New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1853-12-27
THE DAILY CRESCENT,
TUESDAY MORNING, DECEMBER g. 1858.
ED5TORIsL B00Y..vOTES.


Uncle Toms Cabin or life among the lowly.p b
Harriet Beecher Stowe One hundred and twentieth
thousand Boston Johh p. Jewett 4 Co, 1852 vols
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Here is book that has at once, at home ant
abroad, scared to q boundlcss popularity, t.
editions innumerable, and to all that sudden
ness Of fame, which never yet, within example
has been won by any composition of permanen
merit For what is soberly good, wise, or ever
elegant, invariably makes its way more slowly
TO . wide admiration; and never did reputa-
ticn come 90 quick, to tarry long Your fashy
rsncwn, that shoots up, sky-rocket, presently
!, tumbles down, stick.
The literary production Of temporary no.
ton, this thing, in short, receives its supposed
excellence from the excitement Of the hour
which that notion has been able to kindle
When that excitement shall of itself have passed
away or when some new freak Of philosophi-
xing feeling, mounting upon the worlds pineal
gland, shall have pushed the present one from
its stool, enquire for the fame of Mrs. Harriet
Beecher Stowe, and it shall be heard of no more
or shall live but as thing Of far more sense
and truth-the Amadis de Gaul-survives, an
empty name of what once was celebrated, a
vague literary tradition, lingering only among
those tales of other times, which the curious
and the studious con, in their seclusien.
For the real critic, it was easy, upon merely
the signs exterior to the hook, to tell what could
at most be its merit. There could, as to those
graver purposes for which men write, be little
truth or sense in what owed its conception and
its existence to the spirit, the passion the SEN
timent of the instant only The very judg-
ments Of the mass Of men are little to be trust
cd, unless either confirmed by the sober voice Of
the Contemporary wise OF by the repeated suf-
frage of more than one generation of the vul-
gar what confidence, then, can that demand
which is written not even for the judgments Of
succession of giddy multitudes, but simply to
catch or to express the passionate impulses
rather than ideas, which have, at certain mo-
ment seized upon the existing boiy of the many,
in few countries' Or Ito apply all this to
special subject) what person instructed enough
to embrace in his thought the amplitude Of
atimes and of faces necessary for forming a solid
opinion as to any ancient and universal human
institution, must not conclude that what has ex-
listed among all societies personal slavery, we
mean) even the happiest and freest, cannot be
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