... starts on Wednesday. The four-day event will bring a mixture of art and music events, beginning on the Wednesday with a Thomas Hardy theme when folk group The Yetties reveal a littleknown side to the novelist. Thursday sees Charles Dickens’ great-great ...

... the door if available. esE AMPTHILL and Fli'wicl;’(‘);o-matic Society present The Day After The Foir,pbosod ona story by Thomas Hardy. The play, by Frank Harvey, runs nightly until November 21 ot Parkside Hall, Ampthill. Tickets are £4 and £3 concessions ...

... Hollywood than 18th century Hampshire. JUDE, starring Kate Winslet, is an altogether darker affair, as befits a novel by Thomas Hardy, Dorset’s favourite son. Soppy 28.1h(heonflngupon.lannary Coming of age drama BREAKING THE WAVES is on February 4 and a ...

... of the Wesley Guild held in the schoolroom on Monday evening. The Rev. Arthur T. Dean (Wolverton) gave a lecture entiled Thomas Hardy, an appreciation and a criticism ”. Mr. E. Peppitt presided. At the Friends’ Meeting House on Sunday evening a lecture ...

... the editorial comments keep one wondering about the habits townees, The Countryman “makes one feel in the country ” (as Thomas Hardy said)—and more than happy countryman if only he knew his good fortune! (to translate Virgil). ...

... in view of all that has place sine© they were written; th© section devoted to poetry contains whort poem from th© pen ot Thomas Hardy; and the book notices—the third of the permanent feature©—are, usual, brief and to the point. The new serial Joseph Conrads ...

... Fair, illustrated ; Royal Cortisso/. Thomas Hardy, portrait by H. W. Preston. The Autobiography of Salvini, with portrait. Sarah Siddons, with portrait; by Edmund Goose. Old Portsmouth Profiles, illustrated; Thomas Bailey Aldrich. An Artist’s Letters from ...

... Grant Allen, Mr. Anstey, the author of * Vice Versi,’ Mr. W. Black, Lady Buufil{, Prof. Bryce, Mr. Freemau, Mr. Froude, Mr. Thomas Hardy, Mr. W. D. Howells, Prof. Huxley, Miss Ingelow, Mra. Oliphant, Dr Swmiles, Mr. L. Stevenson, Mr. Julian Sturgis, and Prof ...

... man’s Magazine for the present year include a series of papers on the peasantry of various parts of the United Kingdom. Mr. Thomas Hardy is to do the Dorsetshire Labourer, Mrs. Oliphant the Skye Crofter, and Mr. Justin McCarthy the Irish Cottier. ...

... respect ? Perhaps it has lacked a champion in the form of a distinguished artist or writer. We cannot boast a Constable or Thomas Hardy, though a number of great men of letters have at times been pleased to live and work hereabouts— Cowper at Olney, Edward ...

... Sterne, Smollett, Frances Burney, June Austin, Sir Waller Seotl, \V. M. Thackeray, Charles Dickens, George Eliot”. Mr. Thomas Hardy, and Mr. Kipling. discussion class 1 ...

... Ambrose Gauntlett (’cello). Rene Soames sang a series of very beautiful songs, some of them settings of poems by Shakespeare, Thomas Hardy, and Walter de la Mare exquisite poeti-y linked to music of rare charm. Among his selections was the first concert performance ...