, 1861-07-02

The Rs1. Patrick Bronte, clergyman Of
the English Ephcpph Church, died at the
parsonage 81 HaWorth, aged "a.
t d sndden thriH through The heart Of almost
every cultivated man and Wonlan In Ch1isten-
dem. s,:-* :: -, .,t
The village where this old man died, the
Iast ~ oi . bis family, Was eingxla1ay lonely
greater antiquity than any other IN that part
Of the kingdom.' Inside, the character OF the
pillars shows TINT they were constructed be-
tore the reign Of Henry VII. From the Arch
bishops registry at York, it is asccrtaiaed
that there was chapel at Haworth In 1877"
BY graves, and its loneliness is something
Ic1tentoEs.. ;"No cpe ccmls 70 Tie house;
nothing disturbs the deep rnpose; hardly
I"Toice is heard; you catch the tick Of the
! tie p5,ler, all over The house." The road
I: rsce TOR several miles between waye-EEe hills,
|; where the prevailing color everywhere is grey;
| the traveller arrives at q village built Of gr.y
ttonc; at the top Of the street are the church
and parsonage. on. the hillside, and then
stretching far, far away, wide md lonely, on
/ every side, are the apparently endless moors.
| The neighboIhDod seems to have been sfngu
lally destitute Of that society which is found
almost everywhere in England. The York.
naria1s, and a strange sadness, such as Is de-
! ecribed in Wuthering Heights and in Shirley,
is etlU to be found amongst them
| SO solitary life, beyond their OWE hmily
ch{]dreni eeems seldom to have been lived Al
that Of the B1onfes. Their mother died when
| Study, not even taking his meals with his fam
! LIZ slDgu1arly tacitlrn and eccentric man.
| He did not speak WHEN be was annoy ed Or dis.
| pleased, but worked of bis wrath by firing
| extraordinary and unfathomable family. Hrs.
Gatkl1l adds, " do not pretend to harmonize
| points Of character, and bring them into one
consistent and intelllglble whole, The family
| with which have to do shot their roots down
deeper than I can penetrate. ! cannot meas
have named those Instances of eceentricity
| in the father, becauecI hold the knowledge Of
them to be necessary for . right understand
| ing Of the life Of his daughter '''|
SO sad 8 record Of family :W2S scarcely ever
| known. There we're Six children Maria and
| Elizabeth died in 1926, in their twelfth aud
eleventh years. Maria Is the " Helen Burns"
of Jane Eyre, Charlotte vowed a vow that
the would immortalize the bad teacher that
was severe to Maria, and the good one that
he id it. - for a1 tie one one IS 1fsa Sc.
and the other - Miss Temple" Mrs Brbute
died in 1881 In less than year OF each: 9th
e, in 1913, died BranweI, the only son, and
and Anne, the author Of" Agnes Grey.' The
eldest Of the three was but go Charlotte
lived On until 1855, when she died In her thir-
ty.ninth year. She Was married for only nine
months. The father is now dead. Charlotte's
| child.
The con turned out badly, and made them
all miserable. Emily Was d wonderful crea-
| ture. She WEB Chaslottes idol, quiet, taci.
turn, peculiar as possible, without being &C.
centric She plned whenever she left home,
| hecomirgin d few months positively III, The
frAp6Nfn Nf tho ~
She had just such q dog as Tartar, whose fe-
| rccity she subdued, and who followed her cof
fin to the grave, and moaned like human
creature when she died; aud she actually eau
tezlzed Ter arm With q hot iron, as described
in Shirley, when bit By: another dog. Shirley
was written during her Illness, aud one.third
GIFT after her death, the interval being marked
by that moet melancholy Of al chapters,
63led The Valley Of the Shadow Of Death.''
Wutheripg Heights fs book Of unqnestioaa-
no one ever began 1t without finishing it, or
ever read 1t twice. It haunts one like night
t mare. Charlotte Bronte loved Emily more
than all the world beside, and she said that the
whole world should appreciate her The mag
rffeeRt genius that absolyed the VOW has
tainted her In the worlds favorite- Shirley,
The skill with which the finishing touches afe
| given, to what would else have been too stern
10 be attractive, can only be ikened to that Of
Scott snd Shakespeare
HAtu Annt sicheueQ, CnArloIte and the
lady whom ahe has m1de."a joy forever" as
Caroline Helstone, took her to the seashore.
In four days she was dead "The evening be-
fore che died, )" says Caroline Helstone. tselosed
in With the most glorious sunset ever Witness
ed. The castle on the cliff stood il proud
glory, giided BY the rays Of the declining sun.
The distant ships glittered like burning gold; !;
the little boats near the beach heaved On the
ebhipg tide. Anne W'as drawn In her easy
chair to the window. Her face became i1!u-
mined almost as much as the glorious scene
che gazed upon. Little was said, for it was
plain that her thoughts were penetrating for
ward to the regions Of unfading glory" She
Was sincere, humble Christian, and in any
other family Would have been most marked
Besides Agnes Grey" she wrote "The Ten
snt OF Wildfell Hal, ,"and the poems Of "Acton
Bell" Charlotte married her fathers curate.
rage, and only reluctantly consented. But
the marriage was happy one, and is curious
y characteristic, for Miss Bronte was then one
Of the celebrities Of England.
The grand lesson taught by Miss Bronte's
books, Is, that we are to do right always, under
all circumstances, without hesitation or COM
| premise, not because We are to be rewarded
OF praised for it, but because God commands
1t. Vice il never made seductive, the tempta.
tio1-as IN Jane Eyre-ls stated only IN con
nection with the sorrow, the loneliness, the
destitution and the heroic courage which over
come 1t. Some Of the characteristics Of her
genius are, graphic power in delineating char
acter, humor, courage, originality, and vivid
nesa Unlike Scott, who placed his resders in
an atmosphere Of romance, Intoxicating the
Imagination, and creating heaven upon earth,
Charlotte Bronte presents human life itself,
only intensified, the essence OF real, hum n
joy and sorroWs, trial and victory, recreation
and torture, humo1 and sadness, the profane
and the sacred, life and death. She is not
fau1tless. There is too much aversion to
wholesome conventiona1isms, to near an ap-
lroach to the verge Of impropriety, too little
recognition Of the sincerity nnd value of pas
sionate reliyionisn. But she vas one Of the
very greatest among women, and two, at least,
Of her books will live as long ns' the English
Language. Philadelphia BuAc{in.