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This vivid and pointed novel of modern society presents to us in a story, which will not be called exaggerated, some of those phases of life around us which are none the less dangerous because they are called contemptible. The extravagance of the newly rich, who have never learned the use of money, and the failure of the substitutes by which people who live by sensation try to supply the place of honor and religion, have never been portrayed more precisely. At the same time Mrs. Stowe does justice to that sex which is not enough remembered in the discussion of the wrongs of Woman. For she describes, as no one else can describe, the tyranny under which a loyal and chivalrous gentleman suffers most terribly. The pen, which more than any other quickened the public heart till the black slavery of centuries was broken, will render a service not less considerable, if it so wake the conscience of men and women that pink and white tyranny of women over men shall be impossible.

ROBERTS BROTHERS, Publishers,.