Hardy has an exquisite vein of humor. His style is so lucid that
the outlines of a character in one of his books are unmistakable
from first to last. He has a reserve force, so to speak, of
imagination, of invention, which keeps the interest undiminished
always, though the personages in the drama may be few and their
adventures unremarkable. But most of all he has shown the pity
and the beauty of human life, most of all he has enlarged the
boundaries of sympathy and charity. His has been no barren
labor, for he makes his reader think less of himself and more of
mankind, he teaches the glory of renunciation, the dignity of
pain, and the transfiguring power of unblemished love.--_N.Y.
Tribune._
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