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murderer's face, after the deed, is as pale as 

 death. A third tale is called " Who Will Win ? 

 or, American Adventure." There is fighting 

 in it, with negroes, hairbreadth escapes, and 

 such things, in breathless succession. A fourth 

 and last tale is called "Masked." These boyish 

 efforts are only mentioned here to show in 

 what direction the lad's thoughts were running. 

 Considered as a lad's productions, they require 

 no comment. At the outset, Jefferies proposed 

 fiction to himself as the most desirable form 

 of literature, and the most likely form with 

 which to court success. Almost to the end 

 he continued to keep this ambition before him- 

 self. The list of his serious attempts at fiction 

 is respectable as regards number. It includes 

 the following: 



" The Scarlet Shawl," one vol., 1874. 

 " Eestless Human Hearts," three vols., 1875. 

 " World's End," three vols., 1877. 

 " Green Fern Farm," three vols., 1880. 

 " The Dewy Morn," two vols., 1884. 

 if " Amaryllis at the Fair," one vol., 1887. 



To these may be added but they must be 



