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“‘INDIA: THE PEARL OF PEARL RIVER,’ taking it all inall, is the best work Mrs. Southworth has yet written. It is onegreat merit in her fictions, that they faithfully delineate life andmanners, without entering on vexed social, religious, or politicalissues. In ‘India,’ the reader will find a vivid delineation of theSouth-West. But this is not all: the characters are boldly drawn,the incidents natural, and the action of the story rapid and absorbing.The two heroines are finely contrasted. The hero is a noblecreation; strong of will, earnest in purpose, firm for the right, andpersevering to the end in whatever he believes to be justice andtruth. We cannot recall, in any late work, a character so ideallylofty, yet so faithful to reality. The heroic spirit in which he goesWest, abandoning the luxuries he has been accustomed to, andsettling down in his rude log hut, determined to conquer fortunewith his own good right hand, is, indeed, the true type of a self-relyingAmerican. No fiction of Mrs. Southworth’s bears suchproofs of careful finish. It ought, on these several accounts, tohave a popularity unrivalled by any of her former works, spite ofthe immense circulation they have attained.”
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