Produced by Malcolm Farmer
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.