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    NOTICES OE BOOKS , 341

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    , peculiar life of that effect north upon country them . is greatl But , beyond y dissimilar this , to the the common smooth every polished day

    life differen of the t . south Remnants . The of scenery barbarism and still the exist people there and which the customs we should are

    assign to the middle ages , and antique traditions and legends which blun we have t and forgotten harsh of are speech there but and tales rude of of yes manners terday . The speaking people cur are t

    truths , guiltless of polite parap , hrases , and never caring ; to hide their real feelings ; strong in character ; not easily moved by emotion or

    passion , but when moved enduring in their loves and hates ; proud tion and free of the , self humorous -sufficing bu and t a most self-concei dull ted perception ; having of the a keen more appreci delicate a-

    , in human terests s . ymp Indi athies genous ; money customs -getting and withal habits and yet shrewd nourish to there their , own and but

    little stories modified in which by these civilisation . Thus actors we hear of of " arvills strange " or scenes funeralfeasts which terminate peop in drunken ies ; of sacrilegious

    demondeeds strations of in crime places Thus of worshi we hear p , whether of org a church , or chapel who , of shoots dark yeoman

    at those who approach . his house , or savage a fanatic clergyman who barbarous is horse wild whi desola ps squire his te who parishioners moorland turns his undula from death tlie - ting bed beershop into treeless a cock to hills -p the it . no church The w warml scenery , or y

    tinted with flowering heather , , now purple-black , now , blighted hy li shrouded ghtning in in mis to ts a livid throug -brown h the , white " bottoms with " be late tween -lying these snows endless , or

    hills and Banshee c flow hangeful -voices brawling , and the ; the " solitary becks winds "; run it is riot are a rainy there haunted reg . These ion by , the winds the skies " speak G are ytrash with wild "

    and other phan , toms , and the ways lonely houses have each their own spectre or doom . Such surroundings would have southern their critics influence But on

    a the ain Brontes besides , an these influence effects unkno of circums wn to tances their the Bronte famil . y had it g , peculiar characteristicsinherited b , blood . Explain it how

    corporeal we may wn , race features stamps . The its niark Bed- , gauntlet as much horse upon y -shoe the aii mental d the as arched the

    ins obser tep ve of a s t t Yo th rke of s will hav e self their -concen psycholo tration gical and du an plica acut tes e ner . v We ous

    reng , , ma sensi tter tiv e f ness inh common eritance a t s t heir ll the weakness family ; and heal t hese and are consum as much ptive a

    tendencies . Altogether , when we consider the peculiar temperament time and circumstances dissimilar to those common of ordinary to the three lives sisters we cannot , and a wonder t the same that

    , their cannot writings wonder were that great taken misconceptions to be the writings were formed of one person albout ; these we

    writings , and harsh and false judgments passed .

    Notices Oe Books , 341

    NOTICES OE BOOKS , 341

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Jan. 1, 1860, page 341, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01011860/page/53/