The Reverend Thomas Dixon is a rather stagy Simon Legree: in his avowed views a deal like the gentleman with the spiritual hydrophobia in the latter end of Uncle Tom's Cabin.

Unconsciously Mr.
Dixon has done his best to prove that Legree was not a fictitious character.
* * * * * Joel Chandler Harris, Harry Stillwell Edwards, George W.Cable, Thomas Nelson Page, James Lane Allen, and Mark Twain are Southern men in Mr.
Griffith's class.

I recommend their works to him as a better basis for future Southern scenarios.
The Birth of a Nation has been very properly denounced for its Simon Legree qualities by Francis Hackett, Jane Addams, and others.

But it is still true that it is a wonder in its Griffith sections.

In its handling of masses of men it further illustrates the principles that made notable the old one-reel Battle film described in the beginning of this chapter.
The Battle in the end is greater, because of its self-possession and concentration: all packed into twenty minutes.
When, in The Birth of a Nation, Lincoln (impersonated by Joseph Henabery) goes down before the assassin, it is a master-scene.