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peculiar originality aud power, and deliver
ed with finished taste and ease, which is
felt, but cannot be described just before
the lectures began, somebody came behind
me, leaned over and said, Permit me, as n
1orkshireman, to introduce myself |
turned round-saw n strange not handsome,
face, which puzzled me for half n minute,
and then | said, You are Lord Carlisle.
| He nodded and smiled he talked few
minutes very pleasantly and courteously.'
The lady who accompanied Miss Brontc to
the lecture at Thackeray's alluded to, says
that, soon after they had taken their places,
she saw that he was pointing out her com
panion to several of his friends, but she
hoped that Miss Bronte herself would not
perceive it. After some time, however
during which many heads had been turned
round, and many glasses put up, in order
to look at the author of Jane Eyre Miss
Bronte said. | am afraid Mr.. Tha9keray
has been playing me trick : but she soon
became too much absorbed in the lecture to
J notice the attention which was paid to
her, except when it was directly offered &,
as in the case Of Lord Carlisle and Mr..
Monckton Mines. When the lecture was
ended, Mr. Thaokeray came down from the
! platform, and making his way toward her
asked her for her opinion. This she men
toned to me not many days afterwards, ad-
ding remarks almost identical with those
which | subsequently read in Nillctte,
where n similar action on the part of NJ.
Paul Emanuel is related As they were
preparing to leave the room. her companion
saw with dismay that many Of the audience
were forming themselves into two lines, on
each side of the aisle down which they had
to pass before reaching the door. Aware
that any delay would only make the ordeal
more trying, her friend took Miss Bronte 5
arm in hers, and they went along the avenue
of eager and admiring faces. During this
| passage through the cream of society,
| Miss Bronte's hand trembled to such de-
gree, that her companion feared lest she
should turn faint and be unable to pro-
coed, and she dared not express her sym
pathy or to try to give her strength by any
touch or word, lest it might bring on the
crisis she dreaded
After seeing Rachel she gives a pungent
criticism
'On Saturday went to hear and see
Rachel; a wonderful eight-terrible as if
the earth had cracked deep at your feet, and
revealed glimpse OF hell. shall never
forget it She made me shudder to the mar
row of my bones, in her some fend has
certainly taken up an incarnate home. She
Is not Il woman; she Is snake; she is the
-
In another letter she has more about
Rachel
'Rlcbe's acting transfxed me with won
der, enchaned me with interest, and thrill
ed me with horror. The tremendous force
with which she expressed the very worst
passions in their strongest essence forms an
exhibition as exciting as the bull-hghts Of
Spain, and the gladiatOrial cOmbats OF old
more moral than those poisoned stimuli lnts
to popular terocity. 1t is scarcely human
nature that she shows You it is something
wilder and worse the feeling and fury of a
fend. The great gift of genius she un-
douhtedly has; but | fear she rather abuses
it than turns it to good account
Upon the publication Of Esmond, she
| writes:
Il am not going to praise either Mr. Thac-
keray or his book have read, enjoyed,
/ been interested, aud after all, feel full as
much ire and sorrow as gratitude and admi-
ration. And still one can never lay down a
book of his without the last two feelings
having their part. be the subject or treat
ment what it may. In the first half Of the
book, what chiefly struck me was the won
derful manner in which the writer throws
himself into the spirit and letters of the
| times whereof he treats; the alluslOns, the
| illustrations, the style, all seemed to be 50
mastery in their exact keeping, their har-
mOnous consistency their nice natural truth
their pure exemption from cXaggeration
,ray. M coarso cann.raintnr can charm n.
with an allusion SO delicate and perfect
But what bitter satire what relentless disscc
section subject of diseased Well, this too i,
r,cht or would he right if the SAVAGE surroor
did not seem SO tiercelypleased with his work
Thackerav likes to dissect an ulcer or ar
aneurism he has pleasure in ruttinc In,
cruel knife or probe into auiyerinr. liyinc
flesh Thackerav would not like all the
world to no good. M great satirist ,youl,
like society 70 he nerfect
a. nsnoI no il uninst 70 ,yo,no, o.r;te
rn;nst TLnro l. hill, on,, nm; ,Li,n,,
ha docs NOT deservo Tor mokin,, i,dv CnstIn
wood naan thronob - knyhnIo Estnr',t
door and he ieainus or n how and a mill,
maid Many other things noticod tb,t
for NV mart grieved and oxasnorotod mo n,
I road hut then ogain cama noss,,os 81
trra so JeonIv tbonght so tenderIro rolt
ono oo,Id nd, boIn r,r,,i,inc, ond ,d,I;.;,,
.Somn na,,lo bave heon in tha bahi, .
torninr Kim tho second ,rritar a ,ba J,,. /;
inst dnnends on bimsolr who,bor or no
thoso cfi,;cs sbonII hn ins,;GnI in ,Ll;,
award ue nood NOT he tho second Gn'
m,do him second IN no man If wero bc
ronId sba,v ,nrsoIf ~ Ian, NO., os nri,ic
renort me. m anv rate. | would do NV hest
Nr Tbactara1; ;s oasv and ;ndoIan, on,
seldom cares N l., his Lc.t
AFR rho comnIsti'n If .yiuet+o in 1870
tbe tra,edy If rbarI,tto Rron,s,s iifa dr,r
ranidIv to ;, cIoso Ths fnaI scenn, hccn,n,
sfilI mora Gloomy as She annro,cIos tb. las
struggle with the ,mnIacabIe Fatc That ho,
ban6fed her. dovs Tn snite If bcr necnIi,r
almost unearthIv nature She hnd insure,
the curate of h,f fathers parish with a rro
found nassion The name Of tbIs rorso,
was Nichols; he was not man to be at
tracted by literary fame; grave, reserved
conscientious soul, with deep sense O
religion, and of his duties as its minister