28 A Walk from 



to each, who give their views of the establishment in 

 the grave, sonorous words of their language. Here, 

 now, an American puts in his autograph, with his 

 sharp, curt notion of the matter, as " first-rate." Yery 

 likely a turbaned Mufti or Singh of the Oriental world 

 follows the New England farmer. Danish and Swedish 

 knights prolong the procession, mingling with Austra- 

 lian wool-growers, Members of the French Eoyal Aca- 

 demy, Canadian timber-merchants, Dutch Mynheers, 

 Brazilian coffee-planters, Belgian lace-makers, and the 

 representatives of all other countries and professions in 

 Christendom. An autograph-monger, with the mania 

 strong upon him, of unscrupulous curiosity, armed fur- 

 tively with a keen pair of scissors, would be a dangerous 

 person to admit to the presence of that big book without 

 a policeman at his elbow. 



Tiptree Hall has its own literature also, in two or 

 three volumes, written by Mr. Mechi himself, and de- 

 scribing fully his agricultural experience and experi- 

 ments, and giving facts and arguments which every 

 English and American farmer might study with profit. 



