And photographs of Patrick Brontë's boots.

And men and maids will doubtless march with banners

To prove their worship of your "massive brain";

And intellectual Chicago "canners"

Will send their relics from across the main;

And critics will discuss your various manners,

And Harold Begbie will pronounce you "sane";

In short, you'll be the bookman's prey and quarry

At many a high-class literary "swarry."

Well, well, brave Charlotte, though our admiration