1 84 THE EULOGY OF RICHARD JEFFERIES. 



with a shark, a thing which has happened 

 unto many. The very fact of having all his 

 works in the same hands greatly assists their 

 sale. A reader who is delighted, for instance, 

 with " Red Deer," and would wish to get 

 other books by the same author, finds the 

 name of Longmans on the back, but no list of 

 those books published by Smith and Elder, 

 Chatto and Windus, Cassell and Co., and 

 Sampson Low and Co. I have myself found 

 it very difficult to get a complete set of 

 Jefferies' books. At the London Library, 

 even, they do not possess a complete set. 

 Then that reader lays down his book, and 

 presently forgets his purpose. I suppose that 

 there are very few, even of Jefferies' greatest 

 admirers, who actually possess all his works. 



He was, as I have already said, bitter against 

 publishers for the small sums they offered him. 

 He made the not uncommon mistake of sup- 

 posing that, because the reviews spoke of his 

 works in terms so laudatory, which, indeed, 

 no reviewers could refrain from doing, the 

 public were eagerly buying them. I have, 

 myself, had perhaps an exceptional experience 



