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Show UhOt-u. TOi'3 CBIri. Stroll Admired tlio Ooniua In It More t ' " Tlmn I tin Month ' ' li was the opinion of .Tame Riwacll CTiOwell, says ChurleH Dudley Warner, in the Atlantic, that the anti-alavexy .,., ricmrait In Uncle Tom and Drrd stooJ ff '- ' " in the. way of a full appreciation, at ',,. ' leant in her own country, of tho re- marhable gouiun of Mrs. Sto-we. Writ- V ' injy in 1850, hesuid: "From my hob- Ct,-- its and the tendency of my studies I cannot help looking: at thing purely 4 g.1 from an ueatlutc point of iev, and Wl .' ' what I valued in Uncle Tom was the bAf a jjoiii"". d llot the moral." This had ff """ , ', ' been, bin impression when he read the L'i " - book' in Paris, Ion? utter the whirl of H iMociUiinent produced by its publication ,jN liad subsided, and far removed by dU- f tniice from local influences. Subeo fa l piently, in a n-vew, he wrote: "Wc ' ' felt then, and we believe now, that the !, ' mm ret of Mrs. Stowe's jiower lay in tlnit il ' ' name genius by which the great sue- ) J eenscs in erevitivo litcraturu have al- . , ways "been achieved the ffeuiua that tf , instinctively goes to the urpmle el- racnts of human naturt", whether under n white shin or a black, and which di- TCjjards as trivial the conventions and fictitiouw uotiona which make ho lairre n iirt both of our thinhirg and feel- ", ' jujr. The creative faculty of , -' k Wrs. Stowe, like that, of r'urnlttn in ; - 'Don Quixote,' and of 3'ieldilitf in Mo- tfif j.Upli Andri'WB.'oveiT-oweredthB narrow iy " .speuiidty of her duifrn, ard expanded V-W Jl ,ocal 1U11 temporary theme with the ftf ' ifiwinopoliUinUm of genius." |