Note 10 — UNCLE TOM’S CABIN.

The next sentence in the text is a striking instance of the superfluous and even irritating habit of Mrs Stowe already alluded to. As if she had not painted so vividly as to touch the most stolid feelings, she adds—“It was a curious mixture of the pathetic and the ludicrous—the little old stocking, black crape, text-book, fair soft curl, and Topsy’s utter distress.” Surely this is writing under the picture of a horse—“This is a horse: do you see its hair, head, neck, body, legs, hoofs, and tail? And it has eyes and nostrils!”