[2] The Reverend David McKee of Ballynaskeagh, a very successful school teacher, who prepared hundreds of boys for college. Among them was Captain Mayne Reid, who afterwards dedicated his book, "The White Chief," to Mr. McKee. Ballynaskeagh, was the centre of mental activity for the country round about. Its master was the friend and neighbor of the Irish Brontes. He himself wrote several books, one of which led to the beginning of a temperance movement in Ireland. The writer of this article was his pupil at the time of the publication of "Jane Eyre," and tells whereof he knows personally, as well as some things of which he was informed by Mr. McKee. [3] The December number of the "Quarterly Review" of 1848 is perhaps the most famous of the entire series. Its fame rests on a mystery which has baffled literary curiosity for close on half a century. "Who wrote the review of 'Jane Eyre'?" is a question that has been asked by every contributor to English literature since the critique appeared. But thus far the question has been asked in vain. The descendant and namesake of the eminent projector and proprietor of "The Quarterly" does not feel at liberty to solve the mystery by revealing the writer. I admire the loyalty of John Murray to a servant whose work has attained an evil pre-eminence. It is interesting to know, in these prying and babbling times, that in the house of Murray the secret of even a supposed ruffian is safe to the third generation. ANNOUNCEMENT. ROMANTIC STORIES FROM THE FAMILY HISTORY OF THE BRONTES. The August and succeeding issues of McCLURE'S MAGAZINE will contain a series of papers giving the dramatic and hitherto unknown history of the Brontes in Ireland. They will throw a vivid light upon the origin of the Bronte novels, and upon the ancestors of the Brontes. As Doctor Wright says: "Hugh Bronte, the father of Patrick, and grandfather of the famous novelists, first makes his appearance as if he had stepped out of a Bronte novel. His early experiences qualified him to take a permanent place beside the child 'Jane Eyre' at Mrs. Reed's. The treatment that embittered his childhood is never referred to by the grand-daughters in their correspondence, but it is quite evident that the knowledge of his hardships dominated their minds, and gave a bent to their imaginations, when depicting the misery of young lives dependent on charity." All the existing biographies of the Bronte sisters are confined to the Brontes in England. There were but two people competent to give the story of the Bronte ancestors: one, Captain Mayne Reid; and the other, Doctor William Wright, who has spent many years preparing this history.