r, asked a thousand questions,
told him about Emily and Branwell, and, slipping a few sovereigns into
his hand, advised him to hasten home. On the following day he parted
forever from the family that he would have given his life to
befriend.

No welcome awaited him at home, because he had failed in his mission.
He gave to Mr. McKee a detailed account of his adventures in England,
but I do not think anyone else ever heard from him a single word
regarding the sad home at Haworth. But as long as he lived he
regretted his helplessness to avenge the slight put upon his niece,
and seemed to look on the miscarriage of his plans as the great
failure of his life.

Since the foregoing article was put in type Doctor Wright has written
to the editor of this magazine announcing that he has discovered the
author of the "Quarterly" review. He says:

"Assuming the editor's responsibility for the incriminated
interpolations, who wrote the article itself? Secrets have a bad
time of it in our day, and the authorship of the article is no
longer a secret. As has been generally suspected, the writer was a
woman, and that woman was Miss Rigby, the daughter of a Norwich
doctor, and was better known as Lady Eastlake.

"The well-kept secret has been brought to light by Doctor
Robertson Nicoll in the 'Bookman' of September, 1892. Doctor
Nicoll found the key to the mystery in a letter written on March
31, 1849, by Sara Coleridge to Edward Quillman, and published in
the 'Memoirs and Letters of Sara Coleridge.' The following is the
passage referred to:

"'Miss Rigby's article on "Vanity Fair" was brilliant, as all her
productions are. But I could not agree to the concluding remark
about governesses. How could it benefit that uneasy class to
reduce the number of their employers, which, if high salaries were
considered in all cases indispensable, must necessarily be the
result of such a state of opinion?'

"The 'Quarterly' article on 'Vanity Fair' dealt also with 'Jane
Eyre,' and with the 'Report of the Governesses' Benevolent
Institution for 1847,' and it is without doubt the article
referred to by Sara Coleridge.

"On this matter Sara Coleridge was not likely to be under any
mistake. Miss Rigby was her intimate friend, and not likely to
conceal from her so important a literary event as the production
of a 'Quarterly' review.

"I am also informed that Mr. George Smith, the publisher of