The literary history of the remarkable sisters, Charlotte, Emily, and Anne Bront<j, illustrates in a very interesting manner the exigencies of authorship. These girls lived with their father in a Bechicled hamlet in the north of England, and were desirous of publishing a volumne of poems. They wrote to a publishing house, and arranged to have the book printed and published at the authors' expense. The volume fell dead from the press, and the girls remitted the bill, which amounted to about seventy pounds. It was a hard loss, and made a gap in the little funds of the family, but there was no avoiding the result, which was borne with cheerfulness. The poems were pub lished as the production of three brothers, Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell, and the best notice which any of them received was accorded to the poems of Ellis (Emily), ■who was considered by Charlotte the most talented of the family. The gifted sisters were not disheartened. Charlotte had written a novel which she sent to a pub lisher, who returned it. It was afterward sent to six other houses, and was declined by every one. The book was called "The Professor." Charlotte, while the work was going the rounds,commenced " Jane Eyre, " •which she determined to make more of a sensation novel than The "Professor, "and succeeded to a remarkable degree. The manuscript was sent to Smith, Elder & Co., and was published at their risk, and had a ready sale. Subsequently the author and her sister Anne went to London to see the publishers, and the latter were astonished to behold two diminutive young women clad in dress of rural simplicity, who represented so popular a book as Jane Eyre. Charlotte had Smith, Elder & Co.'s business aorrespondence as a proof of her identity, and this removed all doubt. Then, for the 6rst time, the publishers learned that Currer Bell, once supposed to be a man, was a delicate girl, whose studies of life and society had been •of a very limited character. Such was the entrance of one of themost talented families of the present age into the literary world. How tedious and thorny a path they trod can only be learned by experience. 