Note 7 — UNCLE TOM’S CABIN.

Mrs Stowe is evidently very anxious to ingratiate her favourite hero with her readers—and perhaps with young ladies she may succeed—by constantly dwelling on his “large, blue, flashing eyes”—“large, melancholy, blue eyes”—“his fine face, classic as that of a Greek statue”—and so forth; but sterner touches are requisite to make him a manly hero. It seems also somewhat odd to see him “sitting on the floor, and laying his head back in Miss Ophelia’s lap”—who lays her “hand on his forehead”—he saying to her, “Don’t take on, so awfully serious!”