The Life of the Fields

by Richard Jefferies

THE LIFE OF THE FIELDS

BY RICHARD JEFFERIES

My thanks are due to those editors who have so kindly permitted me to
reprint the following pages:—"The Field-Play" appeared in Time;
"Bits of Oak Bark" and "The Pageant of Summer" in Longman's Magazine;
"Meadow Thoughts" and "Mind under Water" in The Graphic; "Clematis
Lane," "Nature near Brighton," "Sea, Sky, and Down," "January in the
Sussex Woods," and "By the Exe" in The Standard; "Notes on Landscape
Painting," in The Magazine of Art; "Village Miners," in The
Gentleman's Magazine; "Nature and the Gamekeeper," "The Sacrifice to
Trout," "The Hovering of the Kestrel," and "Birds Climbing the Air," in
The St. James's Gazette; "Sport and Science," in The National
Review; "The Water-Colley," in The Manchester Guardian; "Country
Literature," "Sunlight in a London Square," "Venice in the East End,"
"The Pigeons at the British Museum," and "The Plainest City in Europe,"
in The Pall Mall Gazette.

RICHARD JEFFERIES