The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1856-01-24
INTENSE INTEREST OF THE STORY
il will awaken thinking men to a new phase OF N
absorbing question.
NOTICES. RN VII, DnI.Ss


NOTICES BY THE PRESS
The plot is simple and wrought out with entire aL
sence OF eXaggeralon Hut we have read book f,r
many day which took so strong hold the reine-
from the hrst page 10 the last. The delneaou OF u.-r
character though this forms very small pari of OLE.
story, its aim, admirable. The conhdimp and alice
uonaie temper, the ready vii. the unacctcd NATURAL p
and the mauy beautiful traits of hs oppressed race are
lightly but graphically touched upon while the unfolding
OF the dearest affections, and OF the love that Is dart
than e Is full OF an irresistible patho
than the bursts of eloqueuce scattered here and irt
which. ne points, tell very much IN a story. Al
this me especially, tins s9Usat champion Of M. r,.tf
must be heard, and We think will help silently 10 siAr
od many chains rveted by custom and ciishuess-Nt
Bsdford Mercury.
is remarkable as a genuine Anne can rop,once t,s.
Is not foreign element III II; American IN it, vrr
ldoms, IN ITS scenes characters aud local DESCRIPTION
Although II Is an iSlavery story, vet Dr.
leehgs oil Inc aulhor are not al all ob'fusye and Sou
life Is painted IN oOE!cWr he roSe nothing could be-
more favorable To Southern manners aud than
the scenes describes and they are palpably tuiha
and he-lIke that they could only have been written i
one who has lived long IN slaveholrng States
Tue story rs wrought WIN great power, the character
most distinctly and orcIby drawn and the happy denoar
ment produced in the most natural manner Il only need
ed tragic ending To have made 1t the most intensely
sofbng romance OF American life which has Yet been
written. But Others may think differently. and wouIt be-
better pleased 10 see the percentages IN whose fate their
sumpathies had been involved placed in happy crcui.
stances.-Nso York Courier.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS, who has been there and know,
says:
The book has reaIiiy about IT one feels ,hsl tho
painting - from tys. There surtinc iHlt
bllssui love-all painted giowngly II "a work MOI,
worthy OF comparison with Uncle Toms CABIN tha. .liN
other of the KIND We have seen; though wholly unIkr
incident, II Is Ike IN truth and power Do"gapS
Paper.
The language, without exception. free from stuffed
eSagSeraiion known as hne wrIung :" the LEADING
characters are distinctly invldualIXed and the prominent
idea ~ adrOty worked out without being ovrrvorked
NU York Daily Tfnss.
As a whole, Caste " is n raptivang and powruu
work The plot original, well conceived and Admirable
worked out " cannot fail Ia prove "srnSafon book
ad hnd more readers Than the popular lds Ma.
n II VIII be read more extensively the South No
VINO commences MS perusa Will lay aside m the hJr
story is known. The author Is evidently a practice
writer, close observer aud thng- fauila.
with rural llie AT the South well Norl b.,
ton Transcript
II IS written with power and palhos The Story
nal The incidents natural, and indeed things
necessary. We have doubt OF The sircr..
OF this new book National Era.
II is as distinctly original aud novel ii Ida May. or
It's predecessors, had been written and strictly
novel, and not Anli-SlayeTy tract disguised Thu,
It's teachings adverse the Institution slavery h
the reader draws tins inference; 9th
than has deduction from the events Described. g.
Is finely written interesting, and cannot fan
lis readers by thoussnds.-BOstOn Alias.
Believing this be q work OF GENUINE MERIT upeXc-g
uonabc in ITS tone, graceful IN style and absorbing IN OBJ
teres the publishers respectfully ask for IL the aIouioa
OF the reading community.
PHILLIPS, SAMPSON, & CO.,
Publishers, Boston
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