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Show A View of Thaefcery, Charlotte Hronte'H Letter. 1 hardly ever felt delight equal to that which cheered me when I received your letter containing an extract from a note by Mr. Thackery, in which he expressed himself gratified with the perusal pe-rusal of "Jane Lyre." Mr. Thackery is a keen, ruthless satirist. I had never perused hit writings but with feelings of blended admiration and indignation. Critics, it appears to me, do not know what an intellectual boa-constrictor he is they call him "humorous," "brilliant;" "bril-liant;" his is a most scalping humor, a most deadly brilliancy he doea not play with his prey, be coils around it and crushes it in his rings. He seems terribly in earnest ia his war against tho follies and the falsehood of the world. I wonder what the world thinks of him. 1 should think the faults of such a man would be distrust of anything any-thing good in human nature; galling suspicion of bad motives lurking behind good actioas. Are these his failings? They arc, at any rate, the failings of bis written sentiments, for be cannot find it in his heart to represent either man or woman as at once good and wise. Does he not too much confound benevolence with weakness and wisdom with mere craft? |