... WIT AND WISDOM. Mr. Thomas Hardy, author of the deli.hUul series of Wessex novels, reached his 72nd birthday on June 2, and the Royal Society of Literature is ”larking the anniversary by presenting him a special gold medal. We may also improve the occasion ...

... better. A simple little story, but significant. Thomas Hardy had in him a French strain. Mr. Arthur Symons, the critic, states that, in conversation With Hardy, he ventured to say that the women Hardy created were all affected by a psychological strain ...

... fruits is just as much a characteristic of this county as that of the ruthless independence of her natives. Like Dorset. as Thomas Hardy found, Busses rich in stades of old families as in original characters. As I have already indicated. these 'rid families ...

... a time. Harvest home is a phrase which still lingers in the language, and to older folk it rings like a poem in memory. Thomas Hardy, George Eliot. and other writers of the rural England of long ago have enshrined the season in their pages; the cries of ...

... littoral. Aimed certainly, Thomas Hardy. the famous Nlisabethan philanthropist, who founded the school, was descended from one of these. and Sir Thomas Hardy. Nelson's admiral, and the great novelist himself. The Christian name, Thomas. bas ...

... but one very small person said. I know: they all kneel down ! Do we in these sceptical days of ours, say this with Thomas Hardy?: Su fair a fancy few would weave In these years! Yet, I feel, If someone said on Christmas Eve. 'Come. see the oxen kneel ...

... Club. At • meeting held at Taunton on Pray to protest agar 34 creel iblood) sport, the following message am reed from Yr. Thomas Hardy: The human race. being still practically barbarian, it Sass ant seem likel that delight in cruel sports can !maenad. except ...

... 10. The Society for the Preservation of Ancient Buildings hes sold some Thomas Hardy manuscripts for ALMS, and will nee the interest for the repair of Dorset buildtap as a Hardy memorial. 1111111111 ...

... GAZETTE SUSSEX; SURREY, NONSENSE NEWS. civilisation ii not flowing backward: it is flowing in the wrong direction.—Mrs. Thomas Hardy. The. strength of the national character is to be fortified in one direction onlythat of education—and the sooner we ise ...

... Dante to ussolini. by Profeseet E. S Lyttel; Shakespeare's Clone. by Sir -Mark Hunter; Thomas Hardy and Geordie Iferedith.' J. Stanley little and Thomas Hobbs of Walmeribury. by . Dr. R. Wilder Carr. Also poems by Profeaeor V. de Sola Pinto (the ...

... Colesdon. which accords with what the W.S.G. correspondent has most commonly heard in the last 50 years. A letter from Thomas Hardy to the Mayor of Winchester in 1915 is among MSS. on exhibition at the City Public Library this month. In this he wrote: ...

... 1921), while the other two are a little oil painting of Thomas Hardy and a pencil drawing Rudyard Kipling, who evidently approved of It, for he signed It as well as the artist. Strang's portrait of Hardy. painted In 1893, is especially valuable as showing ...