In a letter which I had from him on this subject, their father writes:--"The servants often said that they had never seen such a clever little child" (as Charlotte), "and that they were obliged to be on their guard as to what they said and did before her.

Yet she and the servants always lived on good terms with each other." These servants are yet alive; elderly women residing in Bradford.

They retain a faithful and fond recollection of Charlotte, and speak of her unvarying kindness from the "time when she was ever such a little child!" when she would not rest till she had got the old disused cradle sent from the parsonage to the house where the parents of one of them lived, to serve for a little infant sister.

They tell of one long series of kind and thoughtful actions from this early period to the last weeks of Charlotte Bronte's life; and, though she had left her place many years ago, one of these former servants went over from Bradford to Haworth on purpose to see Mr.Bronte, and offer him her true sympathy, when his last child died.

I may add a little anecdote as a testimony to the admirable character of the likeness of Miss Bronte prefixed to this volume.