224 THE EULOGY OF RICHARD JEFFERIES. 



and Jefferies tall, there is something similar in 

 their faces : the lofty forehead ; the full, 

 serious eye ; the large nose these are features 

 common to both. And to both was common 

 but Jefferies had, perhaps, the greater forbear- 

 ance a certain impatience with the common 

 herd of mankind who know not, and care not 

 for, Nature. 



There is another passage on Thoreau by 

 a younger writer, * which might just as well 

 have been written, word for word, of 

 Jefferies : 



" The quality which we should call mystery 

 in a painting, and which belongs so particu- 

 larly to the aspect of the external world and 

 to its influence upon our feelings, was one 

 which he was never weary of attempting to 

 reproduce in his books. The seeming signifi- 

 cance of nature's appearances, their unchanging 

 strangeness to the senses, and the thrilling 

 response which they waken in the mind of 

 man, continued to surprise and stimulate his 



* Robert Louis Stevenson, " Men and Books : Thoreau." 

 Chatto and Windus, London. 



