Excerpt from "Uncle Tom's Cabin" Reviewed: Or, American Society Vindicated From the Aspersions Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe

IT is one of the di¿iculties of literary criticism to do justice to a female )writer. So long as the distinctive charms of the sex remain unobliterated, their powerful: in¿uence must continue to control, in a great meas are, the feelings, and through them, the judgment of the reader. The profound deference of the days of chivalry has, indeed, given place to a rational homage better suited to an enlightened age, but in all civilized lands, and in every, gentleman's breast, there still pre vails a sentiment of respect for the fairer portion of society, which we hope will never cease to be felt. But the power of female fascination to mitigate the just rigor of criticism, and palliate the heinousness of literary offences, is, in some points of view, much to' be deplored. Unfortunately for the world, a cheap and mercenary literature now furnishes to every form of error the means and facilities most favorable to its propagation, and a class of female writers has sprung up and is increasing, whose pens are busily employed, under the guise of philanthropy, in the work of demo.

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