Almost as many editions of Thackeray's works have been published as of Dickens' novels, and the reader in his selection must be guided largely by his own taste. In choosing an edition, however, always get one that contains Thackeray's own illustrations, as, though the drawing is frequently crude, the sketches are full of humor and help one to understand the author's conception of the characters. The best general edition is _The Biographical_, with introductions by his daughter, Mrs. Richmond Ritchie (London, 1897-1900). The Charterhouse edition of Thackeray in twenty-six volumes, published in England by Smith, Elder & Co. and in this country by Lippincott, is an excellent library set containing all the original illustrations. No regular biography of Thackeray has ever been written because of his expressed wish, but his daughter, Mrs. Richmond Ritchie, has supplied this lack with many sketches and introductions to various editions of her father's works. Anthony Trollope in his autobiography gives many charming glimpses of Thackeray but his sketch of Thackeray in the English Men of Letters series is not warmly appreciative. One of the best short estimates of Thackeray is Charles Whibley's _Thackeray_ (1905). Also valuable are sketches by Frederic Harrison in _Early Victorian Literature_; Brownell, _Early Victorian Masters_; Whipple, _Character and Characteristic Men_; R.H. Stoddard, _Anecdote Biography of Thackeray_; Andrew Lang, _Letters to Dead Authors_; G.T. Fields, _Yesterdays With Authors_; Jeaffreson, _Novels and Novelists_ and W.B. Jerrold, _The Best of All Good Company_. The reviews and magazines, especially in the last ten years, have abounded in articles on Thackeray. Among these the best have appeared in SCRIBNER'S MAGAZINE. A small volume, _The Sense and Sentiment of Thackeray_ (Harper's, 1909), gives numerous good extracts from the novels as well as from the essays. CHARLOTTE BRONTE Smith, Elder & Co. of London were the publishers of _Jane Eyre_ and they also issued the first collected edition of Charlotte Bronte's works. This firm still publishes the standard English edition, the Haworth edition, with admirable introductions by Mrs. Humphrey Ward and with many illustrations from photographs of the places and people made memorable in Charlotte's novels. A good American edition is the Shirley edition, with excellent illustrations, many of them reproductions of rare daguerreotypes.