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 * It's curious that you should mention Mr Henry Arthur Jones, for if Henry Arthur had written novels I think they would have been very like Mr Hardy's, only better written. I remember speaking these words to William Archer, who asked me if I had ever seen Mr Hardy. I said that I hadn't, and he answered: Well, you'd be surprised at the likeness. I am not speaking of the mental likeness, but of the physical likeness, which is very striking: same height, same build, same type of face, same complexion. A few days afterwards in the Academy Mr Hardy was pointed out to me going round the pictures with