rsations; 5. A True Story continued; 6. The
Spirit of Cawdor; 7. Interior of a Pothouse, a Poem; 8. The Glass
Town, a Song; 9. The Silver Cup, a Tale; 10. The Table and Vase in
the Desert, a Song; 11. Conversations; 12. Scene on the Great
Bridge; 13. Song of the Ancient Britons; 14. Scene in my Tun, a
Tale; 15. An American Tale; 16. Lines written on seeing the Garden
of a Genius; 17. The Lay of the Glass Town; 18. The Swiss Artist, a
Tale; 19. Lines on the Transfer of this Magazine; 20. On the Same,
by a different hand; 21. Chief Genii in Council; 22. Harvest in
Spain; 23. The Swiss Artists continued; 24. Conversations.

The Poetaster, a Drama, in 2 volumes, July 12th, 1830.

A Book of Rhymes, finished December 17th, 1829. Contents:--1. The
Beauty of Nature; 2. A Short Poem; 3. Meditations while Journeying
in a Canadian Forest; 4. Song of an Exile; 5. On Seeing the Ruins of
the Tower of Babel; 6. _A Thing of_ 14 _lines_; 7. Lines written on
the Bank of a River one fine Summer Evening; 8. Spring, a Song; 9.
Autumn, a Song.

Miscellaneous Poems, finished May 30th, 1830. Contents:--1. The
Churchyard; 2. Description of the Duke of Wellington's Palace on the
Pleasant Banks of the Lusiva; this article is a small prose tale or
incident; 3. Pleasure; 4. Lines written on the Summit of a high
Mountain of the North of England; 5. Winter; 6. Two Fragments,
namely, 1st, The Vision; 2nd, A Short untitled Poem; the Evening Walk,
a Poem, June 23rd, 1830.

Making in the whole twenty-two volumes.

C. BRONTE, _August_ 3, 1830

As each volume contains from sixty to a hundred pages, and the size of
the page lithographed is rather less than the average, the amount of the
whole seems very great, if we remember that it was all written in about
fifteen months. So much for the quantity; the quality strikes me as of
singular merit for a girl of thirteen or fourteen. Both as a specimen of
her prose style at this time, and also as revealing something of the
quiet domestic life led by these children, I take an extract from the
introduction to "Tales of the Islanders," the title of one of their
"Little Magazines:"--

"June the 31st, 1829.

"The play of the 'Islanders' was formed in December, 1827, in the
following manner. One night, about the time when the cold sleet and
stormy fogs of November are succeeded by the