THOMAS HARDY.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 670, 22 November 1909, Page 9

THOMAS HARDY.

" —; —* fltot tiXl %Z\ m' ffc«to* the announce»dW*5 y the * nDo 'uicemcnt, although ff'K ' I tho "f? ° f h" brother novelist, •Hγ mi. * . h hls iwels met that led iv T? 3 a Brama of tho Na P°ti6w to ultimate representation that e\<m a fk» «]«,«,' - ...M Cnnotl ? Tho > J" 1897, wrote the,,version of "Tes s of tho, D'Urbervillos" wliich was produced at St. James's< Th X. ?<Th«Sw <u y m » e " * ho - e «st ns a play The Obree Stransteis" in 18!)3, and Hardy, in from,the Madding Crowd?' Jn 1683. into thn ' W f , a f 9tofa A P& m tuvoo act? That indicated by the letter which Mr. Galsworthy iced to the comim-won ailtinfr on the censorehifl. 'In that otter he'tfcclarod, that boforo wrltinsr his ballad, "A , Sunday Morning's Trdrtdy," he had thought of mnkin? the subj«t into a play, and harl got -the length of blocklnK out the action into scenes ami acts, whenvlt occurrtd to him that his treatment was too unconTOiihcnal to plea«i tho public, whermjpon ho abandoned his design. Pctliapt, thettloro, although his impending Tolnmo in i tn be a collection of poem-., his neit long work trill be an- acting tragedy. t