New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1859-06-13
MRS. STONES hEW NOTgL

the wsy II ia appreciation OF her remarkable
genius a. least in her OWE country L, easy II
arcoun; fr the unex,mplei popularity OF Uncle
Tom by sttiibu,ing i "a a che-p -ymPaihy ~'E sent
tinentAl Philanthropy 50 peOpl- began to rceoSe'
euu The ent enchanfmrut. they began aso "a rcsen.
L. and ic comps, thai dnSe y, that insane Garrison
r,ct which 'skrs the prisoner had been pSned
upou Il en- without their knowing Il. s0i that Their Or
drarv wster-gruel of teton, thiuned with sentiment
srd til ken@t with moral hal ben hoca-sei With the
br.i.lrriig hashr,-h Of 40 lti1n. We h ID the al
variago % ra1g that extraordinary book IN Eur'p-.
lnnc after tie W. Il q. exgemct, ptoGcrd by H. pab-
c7tion bad sab,ii in the seelu'jn Of tisacce, snd
with Judgment unsturbed by those political -ymps
tbes which i j. impossible, perhaps uawi-e to aVoti
AZ hone. We fth then, sni believe DOW, that the
secr, Of Mr. stoves power lay that "a ne gen'us
by which the great successes in orcslve literature
have always been achieved-thc genius that Instinct
lively gees right to the organic dement's Of human
rslure, whether uuder white ss~n or u bl.ck, aud
Which disr,cards as trivial the conventional and fac
tilions notions which make large pant both of our
thinking and feeling. Works of Imagination written
with an am al immediate impression are commonly
euheu eral like Miss M,rtine6us Tales and Eluous
Cun-law Nrrses but the creative ftcnlty OF Mrs
St.we Ike that Of Cervautes in =" Don Quxo;e' and
Of Fielding in Joseph Andrews, oyerpowerei the
narrow speciality of her design and expanded local
and ten porary theue With the cosmopolitan OF genius
nssploverb that there is great deal of human
"pslure in men, but is equally and sadly true that
there is amazingly little of Il 10 books FieltioS Is
the only En- gsh novelist who deals with life IN its
brosdr.ts Thackeray, his disciple and cvngeaer
and DicSeus the congeuer OF Snoett do not so muon
treat Of Life a. of the strata Of S1cety-the one
,tud nature fou the Cu6-r0om wluduS, the other
fr,.u tie Reporieis box IL tue ,lcr Court. Ii may
h that the general obItt ration of distinctions oi rank
in tri- country which Is geuersly considered detri-
tor,t TO the novelist will 10 the end turn 10 hs sivan-
tsge 10y con p.lhrg hun To depend for hs et'cts on
the contrasts and collisions v nuate character father
than on those shalOwer traits superinducsd by par
tculsr -ooio arrangements or bere'tar! ASSOCIATIONS
Sbnke peare deai, sno Fielding natural nen aud
won ep, Ttack-ray draws either gentlemen or snobs
| aud Dickens either uroetaIal uen or the odiNes
natural only in the lowest grades Of highly stocia
s,s,.m of >. ciety TIE hrsi two knew Human Nrirs;
the two latter ore knows wha, is called the World
and the other the Streets Of London. Is 1t possible
that the very social democracy which here roos tue
| novest Of SO much IomaLc", 80 much costume, 20
much suttbesis Of caste, much, 10 short, that Is
| purely external, will give bin set-rH IN making It
easier f. him to get at that element OF Universal
| Humanity which neither of the two extremes at an
nrsiocratic s,stein n the salient and pcturesqu,
pnts of contrast between the two, eau alone lay open
| TO HIM
| We hone 10 see this problem solved by Mrs. Stowe
| That kind of romantic interest which Scott evolved
f,om the relations vi lord and yassal, OF chiet and
clans,nnu from the social than the moral cou-
,rast Of Rourdhead and Cavalier, of fardescehdcd
pauper and noureau RICHIE which Coopor found in the
! 4 i1,ti. N nd tho SHAGGY
virtue brea On the border land between the two, Ia
dian by habit, white by tradition, Mrs. Stowe seems
in her former royel. have soug in form of soce
~ alien to her sympathies aud too remote for exact
suny or for the requirement of ocai truth, which Is
! the slow result Of unconscious observation. There
| can be DO stronger proof OF the greatness of her
| genus, Of Der possessing that ooncepiye faculty
which belongs to Il higher order of Imagination than
the ayioity with which Uncle Tom was Rad at the
South 1t settled the point that this book was true
TO human nature II not ninutey 50 TO plantation
Hfe
II capable Of 80 great triumph where success
must so largely depend on the sympathetic insight OF
her mere creative power have We not right To eN-
poet something far keeping WITH the require
ments If art row that her wonderful eye to b. the
Mirror of familiar scenes AID Of a society In which
| she WAS bred of which she has ~ many vario-
ties and tia too, in the country where II Is most
naive aud original 1t is gseGt satisfaction to US
that in the Ministers Wooiug" she has chosen her
theme and laid her .ceIe amid New Eoglend habits
and traditions. There is 10 other writer who Is caQa-
bic Of perpetuaiing for u.s. in work of art, style OF
thought suo manners witch railways aud newspapers
will coon reu Ter rs paleozoic the mastodou or the
.auraps Thus far the story bas fully justified our
hopes The leading characters are all fresh aud ndi-
| yidual creatons-Mrs. Katy Scudder, the notable
| Yankee housewife; May, in whom Cupid "a to try
| conclusions with Cayio; james Marvyo, the aeveu-
turuus boy Of the coast, in whose heart the Wild re-
eiou of nature swrs TIL the strait swathings Of Put
ri,anlsm are bur-t; Dr.. Hopkins the conscientious
mister come upon time when the social prestige
r the clergy is waning and whose independence viii
test the voluntary system of ministerial support s-
con Brown the man Of theologic dialectic., in whom
the utmost perfection vi creed sawn Ia be not in
consistent with the most contradictory inperfsction OF
hfe-and oil these are characters new 10 literature
And the scene is laid Just far enough away 10 point OF
| time to give proper tone and perspective.
! We think we find in the story the promise Of an
interest az unbsckueyed a. it viii be intense There
i room Tor the play Of all the passions and interests
that make up the great comedy offe, waie all the
.ceLery and accessories will be thoe which familiarity
! has made dear 10 us We sre little afraid Of Colonel
Burr to be ure is so hard 20 make hi;1rical per-
sonaee fulfil the coudii0ns demanded BY the novel OF
| EVERYDAY lie. He il almost cure to fall below our
traditional conception Of bin, or 10 rise above the
ratnral AZ easy level Of character necessary 20 k>
| - wanna th. melo,iyhmrfic. Moreover,