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Summer in Arcady, 155 347 261 Two Studies in Colonial History, 264 Two New Stories by Miss Pool, 540 Under the Pines, and Other Verses, 538 63 With Kelly to Chitral, 63 Weir of Hermiston, 153 William Carleton, 541 W. V., her Book and Various Verses, 549 453 Wood of the Brambles, The,. 449 363 The source of the smart jeu de mots, "The Amazing Hardy" and "Meredith the Obscure," has been curiously cited, as if it were a creditable discovery, by some of our contemporaries with a solemn knowingness, which is rather amusing when he who reads may find it in the February number of the Pall Mall Magazine, under Mr. Zangwill's causerie, "Without Prejudice." The accompanying sketch, however, from the same column, excels Mr. Zangwill's pungent and acrid wit. It is intended as an illustration of the following comment on Jude the Obscure as it appeared in Harper's Magazine." Now that I have read Jude the Obscure," says the literary wag, “I am all agog to read the Harper's version. It should be the greatest curiosity of literature' extant. How this book could be Bowdlerised and made acceptable to the American mind passes my comprehension. . . . To cut out the improper passages' and leave the story still coherent seems as difficult as to cut the pound of flesh from Antonio without spilling a drop of blood." When we remember all the bitterness of Mr. Hardy's pessimism, his keen, remorseless sense of the ironies of life, the passionate insurgence of his heart against Nature's injustice, and the revolt of his soul against this sad, mad world, which seem to have reached a climax in this last work of his, we think irresistibly of a certain passage in Stephen Crane's Lines, which might serve HAMPERS MONTHLY MAGAZINE THE AMAZINC MARRIAGE of Jude the Obscure: some purpose if pinned to the title-page "In the desert I saw a creature, naked, bestial, Who, squatting upon the ground, Held his heart in his hands, And ate of it. I said, 'Is it good, friend?' 'It is bitter-bitter,' he answered: 'But I like it Because it is bitter, And because it is my heart.'" Mrs. Oliphant's scathing review of Jude the Obscure in the Blackwood Magazine having been so widely copied and commented upon, it is singular that no notice has been taken of the mistake contained in the following paragraph: "There are children, as a matter of course; a weird little imp, the son of Arabella, and two babies of Susan's. In a moment of dreadful |