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Show VI England's Sole Great Novelist, it Mr. Thomns Hardy was soventy on j! Thursday, and wo nro pleasod to know lj that he has not yet onded his work. m Mr. Hardy is tho only groat man of w. letters we have in England today. We m have men of good gifts and choice m gifts, and we havo plenty of talent and K bits of genius. But that is all. Bavo M blm, all tho great writers are load in K this country and, what Ms'" more, K thero Is no sure promise of anybody K to take the place' of the poets and novelists and historians who were still B living and working less than a goner-.. K, atlon ago. "Will great originality ,b,e m. born again?" ono may almost wonder ' with Ilenan. At any rate, its birth B' 1b being deferred and deferred. Lon-B Lon-B don Saturday Review. |