2 MAY 1914, Page 26

The Secret of Charlotte Bronti , . Ey Frederika Macdonald. (T. C.

and E. C. Jack. Ss. 6d. net.)—Mrs. Macdonald was a pupil at the Brussels school which is so incisively described in Valetta, where she became intimately acquainted with IL and Dime. Heger—a name which she writes without the accent usually given to it. In the light of personal know- ledge, and of the letters recently presented by M. Paul Heger to the British Museum, Mrs. Macdonald finds Charlotte Bronte's secret in the fact that she saw life "through the medium of one passion—theaiassion of a predestined tragical and unrequited love" for her Brussels master.