BY THOMAS HARDY
Hardy has an exquisite vein of humor. His style is so lucid that the outlines of a character in one of his books are unmistakable from first to last. He has a reserve force, so to speak, of imagination, of invention, which keeps the interest undiminished always, though the personages in the drama may be few and their adventures unremarkable. But most of all he has shown the pity and the beauty of human life, most of all he has enlarged the boundaries of sympathy and charity. His has been no barren labor, for he makes his reader think less of himself and more of mankind, he teaches the glory of renunciation, the dignity of pain, and the transfiguring power of unblemished love.—N.Y. Tribune.
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The Well-Beloved. $1 50.
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Wessex Tales. $1 50.
Desperate Remedies. $1 50.
A Laodicean. $1 50.
The Hand of Ethelberta. $1 50.
The Woodlanders. $1 50.
The Trumpet-Major. $1 50.
Far from the Madding Crowd. $1 50.
The Mayor of Casterbridge. $1 50.
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Two on a Tower. $1 50.
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