[55] I discovered these most remarkable parallelisms by my knowledge and application of Charlotte Brontë's Method I., a fact that finally declares her the author of both _Wuthering Heights_ and _Jane Eyre_. [56] Mr. G. W. MacArthur Reynolds, the editor of _The London Journal_ issued from _The Weekly Times_ Office, which ran M. Sue's _feuilleton_, was well-known in French literary circles in the eighteen-forties. He founded in Paris _The London and Paris Courier_, and was likely enough a friend of M. Sue. It may be, indeed, there was some sort of understanding between him and Eugène Sue to set before the world an interpretation of _Jane Eyre_, with the extraordinary information come privily to M. Sue. Some time after its publication, Mr. Reynolds stated that "the main incidents in 'Mary Lawson' were founded on actual realities." This we shall find. It is a remarkable fact in the circumstances that _The London Journal_ for August 1, 1846--a year before _Jane Eyre_ was published, printed on one page the opening instalment of M. Sue's _Martin the Foundling_, and Charlotte Brontë's poem "The Letter," with a footnote--"From a volume entitled _Poems by Cuvier (sic), Ellis and Acton Bell_; London, Aylott & Jones." The reader may perhaps recognize the original of Mr. Rochester in the person to whom the letter is being written. [57] See my footnote, page 120. [58] It may be relative to this fact that "Lagrange's Manuscript" is not printed in the extant French edition of _Miss Mary_. [59] Great stress is laid in this _feuilleton_ by M. Sue upon the fact that the trouble of this teacher is her dissolute brother. See my footnote on p. 24. [60] See my footnote, p. 37. [61] Mrs. Gaskell dwelt much on Charlotte Brontë's plainness in her _Life_, published seven years after the above. [62] _Wuthering Heights_ with _Agnes Grey_ had been accepted by Mr. Newby, its publisher, before Messrs. Smith, Elder & Co. saw the manuscript of _Jane Eyre_, but _Jane Eyre_ was published first.