CONTENTS THE PAGEANT OF SUMMER THE FIELD PLAY: I.
THE PAGEANT OF SUMMER I
II
THE FIELD-PLAY I UPTILL-A-THORN
BITS OF OAK BARK I THE ACORN-GATHERER
III A ROMAN BROOK
MEADOW THOUGHTS
CLEMATIS LANE
NATURE NEAR BRIGHTON
SEA, SKY, AND DOWN
BY THE EXE
THE WATER-COLLEY
NOTES ON LANDSCAPE PAINTING I
VILLAGE MINERS
NATURE AND THE GAMEKEEPER
THE SACRIFICE TO TROUT
THE HOVERING OF THE KESTREL
COUNTRY LITERATURE I THE AWAKENING
II SCARCITY OF BOOKS
III THE VILLAGER'S TASTE IN READING
IV PLAN OF DISTRIBUTION
VENICE IN THE EAST END
THE PIGEONS AT THE BRITISH MUSEUM
Title: The Life of the Fields
Author: Richard Jefferies
Language: English
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.
RICHARD JEFFERIES