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    NOTICES OF BOOKS. 343

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    ill the midst of which they wrote a word inay be said here . In the first place , Bran well was at Haworth . The secret had come the out honor , and of

    that unfortunate youngman , he who was to have been the family , was hiding his shame in the solitude of home . Eemorse , self-degradationdisappointed lovelike the Furieswere urging him

    deeper and deeper , into the sloughs , about whose borders , he had long lingered . The letters of this period hint at terrible scenes . There

    could not well be a more bitter curse than the constant presence of this wretched , besotted brother , now stupefied with opium , now

    drunk and mad . Besides this , Mr . Bronte ' s eyesight was rapidly failing , a sore trouble to the daughters ; and moreover their cherished

    school-project had just now fallen to the ground , without any prospect of being renewed so long as the vicarage contained a caged

    wild-beast within its walls . Past and present troubles pointed only to worse yet to come . If their writing was not very cheerful and

    healthy , if rather it tended towards the gloomy and morbid , this was to but inculcate right and cheerfulness natural . It to is lay well down for a the law critic that from life shall his be easy painted -chair

    in gay colors , even that , all shade shall be ignored as in Chinese pictures , and to rebuke the story-teller who tells a sad dark story .

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    The With Like gods Shakespeare such may a need laug and h heart and the Shake on gods two . speare pale That li ; ' s D very ante smiled .

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    , poems At The any thunder man ' fell door last , ' Here week , 'tis and prob killed able a , wife

    Get And up scared , be nierry a sickl , y shout husband , and suits , — clap wh the at your times of that hands ! ? _. ,

    None Because a cheerful so to the genius manand whindeed ' Should says any to the poem , ?" y

    The three sisters , pacing up and down the Haworth parlor , in then that earl consulting y _spring each -time other of 1846 , but worked for the out most the part three , we stories fancy , , now rely and ing

    on their own unassisted strength . Neither " The Professor" nor " Agnes Grey" can compare with ination

    Even " Wuthering the after Hei works ghts " Charlotte for power are , ori in g some inality points , and decidedl imag y in- .

    ferior to this tale . The mental strength which untrained could grasp and subtle , and passions hold , and must quietl in its y prime dissect have and achieved examine , such or , had awful the

    ability to achieve , miracles . Had Emily lived , and had Her genius over ripened that in of the Charlotte ordinary manner It is remarkable , her fame that must this have story predominated is written

    . . on precisely an opposite principle to that which guided her two

    _sistei _' s _. In " The Professor , " Charlotte clings , as in all her _subse-

    Notices Of Books. 343

    NOTICES OF BOOKS . 343

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Jan. 1, 1860, page 343, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01011860/page/55/