Litchfield enquirer. [volume] (Litchfield, Conn.) 1829-current, 1852-12-16
JUNGLE TOM,

! Correspondence Of the Boston Atlas.
who reads an American book = was
once asked in scorn by the bigoted Quar-
terly Review, and our thin skinned coun.
tryunen took il in high dudgeon. The
question, if again asked, might readily find,
an answer at once satisfactory to our pride
and surprising in itself Indeed. one might
almost be tempted to ask in turn who reads
anything else This subject has been
orcibly suggested TO my mind by the last
number of the London Atheneum, 10
which the various advertisements Of differ
snt editions Of 'Uncle TOMS Cabin illus
lrated and costly, or cheap aud for the mill
ION, would seem to justify the suspicion
that an American book just now monopo>
Used the reading public of this city and
nation. Besides the various forms ia
which this work has been issued, notice
that Adam and Charles Black, Edinburgh,
announce, under the title of The annual
for 1883 very profusely illustrated edi>
ton, suitable as Drawing Room Table and
Gift Book. to be printed in the most ele'
CANT style, uniform with the illustrated
edition of Sir Walter SCOTS Lady of the
Lake, and from the labor and expense in
Cured in the production, not TO be sur~
passed by any other edition.
Another publishing firm occupy whole
page of this new spaper. with an ADVERTISE
mont of Now and Forthcoming Works,
by American Authors Among them are
found The Authors illustrated edition OF
Uncle Toms Cabin, revised and added to
by the author, with valuable Analy sis and
Appendix, profusely illustrated under the
direction of the author, from drawings
from nature, by artists who have for some
time been engaged in the study of the hab
its and manners of the slaves Of the United
States. Royal Svo.' "A Peep into Uncle
Toms Cabin, in which the characters of
Eva and Uncle Tom are especially portray
ed for children, &C. Besides, however,
various forms of Uncle Tom. the popularity
of which is at least as much owing to The
unfavorable light in which it presents our
country and its institutions, as to its own
merits, may be found the announcement of
other American books, in which, as Amer.
leans, we may take an unalloyed PRIDE
Among them are Professor Goodrich's
Select British Eloquence,' Emerson's sIm-
pressions of Europe, Professor Hitchcock's
Geology of the Globe Illustrated Whitti>
er's new poem, THE Chapel of the Her.
init, Grace Greenwood's and Haw: horne's
works, each complete in two volumes, and
Daniel Webster's Speeches, with Mr.. Ev~
erett's notice of his life and works, By
the way, the AihenWum, in announcing the
death OF MIR. Webster, concludes with
His works have quite recently been col>
lected in six octave volumes, with prefa-
tory revision by Mr.. George Everett Such
is fame
The same advertisement from which
have already quoted SO much, also an.
nounces as shortly to be issued Pictorial
Geography of the Globe, under the joint
authorship Of Richard Hildreth, Esq, and
Professor Goodrich (Peter Farley )'-and
: Hawthorne 3 Life of General Pierce ]
do not think the question will be soon asks
ed again in London, as TO who reads an
American book.
MRS. S5owE AND MRS. SHERWOOD.
Literary World of the present week quotes
parallel passages showing very striking
resemblance between Uncle Toms Cabin
and AIRS. Sherwood's Little Henry and His
Bearer 1t is very evident that Mrs.
Stowe, in composing her story, had in her
mind .unconsciously no doubt, many Of the
scenes from the book of her predece ssor.
The Lesemblances cannot be merely &C.
cidental-still they are not sufficiently
marked to authorize charge Of plagiarism
against Mrs Stowe. She stands better
than Chancellor D'lsraeli in this respect.
Verify there would seem to be nothing new
under the sun.
Boston Transcript.
~"Uncle Toms A Ina nae |" is the til
tie Of new London publication.