Birmingham: Messrs. Cornish Brothers, Ltd. Bristol: Messrs. James Fawn & Son. Bury, Lanc.: Mr. E. W. B. Smith. Dublin: Messrs. Hodges, Figgis, & Co., Ltd. Exeter: Messrs. Eland Brothers. Glasgow: Messrs. James Maclehose & Sons. Huddersfield: Mr. Fred Blackburn. Keighley: Messrs. Billows & Co. Leeds: Mr. J. Brearley. London: Messrs. John & Edward Bumpus, Ltd., 350 Oxford Street, W. Messrs. George Robertson & Co., Proprietary, Ltd., 17 Warwick Square, E.C. Messrs. Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co., Ltd., 31 & 32 Paternoster Row, London, E.C. Messrs. Truslove & Hanson, Ltd. 153 Oxford Street, W. Manchester: Messrs. J. E. Cornish, Ltd. Oxford: Mr. B. H. Blackwell. PRINTED BY THE WALTER SCOTT PUBLISHING CO., LTD., FELLING-ON-TYNE. FOOTNOTES: [1] Clement Shorter in _Charlotte Brontë and her Sisters_, p. 236; 1905. [2] Clara H. Whitmore, A.M., in _Woman's Work in English Fiction_; 1910. [3] _The Saturday Review_, September 6, 1902. A correspondence followed. [4] _The Fortnightly Review_, March 1907. [5] _The Brontës in Ireland_, by Dr. William Wright, 1893, and _The Brontë Homeland_, by J. Ramsden, 1897, though they conflict, deal interestingly with Patrick Brunty's, or Brontë's, relations. "Patrick ... after being a linen weaver secured the post of teacher in the Glascar School, Ballynaskeagh, then that of teacher at Drumballyroney." Eventually he got a scholarship and entered St. John's College, Cambridge, where he graduated and took Holy Orders. His father was a Hugh Brunty, who married a Roman Catholic, Alice McClory, or M'Clory. She is said to have become a Protestant, as was her husband. Of this marriage there were ten children, the eldest being Charlotte Brontë's father, who early took to "larnin'," to quote the Irish hearsay. _The Brontës in Ireland_ has been challenged as presenting many statements impossible of verification. The assertion that an Irish Brunty foundling story suggested the foundling of _Wuthering Heights_ raised a harsh and voluminous controversy. The Rev. Angus Mackay, in his little brochure _The Brontës--Fact and Fiction_, 1897, controverted Dr. Wright, as did others elsewhere. The matter is summed up succinctly by Mr. Horsfall Turner, the Yorkshire genealogist, in _The Rev. Patrick Brontë's Collected Works_, 1898, where, speaking of the Irish Brontës and the foundling story, he says:--"The only one who could transmit this story was Hugh Brunty, and not one of his descendants ever heard of it before Dr. Wright's book was issued, not even the vaguest tradition." [6] The "wild, weird writings" of her childhood, which awed homely Mrs. Gaskell, were merely badly, or I may say, childishly, assimilated fragments from English adaptations found in Dryden, Rowe, etc., of Lucan (Pharsalia, lib. 1, 73), and of other ancient writers.