. The Brontës in Ireland; or, Facts stranger than fiction. nterpolation in the review—VanityFair—Becky disposed of, and Thackeray lauded—Thereviewer grows moral—Specimen of the pagan andPharisaic patchwork—Difference in style and sentiment—Evidence of sentiment strongest—Reviewer guilty ofwhat he condemns—Andrew Langs views. LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS. PAGE Patrick Brontes Birthplace Frontispiece General View of Bronte Neighbourhood . . xxBailynaskcagh Manse, where the NovJs were first read . 11 The Courting Bower 93 Map of the Bronte District 107 The Bronte Home 121 Plan of the Bronte Homeland 123
. The Brontës in Ireland; or, Facts stranger than fiction. nterpolation in the review—VanityFair—Becky disposed of, and Thackeray lauded—Thereviewer grows moral—Specimen of the pagan andPharisaic patchwork—Difference in style and sentiment—Evidence of sentiment strongest—Reviewer guilty ofwhat he condemns—Andrew Langs views. LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS. PAGE Patrick Brontes Birthplace Frontispiece General View of Bronte Neighbourhood . . xxBailynaskcagh Manse, where the NovJs were first read . 11 The Courting Bower 93 Map of the Bronte District 107 The Bronte Home 121 Plan of the Bronte Homeland 123 The Last of the Brontes Aunts 157 Patrick Bronte 159 Charlotte Bronte 161 The Bronte Dancing Green 169 The Ducking Pond 195 The Haunted Glen 211 Glascar School, where Patrick Bronte first taught . 239Presbyterian Meeting House, where Patrick Bronte was Precentor 255 Patrick Brontes Matriculation Signature .... 263Patrick Brontes Signature on proceeding to his Degree . 266Patrick to Hugh regarding the price paid for the Novels . 269. CHAPTER I THE HIDDEN SOURCES THE history of the Brontes resembles in a smallway the history of the Nile. The great riverwas persistently explored, and minutely describedin its meanderings through the fertile delta, and asfar up, by pyramid and temple and tomb, as theexplorers could go. Traveller followed traveller,each noting the discoveries of his predecessor andadding a few of his own ; but until recent yearsthe head secret of the great African river remainedshrouded in impenetrable mystery. Many guesseswere hazarded as to the Egyptian phenomenon,but the muddy river continued to ebb and flow,bearing its yearly burden of fertility to Egyptno one knowing whence. Thanks to modern in-vestigation, we now know that the mysterious Nileis the natural outcome of vast lakes and othernatural sources above. Explorers have seen, andwe know. The current of Bronte life and thought has beenfaithfully traced and minutely portrayed in its 2 THE BR
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