THE LATER YEARS OF THOMAS HARDY — Florence Emily Hardy — Macmillan ($5).
Most respectable memoirs are dull: this one is no exception. Abundant with annotation and anecdote, Mrs. Hardy's work is a boon to Hardy scholars, a bore to lay readers. Only relieving element in the volume is the biographer's charitable lack of sentimentality.
Thomas Hardy was essentially a poet. Fiction began with him as an avocation, partly because he was passionately fond of the tales told him of his native Dorset, and thought something should be done...
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