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form a class of their own — a class which is continually enlarging, and which, indeed, 
is capable of doing so indefinitely, so long as writers are content to write down 
what they themselves have observed. It is only once in a generation that we can 
CHAMOIS. 
hope to find a Richard Jefferies; but the qualities which made him what he was 
are in a measure given to all of us. It is nearly a century since Dr. Aikin and 
hirs. Barbauld published Evenings at Home ; but it is only the other day that we 
