FAMOUS TOMS.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXIX, Issue LXIX, 29 September 1915, Page 6

FAMOUS TOMS.

Mr Clement Shorter in The Sphere calls attention to an article in the Chi« cago Dial on famous Thomases. The following list is suggestive:—Thomas OcclevtH-'The Regement of Princes." it? 1 *! Thomas Mafcoy — "Morte d Arthur." Thomas Nash "Plays." Thomas More—'Ttopia." Thomas Campion—Songs. Sif, Thomas Browne—"Religio Medici." i Thomas Hobbes— "Leviathan." Thomas Parneil---"Contentment." Thomas Percy—"Reliques." Thomas Gray— "Elegy." Thomas Chatterton— "Rowley Ballads, ' and a fleeting glimpse of the most stiatling genius ever known. Tom Moore—Songs. Tom Hood —Poems, and courage. Thomas de Quincey— "Suspiria de Profundis." Thomas Babicgton Macaulay—Essays, and that cursed boon, the balanced sentence. Thomas Carlyle— "Sartor Resartus," the greatest spiritual dynamic of his century. Thomas Henry Huxley—Essays, and honesty. Thomas Arnold—Rugby. Thomas Hardy—The finest novels in English. There is no doubt that the Apostle Thomas should be included, also St. Thomas a Becket (after whom St. Thomas's Hospital was named), Thomas Aquinas, Thomas a Kempis. Why not Thomas Sayers, the boxer?