160 THE EULOGY OF RICHARD JEFFERIES. 



In the same year this is really a most 

 wonderful record of absolutely wasted energy 

 he has an allegory written in Bunyanesque 

 English called " The New Pilgrim's Progress; 

 or, A Christian's Painful Passage from the 

 Town of Middle Class to the Golden City." 

 This, too, sinks into oblivion, and is heard of 

 no more. 



Undeterred by all this ill-success, Jefferies 

 proceeds to write yet another novel, called 

 " World's End." He says that he has spent 

 a whole winter upon it. 



" The story centres round the great pro- 

 perty at Birmingham, considered to be worth 

 four millions, which is without an owner. A 

 year or two ago there was a family council 

 at that city of a hundred claimants from 

 America, Australia, and other places, but it is 

 still in Chancery. This is the core, or kernel, 

 round which the plot develops itself. I think, 

 upon perusal, you would find it a striking 

 book, and full of original ideas." 

 , In consideration of the failure of " Restless 

 Human Hearts," he offers his publisher the 

 whole of the first edition for nothing, which 



