and most fitting monument.’...  Emily Bronte here becomes well known to us and, in one sense, this should be praise enough for any biography.”—­New York Times.

“The biographer who finds such material before him as the lives and characters of the Bronte family need have no anxiety as to the interest of his work.  Characters not only strong but so uniquely strong, genius so supreme, misfortunes so overwhelming, set in its scenery so forlornly picturesque, could not fail to attract all readers, if told even in the most prosaic language.  When we add to this, that Miss Robinson has told their story not in prosaic language, but with a literary style exhibiting all the qualities essential to good biography, our readers will understand that this life of Emily Bronte is not only as interesting as a novel, but a great deal more interesting than most novels.  As it presents most vividly a general picture of the family, there seems hardly a reason for giving it Emily’s name alone, except perhaps for the masterly chapters on ‘Wuthering Heights,’ which the reader will find a grateful condensation of the best in that powerful but somewhat forbidding story.  We know of no point in the Bronte history—­their genius, their surroundings, their faults, their happiness, their misery, their love and friendships, their peculiarities, their power, their gentleness, their patience, their pride,—­which Miss Robinson has not touched upon with conscientiousness and sympathy.”—­The Critic.

“‘Emily Bronte’ is the second of the ‘Famous Women Series,’ which Roberts Brothers, Boston, propose to publish, and of which ’George Eliot’ was the initial volume.  Not the least remarkable of a very remarkable family, the personage whose life is here written, possesses a peculiar interest to all who are at all familiar with the sad and singular history of herself and her sister Charlotte.  That the author, Miss A. Mary F. Robinson, has done her work with minute fidelity to facts as well as affectionate devotion to the subject of her sketch, is plainly to be seen all through the book.”—­Washington Post.

Famous Women Series.

MARGARET FULLER.

BY JULIA WARD HOWE.

“A memoir of the woman who first in New England took a position of moral and intellectual leadership, by the woman who wrote the Battle Hymn of the Republic, is a literary event of no common or transient interest.  The Famous Women Series will have no worthier subject and no more illustrious biographer.  Nor will the reader be disappointed,—­for the narrative is deeply interesting and full of inspiration.”—­Woman’s Journal.

“Mrs. Julia Ward Howe’s biography of Margaret Fuller, in the Famous Women Series of Messrs. Roberts Brothers, is a work which has been looked for with curiosity.  It will not disappoint expectation.  She has made a brilliant and an interesting book.