208 THE EULOGY OF RICHARD JEFFERIES. 



and to realize, if only a little, the meaning 

 and the depth of these thoughts. The cry 

 of his heart all through the book is for fuller 

 insight for a deeper understanding. 



He goes on to speak of his illness. It is 

 not, he says, at all serious; but it will make 

 him go to London to see a physician, and it is 

 likely to prevent him from getting about. 

 There is a paper (not one of these letters) 

 among his literary remains, in which he 

 describes the symptoms at length. 



In April he writes a long letter about many 

 things, but especially his " After London." 



" I have just put the finishing touch to my 

 new book. It is in three volumes." As pub- 

 lished by Cassell and Co. it was in one volume, 

 and it leaves off with the story only half told. 

 Perhaps the author cut it down, perhaps the 

 publishers refused to bring it out unless as a 

 short one- volume work. "It is called," he 

 says, " ' After London/ with a second title, 

 ' Chronicles of the House of Aquila.' The 

 first part describes the relapse of England 

 into barbarism; how the roads are covered 



