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XXX.—NOTICES OF BOOKS.
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Xxx.—Notices Of Books.
XXX . —NOTICES OF BOOKS .
^ J <K < » ^ The Minister's Wooing. By H...
_^ _j _< K _< _» The Minister ' s Wooing . By H . Beeelier Stowe , Author of " Uncle Tom ' s
Cabin , " etc . Price 2 s . 6 d . Sampson and Low , Ludgate Hill . Mrs . Beeelier Stowe has surpassed herself in this tale , and lias given
to New England literature a gem worthy to take the place therein ¦ which the " Vicar of Wakefield " holds in the literature of England .
So essentially a home-tale is it , so closely interwoven with all the most subtle and delicate threads of New England life , that , though
it cannot fail to find general favor , it is only those who know the country and the people who can estimate it at its real worth .
* Every page is instinct with tlie vigorous spiritual and mental life of the Puritan fathers and their early descendants : the characters
stand out in strong relief , each one real as a portrait by Vandyck , while a few masterly strokes here and there put the reader at once
in possession of the manner of man he has to deal with . Witness the following description of the well-known Aaron Burr , a "
ladykiller " of tragic memory : — the " Burr was of those one of navi those tors men wh , willing o ive to to p simp lay with le natives , any charming glass beads " woman and
feathers game in return for gold ga and diamonds g ; to accept from a woman her heart ' s Hood in return for such odds , ends , and clippings have as he been could told afford in
her extenuation from indul the of serious Aaron but ambitions B in urr the , that most of life he consummate . was * not * a * man and * of We refined gross passions or , of of
gallantry coarse : gence this , , then , is the descriptive name which polite sense socie a , man ty has invented for the man who does this thing . tlie
mental '' Of old bread it was and thoug wine ht had that touched one who the administered very height of poison impious in sacrilege sacra- ; but this crime is white by the side of his who poisons God ' s eternal
sacrament of loveand destroys woman ' s soul through her noblest and purest affections . " , And again : —
ments " The were Doctor so had fine-pointed practised and his keen subtile -edged mental that an he alysis scarce till ever Ms allowed
instrua ieces flower to of see sacred if its emotion genera and to spring species in were his soul correct , without . Love picking , gratitude it to ,
p reverence all compelled , benevolence to pause — midway which all while moved he rubbed in mighty up his tides optical in his instruments soul—were
to see whether they were rising in right order . " This same Doctorearnest , upright , and single-hearted , adored by
, his congregation , finds himself suddenly called upon to " testify _" against slavery , and , as a bomb falling suddenly in the midst of a
home circle , the denunciation of slavery to a slave-holding commu-
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Nov. 1, 1859, page 203, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01111859/page/59/
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