162 THE EULOGY OF RICHARD JEFFERIES. 



finished pictures, will be wholly rural. He 

 has written " The Dewy Morn," and apparently 

 the work has been refused; there was little in 

 his previous attempts to tempt a publisher 

 any farther. He will now write " Greene 

 Feme Farm," " Bevis," " After London," and 

 " Amaryllis at the Fair." They are not novels 

 at all, though he chooses to call them novels ; 

 they are a series of pictures, some of beauty 

 and finish incomparable, strung together by 

 some sort of thread of human interest which 

 nobody cares to follow. 



