... present month.fa Mr Thomas Hardy and the lion. Mrs Hen- niker, Lord Houghton's sister, are to collaborate, on a novel. Mrs Henniker dedicates the volume ai of Outlines, which Messrs Hutchinson are about to publish, to my friend Thomas Hardy. Outlines ...

... on Saturday, in adds- tion to one each evening during' thE week.' THE CLOCK WAnWiokeo.-Ab. Bishop Alkl ; land on Monday, Thomas Hardy,. Helmin- row, inakeepep, wis charged with keeping opez at 10.15 p.m. on the 6th ?? Hary said nQ5, as she told P.O. Campbell ...

... of acromphshing his purpose when two men, who were sinlkug a well a quarter of a mile off, named nhilip) elareheugh and Thomas Hardy, who had heard her screams, arrived. Clareheugh, a power- f-.l man, seized the scoundrel and dragged him away to Chilton ...

... obtained a good success in Hamburg. M. Charles Lecocq has scored another success with his new opera, La Jolie Persane. Mr Thomas Hardy is writing a new serial story, The Trumpet-Major, for Good Words. Professor W. Robertson Smith, of Aberdeen, has left ...

... London, has been murdered near the village of Toban, iii Palestine. A story, entitledc The Return of the Native, by h3r Thomas Hardy, autbor of Far from the Mazdding Crowd, will be begun in the January number of Bel gravia. Mliss Betham-Edwards is ...

... illustrated by Mr Napier Hemy, the subjects being those coast scenes with which artists have already made us familiar. Thomas Hardy contributes a little tale, Interlopers at the Snap ; and The Armourer's TPrenrtices, by Charlotte MK. Yonge, is continued ...

... complete sturies. Max Vi ';Pemberton contributes the first instalment of 5' Some Jewel Mysteries I Have 'Known. ht :Thomas 'Hardy writes on ' Ancient Earthworks iti 'at Casterbridge, anld Mrs Stannard contributes 'if 'ashort story, entitled Margot ...

... Francais. Besides a conpla of chapters from Janies Payn's charming novel, the author of Far from the Maddink crowd (Thomas Hardy) supplies an interesting little novelette. The verse ic contributed by dmund Gosse and Jean Ingelow. Dr. B. W. Richardeon ...

... sharpened the weapons of conflict, but it has ias yet put only a very thin veneer over the fsavage. s, A PRn or BLUE ErYs, by Thomas Hardy; andl rTHE ISE W Woaiar orF IxvsFaN-ss, by Wililiam rBlackh(Samnson, Low. Ma£nrston, & Co., London) have just been added ...

... )Belgraeia for January, 1878, will contain the irst chapters of a new novel, entitled The Re- turn of the Native, by Thomas Hardy; and a complete story by Wilkie Collins, entitled T The Duel in Berne Wood. We regret to hear that the Bulgarian, Matthew- ...

... Arearica; a while William Dean Howells is particularly entertaining r in his literary autobiography this month in telling of Y Thomas Hardy and Tolstoy, and of the greatest literary r passion of his life. Dr Parkhurct fulfils the promise of ehis first article ...

... the subject of eight cbarmingillustrations, for which we are indebted to that prince of American artists, Edwin A. Abbey. Thomas Hardy writes about Wessex Folk, some of whose surround- ings and characteristics are pencilled by Charles Green end Alfred Parsona ...