put forth even in the columns of the contemporary Spectator. On the 11th of November, 1876, there appeared in that quarter a written assurance that its literary critic did actually 'agree with this biographer' in thinking that the works of Charlotte Brontë 'will one day again be regarded as evidences of exceptional intellectual power.' The present writer for once feels himself emboldened to express in his turn his own agreement with this critic in the opinion that they not impossibly may; he will even venture to avow his humble conviction that they may with no great show of unreason be expected to outlive the works of some few at least among the female immortals of whom the happy present hour is so more than seasonably prolific; to be read with delight and
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CHARLOTTE BRONTË.
