Patrick Branwell Brontë #220150

And rancorous contempt, is futile; abuse is not argument. It remains, therefore, in the interests of literary justice that Bramwell's claim Should be carefully examined, as I have endeavoured, how ever inadequately, to examine it in the following pages, and I venture to submit the accumulated evidence which has been brought to light Since Mr. Leyland's day to the unbiassed judgment Of my readers.