3 o2 THE EULOGY OF RICHARD JEFFERIES. 



scenes some delightful, all beautiful, and all 

 original in the sense that nobody except 

 Jefferies could possibly have written any of 

 them. The child wanders. That is all. 

 Some day, when the worth of this writer is 

 universally recognised, these scenes and stories 

 will be detached from the papers with which 

 they are published, and issued in separate form, 

 as beautifully illustrated as the art of the next 

 generation this will not take place for another 

 generation will allow. 



For instance, Guido they called him 

 Guido because they thought that in childhood 

 Guido the painter must have greatly resembled 

 this boy runs along the grassy lane at the 

 top of a bank between the fir-trees till he 

 comes to a wheat-field. Then he climbs 

 down into this field, and sees the most 

 wonderful things : lovely azure corn-flowers 

 " curious flowers with knobs surrounded 

 with little blue flowers, like a lady's bonnet. 

 They were a beautiful blue, not like any other 

 blue, not like the violets in the garden, or the 

 sky over the trees, or the geranium in the 

 grass, or the bird's-eyes by the path." Then 



