... literature. Some liar I shall att-supt an artic!• , nn au thors' perhaps artists'i Meson:lloe. waistcont practice of Mr. Thomas Hardy may be noted. When winter comes, he pot■ oe • thick waist• coat of sheep-skin in the old-fashioned country .tole. Then ...

... Broadbent has prepared for their benefit. The announcement that Mr. Thomas Hardy has a volume of pi).u.4 nearly ready for the press may come as a surprise to a good many people who know Mr. Hardy only as a noveliet. As a matter of fact, the author of 'Tess ...

... James Copeland, Wm. Archibald, Cumberland Logan, James Reid, Archibald Cockburn, Douglas M'Donald, Harry Thomson, Robert Hardy, Thomas Marshall. :lnd Attenda,oe—Girls--Catherine Bowman, Minnie Borland, Elizabeth Marshall, Bella Amos, Agnes Noble, Janet Drummond ...

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

... rolutue of short stories .y Mr. Thomas Hardy. Most 31 these have appearea serially, while Ar. Hardy has been writing his novels, but have never bes collected. 'The plan is to do this now, so adding another book to the Hardy library. His followers, knowing ...

... words, that be is human. Mr. Thomas Hardy has thoughts of collecting his unpublished short stories into another volume; or perhaps it would be more correct to say that he is being asked to take up this task. So far Mr. Hardy has publishei three volumes ...

... than a year's royalties on his books. It was owing to a happy coincidence connected with the name of his second book that Thomas Hardy obtained almost his earliest encouragement. Under the Greenwood Tree was lying neglected on a second-hand bookstall when ...

... wrote of a novel submitted by Mr. Thomas Hardy in 1863. This was The Poor Man and the Lady, Mr. Hardy's flat attempt at fiction. It was never published, nor is it likely to be. having been suppressed at Mr. Hardy own request, though accepted for p ...

... with the unhappy Royal home whose but embers were statms.il out as Culloden. According to Harper's Weekly, the first book Thomas Hardy ever wrote has never been published, and the man who persuaded him not to publish it was no other than George Meredith ...

... large circulations. Mr. Gladstone was much disappointed at the comparatively small sale of hie great edition of Butler. Mr. Thomas Hardy is paying his usual early summer visit to London. He is said to have made considerable progress during the winter and spring ...

... Mr. Howells opened the ball by obeesing Tolstoi. He did not, however, stop them, but miming to England picked out Mr. Thomas Hardy as our greatest worker in ficti on , an d nes t to him Mr. George Moore. In the latter choice he would not, we imagine ...

... a few authors 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 a ...