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Show UNCLE TOM'S CABIN. I-oTVoll Admired tint Oonlua in It Store Than the Moml. It was the opinion of .Tamos Huastdl Lowell, saya Charlea DudJry Warner, In th Atlantic, that the nnti-alaverv rlaent ia Uncle Tom and Dre.J 5too: in the way of a full appreciation, m len.-st in her own i-oiuitry, of tbt remarkable re-markable frenina of Xfrs. Stowc. Writ-in.tr Writ-in.tr in ISoO, hf .said: "From my hftb-H.s hftb-H.s and tlie tendency of mj studies I cannot help looking at things purely from an ae.it het'c point of view, and what I valued in Uncle Torn was the genius, and not the moral." Thisr had been, his impression when he read thf book hi Paris, long- after the whirl of excitement produwd by its publication had subsided, and far removed by distance dis-tance from local -Influence. Subsequently, Subse-quently, in a reviow, he -wrote: "We felt then, and wu believe now, that the secret of Mrs. Stow,-' power lay in that mime tpiiJuk by which tho yreat nuc-ccjscs nuc-ccjscs in ertwtive literature hao a-way a-way lren achieved the jp mas taat iiistinethrly oe to tba organic el?-u el?-u crts of hnci4n rat urn whether under a white skin or t. : lack, and wfi'ch d'v rcpardti it. trivia! th? ccnvrnt:oni ami fictitious n&tii-ns hich lpakf tarf.! a part botli of our thinkrojr and feci-in feci-in ST. Th- erratic e facxilty of Mrs. Stowe, like :but of Carrant m 'Don Quixnti-.' nd of Y'slV.'vp in 'Joseph 'Jo-seph Andrew?." oerpotr.-,! tu nrrsn peci:Uty of her rsijrE, and -':paorfrI a local nud t"rci-on,ry tjhns with, the coBinopolittiritui oi jrcnins." |