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A NOTE

ON

CHARLOTTE BRONTË

The priceless contribution to our knowledge of one of the greatest among women, for which the thanks of all students who have at heart the honour of English literature are due to Mr. Wemyss Reid, had on its first appearance the singular good fortune to evoke from a weekly paper of much literary and philosophic pretension one of the most profound and memorable remarks ever