... Mw- tt'rf-* 0J>' W M THE HAND OF ETHELBERTA, A COMEDY IN CHAPTERS, by Thomas Hardy, author of Far from the Madding Crowd, &c. (2 vols.: Smith and Elder).-- This book is unquestionably the work of a true artist and humourist, and yet both the art and ...

... pianoforte, with a leading melody of pas toral character, and deserves to become popular. Four pianoforte solos by Harold Thomas Air Styrien, Chant de l'Ermite, Grand Scene de Ballet, and Valse Elegante are excellent specimens of his ability as a writer ...

... Windus) boasts of characteristic contributions from Wilkie Collins and Mark Twain and contains the opening of a novel by Thomas Hardy, entitled The Return of the Native. This latter bids fair to add to the high reputation of the author. A rather dull ...

... original novels of the author, nears the end. The interest is maintained with unfailing skill. The Return of the Native, by Thomas Hardy, continues to surprise and enchain by its sheer freshness, albeit it possesses marry another excellence as a story. Then ...

... long-time, is concluded worthily, the subtly artistic treatment of a complex and enthralling plot being preserved to the end. Thomas Hardy's curiously original novel, The Return of the Native, is continued, and we have a touchingly intense story, evincing unusual ...

... over-study and affectation in the language, as though the author were consciously imitating either Mr. Blackmore or Mr. Thomas Hardy, of both of whom we are continually being reminded. But the book as a whole will certainly, to say the least of it, not ...

... THE RETURN OF THE NATIVE, by Thomas Hardy (3 vols.: Smith and Elder).-- In this fine work-- perhaps the most artisti cally perfect that we have yet had from him-- Mr. Hardy more than retrieves the ground he lost in its immediate predecessor, The Hand ...

... are Miss Kate Phillips and Mr. Mackintosh, who have a scene of bucolic courtship just as it might be described in one of Thomas Hardy's delightful novels. There are Mr. Cathcart and Mr. Denny to express silent sympathy of the most unmistakable kind in their ...

... REVIEWS. Macmillan's has a memoir of Thomas Carlyle, which it is pleasing to read. It is written with the authority of one who knew much of Carlyle and of his motives, and is both thoughtful and sympathetic. The Archbishop of Dublin contributes a few ...

... and Mr. Thomas suggests that if brine were given, under regulations to prevent salt smuggling, fish caught far out at sea might be brought in in an eatable state. Indian fish-curing, too, is very badly managed. Useful as this part of Mr. Thomas's book ...

... a foreign play, but whether he has not rather unceremoniously helped himself to a novel of his fellow-countryman, Mr. Thomas Hardy. The piece is ours, in any case English nor could its admirable pictures of rural life possibly be other than English. ...

... style renders him no less eligible for the part of Sir Cliver, which he now assumes. Crabtree is played as of yore by Mr. Thomas Thorne with a true artistic sense of the humour of the dramatist's conception and Mr. Righton, who has a reputation for r ...