir Charles Hawtrey, Charles Keen, Beerbohm Tree, Charles °Wyndham, Arnold Bennett, Thomas Hardy, but it is scarcely fair to complete the list for I feel very certain that ail these have their hosts of admirers who will ...

... of the magazine there is an appreciative study of Thomas Hardy and the Wessex Novels, which will be read with great interest by all Mr. Hardy's admirers. Comparativ ly little is known about Mr. Hardy, but it is this very fact, hie aloofness from man ...

... few author, of rare gifts to make the actual scenery more interesting than the characters, but that it can be done• Mr Thomas Hardy proves very conclusively in his wonderful study of Egdon Heath in that fine story. The• Return of the Native;•' and to ...

... himself and departed. Calling the smoke-room attendant, Mark Twain asked him who he had been elmversing with. That's Mr. Thomas Hardy, air l replied the steward, impressively. When Time, the old ravager, Mr. Aug' tine Birreli once wrote, ham done hie ...

... ills. pressed Tacitus the more at every turn, the deeper he went into history, Thomas Hardy's ancient or modern. has found ita Irony. unequalled master in Mr. Thomas Hardy. In his recent volume of stories the same old malevolent spirits rule for the most ...

... been caused by ages of social tyranny, and that the social question is at bottom a religious question. Of later writers Thomas Hardy and It. L Stevenson stand apart. The religious novel appeared with George Macdonald and did much to iuduence contemporary ...

... not do it. I feel I am wasting precious time in reading stuff that is only meant to make me laugh. I would rather read Thomas Hardy and George Gissing. who are both dubbed pessimist simply because they write what is true. Apart from thii, I agree with ...

... in each case bow it is coloured by religion. • • There is something seriously wrong with oar . .7opyright Laws when Mr. Thomas Hardy has to complain that • twersty-five-years-old story of his, which appeared originally in • provincial newspaper, has been ...

... Broadbent has prepared fur their benefit. The announcement that Mr. Thomas Hardy hag volume of poems nearly rtady for the press may come as a surprise to a good many people who know Mr. Hardy only as • novelist. As a matter of fact, the author of Tess has ...