In these letters much instruction, not a little entertainment, and the beatings of a manly heart, on behalf of a down-trodden race, with which they will not fail to sympathize."
The Rev. Dr. Campbell, in the British Banner, devotes nearly two columns to Mr. Brown and his work, and concludes in these words:—
"We have read this book with an unusual measure of interest. Seldom, indeed, hare we met with any thing more captivating. It somehow happens that all these fugitive slaves are persons of superior talents. The pith of the volume consists in narratives of voyages and journeys made by the author in England, Scotland, Ireland, and France; and we can assure our readers that Mr. Brown has travelled to some purpose. The number of white men is not great who could have made more of the many things that came before them. There is in the work a vast amount of quotable matter, which, but for want of apace, we should be glad to extract. As the volume, however, is published with a view to promote the benefit of the interesting fugitive, we deem it better to give a general opinion, by which curiosity may be whetted, than to gratify it by large citation. A book more worth the money has not, for a considerable time, come into our hands."
And even a word of cheer comes to the author from Printing-House Square, for The Times reviews the book, and says,—
"He writes with ease and ability, and his intelligent observations upon the great question to which he has devoted and is devoting his life will be read with interest, and will command influence and respect."
If this be a fair representative of the American slaves, (and we see no reason to doubt it,) the sooner that our trans-Atlantic cousins abolish their hateful system, the better it will be for the character of those who profess to love Christ, and to live up to his precepts. Such men as 'William Wells Brown, Frederick Douglass, and the Rev. Alexander Crummell, will lose nothing by a comparison with the best educated and most highly cultivated of the Anglo-Saxons. We are also glad to see that his refinements and talents are appreciated by the literary circles of London; for we observed his name among the list of notables at a party given by Mr. Charles Dickens, on the 20th inst. Such treatment will encourage him, while it will at the same time rebuke that spirit of caste, on the other side of the ocean, which excludes from society the man of true merit on account of his color.
