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THURSDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1925.

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some half-dozen poems to heightsper" to whom she was devoted, which hor sister Charlotte could over the wild nicors which lay There were three daughters of never touch. She died in 1848 of just beyond her father's pay. the old parson of Haworth. Of consumption at the age of thirty, sonage. But in half a dozen Anne, the quiet but attractive She did not attain, like her sister, poems she rose to a height which Anne, all that I have to observe Charlotte, to fame in her lifetime: places her for a certain quality is that she lived as their affec-or even any recognition. The among the greatest poets, hot tionate sister and fellow-worker tall, linky girl who held her- only of England, but of the world. in the atmosphere of Charlotte self aloof, and, yet was always Lord Haldane in "John of Lon- and Emily Neither in prose nor ready to help those who were den's Weekly," in poetry did she reach their level, suffering or in want, was hardly. But she was not the less a beauti-a popular figure. She was bust ful soul. Of Charlotte there is known for her solitary walks, ne- something different to be said.

companied by the bulldog, "Kee- grent poet she was certainly not. Her verses naves Teach a really high level. But in prose, usa povelist, she Nuaimed to br rank. She suffered, as indeed did Emily, from never having been trained closely in the technique of her art... They lived in #HUTTOW. 'Surroundings which only their geniusannbled them to sur- mount. They timed too high, tri be able to escape from the cramps | ing intuence of a narrow, world That was partly due to the gir euinstince that they were always trying to look into the deeper Robert Burns, without training or any very wide- experience, surmounted hik MM- ealty but only because he' dis i course of the wurl that he saw daily. To such a world the Brontes did not, mean to contine themselves, and epnsequently they were brought up against the limits to their actual vision. But Charlotte and Emily were women of genius. In prose, Charlotte was a great, if imperfect novelist! She worked hard and she sue- ceeded in developing her powers. Anyone who reads what was one Opposite Kayamally & Ca. · fof her earliest writings.". "The Professor." published late but written early, an see how she had got away from many limita- tions when she, later on, com- posed Jane Eyre" and "Shirley." Her predominant theme Was

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character." and particularly the character of the women she knew Jas Haworth. In her prose pit- aures of this she is very great, and something of her quality shows at times in her poetry. Emily was of a different order. She was great in the terrifie power with which she also des eribes concrete, living, individkank character in "Wuthering Heights". - tremendous, if somewhat in- artistically-shaped novel Her verses were many of them com- monplace. But then she rose in

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