Eureka Reporter | 1906-03-09 | Page 5 | Pen Sketch of Thomas Hardy

PEN SKETCH OF THOMAS HARDY eminent author not adapted for the role of lion thomas hardy though a frequent visitor to london still makes his home in dorchester near which he was born and whery he has lived al most his entire life he is said to be quite indifferent to the social fame that successful novel writing brings he always looks a little too grave and distant to be quite at his ease in the midst of the jangle of smart con writes a correspondent who has seen the author recently but at a small literary dinner he becomes at once sympathetic and interesting and can be grave and gay in stature he is short trimly built the face Is intellectual the forehead deeply lined with thought the dome of the head expansive and thinly covered with hair the eyes are meditative cau alous now and then lighting up with kindly humor but generally very sad mr hardy always looks as though he were a watcher sitting apart from the battle of life and noting down the defeats of the day