124 THE EULOGY OF RICHARD JEFFERIES. 



and his poetical papers. For the Mark Lane 

 Express he wrote on "Village Organization"; 

 for the Standar d on "The Cost of Agricultural 

 Labour"; for the Fortnightly on the "Power 

 of the Farmer." Between these papers he 

 wrote on " Marlborough Forest," on " Village 

 Churches," and on the " Average of Beauty. " 

 The first of these three articles already 

 reached almost the highest level of his better 

 style. Even for those who have never wan- 

 dered in this great and wonderful forest, the 

 paper is wholly charming, while to those who 

 know the place, it is full of memories and 

 regrets that one has seen so little of all that 

 this man saw. 



" The great painter Autumn has just touched 

 with the tip of his brush a branch of the beech- 

 tree, here and there leaving an orange spot, 

 and the green acorns are tinged with a faint 

 yellow. The hedges, perfect mines of beauty, 

 look almost red from a distance, so innumer- 

 able are the peggles. Let not the modern 

 Goths destroy our hedges, so typical of an 

 English landscape, so full of all that can de- 

 light the eye and please the mind. Spare them 



