[Offprint; Uncle Tom's Cabin] Offprint of long review by Jane Williams of Harriet Beecher Stowe's 'Uncle Tom's Cabin'

Offprint of long, learned and critical review by JW of Harriet Beecher Stowe's 'Uncle Tom's Cabin', 'From the Star of Gwent of 6th November, 1852.' 1p., folio. In three columns of small type. One autograph correction. Ascription at head: 'By Jane Williams ... Edwd. Williams'. Docketed on reverse 'Uncle Tom's Cabin | Review of by JW'. She starts off by saying that a reviewer would normally give information about the book as if the reader is unfamiliar, but "every one" is reading it. The novel introduces an English audience [this includes the Principality of Wales] to an unfamiliar world, and an institution "abhorrent in its nature". She illustrates the "dramatic talent" of the author, but objects to authorial intrusion throughout and to the grafting of "the exotic and superficial civility of France upon the uncongenial stock of American rudeness." She goes on for two more columns, at one point comparing Stowe to Dickens. She is concerned about the abuse of English, and concludes with strictures on the poor English used by Lord Carlisle in his Preface to a later edition than the one she started by discussing.