Page:My Bondage and My Freedom (1855).djvu/478



John Wesley said the best tunes had long been in the service of the devil. He thought it well to reclaim them for better purposes. The same is true of novels and romances they have heretofore been almost exclusively devoted either to vice, or to very questionable amusement But the tide is turning. Fiction is beginning to serve the cause of virtue and humanity. have just brought out a new anti-slavery story, entitled “,” which bids fair to equal anything that has gone before it. It argues well for anti-slavery, when the first publishing houses in the nation—yes, in all nations—find it for their interest to publish such works as “Uncle Tom's Cabin” and “.”—Northern Christian Advocate.

Its style is engaging, its logic weighty, and its deductions natural. It does not content itself with abusing an evil from a distance, but grapples and wrestles with it, right manfully. “Our World” will excite, first, attention, then admiration throughout the country, and take its place at the head of all recently published books.—Buffalo Morning Express.

It is a work not to be road and thrown aside, but a work to be read and pandered over. The novel is a perfect melodrama for startling situations and effects, and we have never read a fictitious story which so completely engrossed one's attention from commencement to close.—Boston Evening Gazette.

It is enough to say, that the book will make a stir in the world. It is another battering ram, thundering against the wall of oppression, and is destined to make an impression second only to “Uncle Tom's Cabin.”—Western Literary Messenger.

It is written with great power, and evinces a thorough knowledge of the subject treated.—Buffalo Democracy. It is the production of one who gleans his facts not from the narratives of others, but from personal observation and experience. The author's birth and education were in New England, but he has long resided in the South, and become intimately familiar with its people and its institutions, and can, therefore, speak accurately and dispassionately of “things as they are.”—Chicago Literary Budget.

We have no hesitation in pronouncing it one of the most remarkable and powerful original works ever published in America.—Philadelphia Daily News.

This work stirs the soul like a trumpet; or, like the sounds from the home of captivity, awakens untold sensations in our heart of hearts, especially if we love freedom.—Albany Spectator.

Nothing on this subject, since the days of “Uncle Tom's Cabin,” has at all equaled it, and it promises to have a sale almost rivaling that most popular work.—Hillsdale Gazette.

This book will have an immense sale. Coming at the time it does, when the slave power is rapidly encroaching on free soil, everything which shows the blackness of the stain upon our nation's flag, will be welcomed. This tale shows the deep and damning sin of slavery in its true fight, but at the same time gives all the good which can possibly accrue from the “peculiar institution.” The author has taken a noble stand in the cause of freedom, and while sincere, is tolerant, and while just, is charitable. Every friend of Freedom will read the work.—Poughkeepsie Eagle.

Such a thrilling, truthful tale, so full of interest and of manly thought, we have not read since our eyes saw the finis of “Uncle Tom's Cabin.”—Weekly Visitor.

This book is a picture so true to reality, that it must make its way into the family circle. The pen of the author, under the inspiration of the patriotic fires of Liberty, has diffused the convincing spirit of fact throughout the text, in cubic magnitude.—Daily Advertiser.

The work, throughout, is one of great power and intense interest. It paints in vivid and truthful colors the long train of evils, moral, social, and political, which the monster, slavery, entails upon the white population of the south, no less than the wrongs inflicted upon the slaves. The author does not write from hearsay; he has spent much time in an official capacity at the South, and his position afforded him facilities for observing the workings of the monstrous institution in all its different phases.—Christian Freeman. Publishers,&emsp;&emsp;

25 Park Row,, and 107 Genesee-st., .&emsp;