To this she sent the following reply:-- 'Your book, dear Mrs.Stowe, is of the little leaven kind, and must prove a great moral force; perhaps not manifestly so much as secretly.
And yet I can hardly conceive so much power without immediate and sensible effects: only there will be a strong disposition to resist on the part of all hollow-hearted professors of religion, whose heathenisms you so unsparingly expose.

They have a class feeling like others.
'To the young, and to those who do not reflect much on what is offered to their belief, you will do great good by showing how spiritual food is often adulterated.

The bread from heaven is in the same case as bakers' bread.
'If there is truth in what I heard Lord Byron say, that works of fiction live only by the amount of truth which they contain, your story is sure of a long life.

Of the few critiques I have seen, the best is in "The Examiner." I find an obtuseness as to the spirit and aim of the book, as if you had designed to make the best novel of the season, or to keep up the reputation of one.

You are reproached, as Walter Scott was, with too much scriptural quotation; not, that I have heard, with phrases of an opposite character.
'The effects of such reading till a late hour one evening appeared to influence me very singularly in a dream.