CHIPS FROM A WORKSHOP
THOMAS HARDY’S NOTEBOOKS, by Evelyn Hardy; the Hogarth Press, English price 10/6. ‘HIS is more or less a verbatim printing of three notebooks kept by Hardy. Any reader expecting the kind of illumination cast by the Notebooks of Henry James or the Journal of Katherine Mansfield is due for disappointment. The value of the entries in the Hardy notebooks varies; and one can suggest little excuse for printing much that is in this volume. The brief diary entries (one complete entry is "August; To Bath and back by car"), and the extracts Hardy copied from periodicals are of trifling to zero significance. About half of the volume-the notes on possible plots and the comments on his own works and on the critical reception they received-opens up all too brief glimpses of the writer in the workshop.
The material even when important is, however, very scrappy. There was enough in the notebooks to make a first-rate article in a critical journal. Padded out into a book it raises hopes
that are unfulfilled.
I.A.
G.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 35, Issue 892, 7 September 1956, Page 15
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177CHIPS FROM A WORKSHOP New Zealand Listener, Volume 35, Issue 892, 7 September 1956, Page 15
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