“Charlotte Bronte and Her Circle.”

A word or two on this work may not be out of place in these pages, inasmuch as it is without doubt the most important contribution to the Brontë story issued since the publication of Mrs. Gaskell’s biography of Charlotte Brontë. Many factors have contributed to this result. In the first place, those writers who followed Mrs. Gaskell were unable to command the assistance of the person of all others who could most effectively render it in a work on this subject; namely the husband of Charlotte Brontë.