The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1909-08-24

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DR.. II. B. Kingsbury.
Jane Eyre. Lucy Snow bids a long
farewell to the. blue hills of her own
native England, and entering the Sc
Guided and quiet precincts of a fash
ionable European school, triumphs
over every difficulty. finds friends in
successfully surmounts the
distractions Of a despotic mistress
and a scheming priest, and at last OBJ
tains that deep Joy which alone is felt
In the union of two severely tried,
long-loving hearts. Paul, whom she
marries, is really a striking creation
in modern fiction. h elements that
enter into his are indeed
homogeneous. Whilst naturally a little
man of unreasonable moods, of real
irritability, with a shameless disregard
of magnanimity, Quarrelsome, tyranni-
cal, ~presunning, he yet, pardOxical as
it may seem, is blessed with a heart
of a warmth which humbles him to
little children and binds Inn to girls
and women with a gentleness beyond
a mans g~entleneSS, with a soul full Of
purity and honor. and with a capacity
for loving with the intensity and devo-
ton of a AS one tudie and
reads his character, it is hard to re-
strain admiration and some owe for
the little man. / do not stop to make
a study of DR.. john, a.truly admira-
BILE character, and some other charac-
ters. The intelligent, receptive read
er will find in Villette a fine character,
earnest, gifted natura1nesS, some ex-
cellent strokes Of social philosophy.
Miss Bronte is not without full con-
ceptiOn of the profound philosophy OF
life to be gathered from the most faith
tuF representative of its action and
passion. She did well in what she
produced, and her writings deserve to
live for the dedication and satisfac-
ton of educated men and women who
love good literature. Her novels pos
sess originality-both of matter
and form. h makes us SYM
pathetic with whatever is good and
noble and true in all classes and con-
heartily everything that is low and
mean. Every student, whether of
books or life, may learn from her.
Her pages contain manly ~eloquence
and true d~iScernment and profound
philosophy, n are calculated to en-
large the capacity Of both mind and
heart.
Charlotte Bronte was the daughter
of an Irish curate, settled in York
shire, England. She taught school for
a short while at Brussels. Her first
novel she called The Professor was
rejected by the london publishers.
Jane Eyre" was a great success and
was published in 1S47. "A work Of
startling interest and power, which at
once made the author famous says
Prof. William Francis Collier, Ii. D.,
of Trinity College, Dublin, in 1871.
She married her fathers curate. Rev.
Mr.. NichOl, in June 1854, and died IN
the following March in her 39th year.
There were two other sisters Of tai
ents. One of them had fine powers
and wrote a move that in 1908 is still
read with Sdmiration and interest.
its title is "Wuthering Heights, and
1t is decidedly a very rlglna story.
There are readers that put it even
There was a short communication
in the number of the Nashville Chris
ton Advocate for 9Th inst. that was
Of peculiar interest to me. 1t told
Of the conversion and salvation Of a
mar often saw when / was a lad.
( recall that ia 1915. when 1 was at
school at Lovejoy's Military Academy
at Raleigh, n. c., sometimes met on
my way to school a DR.. w. T. Gray.
He was older, as it seemed to my boy
ish ewes. than the Q given by
Rey. r. J. Craig indicated. He ap-
reared to me to be about thirty or
more. Mr.. Craig says he was, in
August, 1908, eighty-four years of age.
| am sure / saw him many times, and
he then resided at Raleigh, n. (. He
was engaged then in the manufacture
Of .Gray's Ointm emit then very pop
ular in North Carolina. and Of excel
lent repute. Mr.. Craig writes Of il
as follows: