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BOOKS AND MEN.

Two things should Forve to- morrow to brighten the nobls visage of the Futhor of Living Engliali Lettore, Mr. Thomas Hardy. One is the commenço ment of the publication of a hand- some uniform library edition of his works (Macmillan) in twenty volumes. The other is the pro- Roatation of a special gold · medal in his honour by the Council of the Royal Society of Literature.

The last recipient of this hemour: was the late George Meredithi, who, it will be rememberal, was the first to perceive the promise of greatness in Mr. Hardy's work, in the far-distant clays when the nathor of "Diana was ronder for Mossra. Clipit and Hall, and the future nuthor of "Tess" submitted his first book to the firm..

Mr. Hardy's modal is to be presenter to him ou his seventy- second birthly to-morrow. Anl there is not a lover of

puro fiction!

worse than other views, without proving it erroneous, implies the possibility of a faleo vlow- being botter or more expedient than a true view; and no pragmatic proppings can mako that idolum, speens at ind on its feet, for it postulates a pressicace denied to humunity.

GENERAL NEWS.

Sir R. Hart's Successor at Belfast.

Sir John Jordan, British Ministorio China, has been elected a member of the Senato of Belfant University in place of the late Sir Raberi lärt,

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New Eitor of the Review of

'Reviews,"

Mr. Alfred Steh 1, the son of tho into Mr. W. T: Stand, has bom appointed editor of the "Review of Roviews." Mr. Alfred Stend is the thor of several books ou Jupin New Arrangements for

Borneo Conlles

Tho" and G. Expros-" states

or any other form of imaginative that "the new arrangements for literature, in this or any other the recruiting of Chinese labour country, who will not perceive for North Borne by the B N. I the appropriateness" uf this Ca. have been completo), and tribute.

the doulitions have been sanes The new olition of Mr. Hardy toned by the Colorin! Offico. i4a madol of excellence in modern

book production, voul of all Shipping Girls in a Box. protence or sumptiousness, lan A Jurmese has boon arrostal rich in every quidity of

at Koke ont charge of attempting paper, binding, typ al llustration to illegally ship. four girls to But it is in the critical and ox-Manila. He intendst picking planatory margination that this victims, in a large trunk, Wessex Elition is so rich and swhich he hid a strusted for the much to be covoterl.

purpose and which is now in the hands of the police.

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Paking to. Paris Raca..

Mr. Hardy's Apologią, In a new general preface so the sorina, Mr. Hardy is so The axl route to be followed much to say that his osty many!

the Peking Paris noroplyne fairly b is to constitute ice, which is being organised by the "Matin," is been iblished. great author's apologia muud a dignified reply to those few cri-After leaving Peking the stopping ties who have failed at some places includo Kiškis, Trkutsk. tio or another to perceive the Tomsk, Quisk, Nijui Norg roi. completenes and thoroughness, Moscow, Warsaw, Vienas, Trieste, of the novelist's point of view, and Genos, Nice. Avignon, and Dijou the conception he has always To Help the Famine-stricken.

The resint members of the held of the great missions of English fiction.

Chinese Red Cross Society at This is the way in which Mr Nanking havo organized an ex- Hardy pays the inevitable tributa pedition to resend the phil from to his min festy

from the famine districtof Kiang.

·Sometimes the sin was lower pel Funls have been obtained than another times; sometimes, from the Kiangsu Trossury De- where the intention was prim-partments and the director of the

Southern Section of the Tientsin rily high, fo ee of cpcumstan- ces (among which the chef Pakow Railway lías consente 1 to

give free pass to the workers.

were the necessities of maga zinė publication) compolled » Penniless' Ex-Rubber Director. modification, great or slight, of

A strange story was told re- the original plan... Nutcently to the Marylebo magis- many of them, if any, stand as

trato by Francis Edward West, they would stand if written now,

agad 26, described as an ¡erot lo he supposed.

tomologist, who was charged with fraudulently converting two eleeks and a pair of ouaments, value £11 104,

The Limits of Wessex- of Wesser-the

Mr.

Hrly give to the region of

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Tho prisimer holi? ̧ n' Civil Parsel and its surroundings-Mr. | Service appointment in Jandy writes as follows:

the The geographical limits of extorminato rals.

colonies, and came to England to the stage kere trädden wore promoter of a "particularly bad A company nit absolutely forced upon the typo ” persuaded him to take a writer by circumstances; he directorship in a

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