Note 2 — ON THE TRACK OF THE REVIEWER. A TRUE STORY OF REVENGE, CONNECTED WITH THE FIRST PUBLICATION OF “JANE EYRE.” By Doctor William Wright.
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The Reverend David McKee of Ballynaskeagh, a very successful school teacher, who prepared hundreds of boys for college. Among them was Captain Mayne Reid, who afterwards dedicated his book, “The White Chief,” to Mr. McKee. Ballynaskeagh, was the centre of mental activity for the country round about. Its master was the friend and neighbor of the Irish Brontës. He himself wrote several books, one of which led to the beginning of a temperance movement in Ireland. The writer of this article was his pupil at the time of the publication of “Jane Eyre,” and tells whereof he knows personally, as well as some things of which he was informed by Mr. McKee.