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same subject treated with more literary finish 

 and style than he had as yet acquired. He 

 proposes (May 20th) to Messrs. Longmans to 

 write a great book in two volumes on the 

 whole Land Question. The first volume he 

 proposes to call " Tenant and Labourer;" the 

 second, " Land and Landlord." He will deal, 

 he says, with the subject in an "impartial and 

 trenchant " manner, but still " with a slightly 

 conservative tone, so as to counsel moderation." 

 On June 8th he sends an instalment of two 

 hundred manuscript folios, proposing that the 

 first volume shall be called " The Agricultural 

 Life." The chapters are to be as follows : 



I. The Creed of the Agriculturist. 

 II. The Agriculturist at Home. 



III. Agriculture as a Business. 



IV. Summary of the Farmer's Case. 

 V. The Labourer's Daily Life. 



VI. The Labourer's Case. 

 VII. The Gist of the Whole Matter. 



This proposal never came to anything; but 

 the subject-matter was abundantly treated by 

 Jefferies later on. Most of the chapters will 



