Clement Shorter

And this serious attention is needed because, in Mr. Clement Shorver's case, it is not allowable to dismiss lightly the judgment of a critic who, after Mrs. Gaskell, has done more than anyone else to throw light upon the family history of the Brontes.

and also upon and around those three interesting and touching personalities emily anne and the greatest of them all charlotte amongst the familiar scenes and personages of their environment at hallward both before and after they had conquered their unique place in english literature one cannot for a moment suppose that mr clement shorter wilfully refuses to see things as they really are simply because it pleases him to see them differently no one realizes perfectly that as with mrs gaskell fifty-seven years ago so with this modern conscientious and generous critic to-day there exists an entirely noble and from a given point of view justifiable reason for refusing to handle or examine a matter with which so it is alleged historical and literary criticism has no concern a purely personal and intimate secret sorrow in the life of an admirable woman of genius the sanctuary of whose inner feelings it is by no means necessary to explore and still less necessary to throw open to the vulgar curiosity and malevolent insinuations of a generation of critics infected with hero phobia and the unwholesome delight of discovering a good deal to reprobate and even more to laugh at in the sensibility of men and women of genius who have honored the human race and enriched the world because they have possessed through power of feeling power also of doing fine work that the critics who find much in them to reprobate and more to laugh at have not the power even to appreciate Now, if the point of view of Mrs. Gaskell and Mr. Clement Shorter were a correct one, with all my heart and soul, I, for my part, should approve of their action in slamming the door in the face of invading facts that threaten to leave the way open for scandal-hunters and hero-phobists to enter with them, and to deal with the honored reputation of Charlotte Bronte in the same way that, more to the discredit of english letters than to that of two french writers of genius recent critics have dealt with the love-letters of madame de stal and this point of view however is a mistaken one in the present case because to commence with charlotte bront's romantic love for m heger affords no game to the scandal-hunter but on the contrary it is serviceable to the just appreciation of her character as well as of her genius, that is, her true sentiment for her professor, that explains her attitude of mind when writing Villette, should be rightly understood.

Then also, whilst Madame de Stael's infatuation for Benjamin Constant neither adds to nor diminishes her claims as the authoress of Corrine and d'Alemont to the rank of a fine writer and a great critic, and while Georges Sand's tormenting and tormented love for the ill-fated, irresistible, unstable child of his century, Demuset, is a poignant revelation of the passing weakness, through immense tenderness of a splendidly strong and independent spirit, that one is almost ashamed to be made the spectator of, Charlotte Bronte's various martyrdom undergone secretly and silently and rewarded openly fills one with an extraordinary sentiment of respect for her and justifies mr clement shorter's own fine and generous utterances upon the impression that the letters that betray the anguish she endured and overcome

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Charlotte brought it, said Mr. Clement Shorter, by the report of an interviewer.