i IS THE EULOGY OF RICHARD JEF-FERIES. 



culties. The political advantage which would 

 accrue would be considerable, as a large section 

 of the population would feel that one at least 

 of their not altogether frivolous complaints 

 -was removed. As a pecuniary speculation, it 

 is possible that such a society would pay as 

 well as a building society; for the preliminary 

 expenses would be so small in comparison. A 

 building society has to erect blocks of houses 

 before it can obtain any return ; but merely to 

 plough, and lay out a few fields in regular 

 plots, and number them on a plan, is a light 

 task. If the rent was not paid, the society 

 could always seize the crops; and if the plot 

 was not cultivated in a given time, they might 

 have a rule by which the title to it should be 

 vacated. To carry the idea further, a small 

 additional payment per annum might make 

 the plot the tenant's own property. This 

 would probably act as a very powerful induce- 

 ment." 



In the year 187-i he meditates a great work, 

 which he began but never finished, using up 

 his notes in after-years for what is really the 



