touches lies the charm of this fascinating
little volume of legends, which deserves to be placed on a level with
_Reincke Fuchs for_ its quaint humor, without reference to the
ethnological interest possessed by these stories, as indicating,
perhaps, a common origin for very widely severed races."--_London
Spectator._

"We are just discovering what admirable literary material there is at
home, what a great mine there is to explore, and how quaint and
peculiar is the material which can be dug up. Mr. Harris's book may be
looked on in a double light--either as a pleasant volume recounting the
stories told by a typical old colored man to a child, or as a valuable
contribution to our somewhat meager folk-lore.... To Northern readers
the story of Brer (Brother--Brudder) Rabbit may be novel. To those
familiar with plantation life, who have listened to these quaint old
stories, who have still tender reminiscences of some good old mauma who
told these wondrous adventures to them when they were children, Brer
Rabbit, the Tar Baby, and Brer Fox come back again with all the past
pleasures of younger days."--_New York Times._

"Uncle Remus's sayings on current happenings are very shrewd and
bright, and the plantation and revival songs are choice specimens of
their sort."--_Boston Journal._

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"The interest of 'Wotton Reinfred' to me is considerable, from the
sketches which it contains of particular men and women, most of whom I
knew and could, if necessary, identify. The story, too, is taken
generally from real life, and perhaps Carlyle did not finish it, from
the sense that it could not be published while the persons and things
could be recognized. That objection to the publication no longer
exists. Everybody is dead whose likenesses have been drawn, and the
incidents stated have long been forgotten."--James Anthony Froude.

"'Wotton Reinfred' is interesting as a historical document. It gives
Carlyle before he had adopted his peculiar manner, and yet there are
some characteristic bits--especially at the beginning--in the Sartor
Resartus vein. I take it that these are reminiscences of Irving and of