On June 17th, Charlotte writes:-- "Branwell declares that he neither can nor will do anything for himself; good situations have been offered him, for which, by a fortnight's work, he might have qualified himself, but he will do nothing except drink and make us all wretched." In the "Athenaeum" of July 4th, under the head of poetry for the million, came a short review of the poems of C., E., and A.Bell.

The reviewer assigns to Ellis the highest rank of the three "brothers," as he supposes them to be; he calls Ellis "a fine, quaint spirit;" and speaks of "an evident power of wing that may reach heights not here attempted." Again, with some degree of penetration, the reviewer says, that the poems of Ellis "convey an impression of originality beyond what his contributions to these volumes embody." Currer is placed midway between Ellis and Acton.

But there is little in the review to strain out, at this distance of time, as worth preserving.

Still, we can fancy with what interest it was read at Haworth Parsonage, and how the sisters would endeavour to find out reasons for opinions, or hints for the future guidance of their talents.
I call particular attention to the following letter of Charlotte's, dated July 10th, 1846.

To whom it was written, matters not; but the wholesome sense of duty in it--the sense of the supremacy of that duty which God, in placing us in families, has laid out for us, seems to deserve especial regard in these days.
"I see you are in a dilemma, and one of a peculiar and difficult nature.