... 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 Thomas Hardy has thoughts of collecting his unpublished short stories into another volume; or perhaps it would be more correct to say that he is being asked to take up this task.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 ...

... delicate humour; it Mese Corelli became frivolously refined: if Mr. Henson himself tried a book in the Tolstoy vein; if Mr. Thomas Hardy grew gay—their reneging circles of readers would feel that they had been done. Mr. Benson need not bother about new tricks ...

... hirsute arrangement of their physiognomy and upset our ideas of what they are like. When I first took an interest in Mr. Thomas Hardy his portraits chewed a beard; now they ehew only a moustache. Fifteen years ago I frequently met Mr. John Davidson the ...

... 816 votes; Hall Caine gets 630 votes, Sir Conan Doyle 635, George Meredith and Mane Corelli each 349, and Mr. Barrie 337. Thomas Hardy is out of the lint altogether. Even lan Maclaren has 90 more voter than the author of Far from the Madding Crowd. ...

... not dissimilar experience with Thomas Hardy, whose Ent novel, Desperate Remedies, be tells, west Very Eat. It was Tinsley who published that charming rustic idyll ender the Greenwood Tree, for which he gave Hardy just C 25 down. Imagine just C 25 ...