Review of reviews and world's work . inestvein; and even he has done nothing more charming andwinning than the picture of the three dairy-maids—by nomeans immaculate or ideal conceptions of English girl-hood, but entirely sweet and lovable in their wholesomereality and credibility—whose calamity it was to giveaway their too combustible hearts where no return waspossible. Tess herself is one of those imperfect, faultily-beautiful figures which take into hopeless captivity thereaders affection. But Mr. Hardy has not seen fit tomake her lover in any way singularly attractive; and wedoubt if Angel
Review of reviews and world's work . inestvein; and even he has done nothing more charming andwinning than the picture of the three dairy-maids—by nomeans immaculate or ideal conceptions of English girl-hood, but entirely sweet and lovable in their wholesomereality and credibility—whose calamity it was to giveaway their too combustible hearts where no return waspossible. Tess herself is one of those imperfect, faultily-beautiful figures which take into hopeless captivity thereaders affection. But Mr. Hardy has not seen fit tomake her lover in any way singularly attractive; and wedoubt if Angel Clares power to draw upon himself thedevotion of all the women within his sphere of personalinfluence is quite intelligible on any less general ground than that of the incalculable impressicnableness of thefeminine heart. In his curious inconsistencies of actionand belief and in the fundamental consistency whichluiderlies these siiperficial contradictions, he is, however,a subtle and powerful study. This story, in virtue of its. MR. THOMAS HARDY. passionate and lofty aim, as well as of the pulse of dra-matic vitality which throbs through it from the first half-farcical to the last overpoweringly tragic scene, is quitethe most serious contribution to latter-day English some defects or excesses—among which an occa-sional tendency to over-scientific phraseology must bementioned—it is a great book, and none the less so byreason of the indefinable impression it gives of a creativepersonality in some ways greater than the thing created. RECENT AMERICAN AND ENGLISH PUBLICATIONS. and State in New England. By Paul E. Lauer,A. M. 8vo, pp. 106. Baltimore: The Johns HopkinsUniversity Studies in Historical and Political Sci-ence. 50 cents. The latest monograph in the Johns Hopkins series of Stud-ies in Historical and Political Science is by Mr. Paul E. Lauer,who holds a fellowship in history at the University, and whoreviews the facts concerning the Chur
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