Jasper Banner, Volume 2, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 March 1855 — Ruth Hall. [ARTICLE]

Ruth Hall.

Tn in Miami

IVel], wo have rend this last work by Fanny Fern, and the immediate cause which provoked ns to commence the volume was this savage pura- ' graph in that excellent exchange, the llovfrr/i L'/irisHay the edltor 'of winch .quotes,from the National Ma^azhu, whose editor to speaking ■of Fatmy says: •'A m-orc deplorable, exhibition of ■a bad heart in a woman could hanfiy lie given than thukpresented in ‘Ruth' iJaU-i Fdrmyrslastwprk.T" AZ ; “ We agree perfectly,/says foe edis |or of the Advocate,/with brother' ♦Stevens, in his estimate oTtliiis detesr table volume -Ruth Flail—-which ought nqwx to,CnosH the. th-ceshold of fiuy .Christian family.” As said, this murderous onslaught, .after having read so /natty.favorable ijotic-esiol the book, IfldsU* to road the volumie,.tA) see whose Optoi<sk was. to be relied we. now say, with the. feelings aw afeehedJjy of Afte book stjll fresh in our mind, that we must very clearly disagree with <Hjr good friends quoted. We judge of the vmrality of a hook by the kind of emot ions it awakerpMU the soul, if j'Oq-y are.&gZ, »ve the book LaißU’goofo the contrary. Aio.w, how any one can rend ‘Ruth Hall’ and have frid. fcolmgs ese they r with prejudice, or with a heart .previously bad, as more than we can understand; we conclude, therefore, et-limabk} Iffefids -ttUMt hard read the work in haatoto |eel or gef sight of its true -spirit.-t Pe WWWPfid focir objection lies iq tlie foat gbe> makea/a W at r«hgtori. whpn-shp exposes the conduct of some But, if any difference, we like, the -baoM 3 the better for tins; of all man we detest the hypocrite foe most. If there." is one sin that retards the progress, of the gospld J rntfria than ■<another,it js that of hypocrisy— ifthere is-pji&.classof, persons that Itandifa the way and prevent the onward inarch ofiChrtette kingdom more purtteulqriy than another, it is the hypfc these the . Saviour *he •ail ferttmthat exposing them *tal tUeii tdmme fejigion isMoiagiGochi cauce Tgoedner rice. We ’care’hotwho' they are, nor what position tfwy rccupff

ul **' * ‘ ' ' . ♦ they should be iyit4oaked— th,e’izjat& torn front therm, tbit” the wiprlff tnay sp<fs itjmt ‘they' afo? that W'feif M ‘‘Ruth ftjyiy Eposes ■ JHfe’hylpbcrjtep, and we but whi.le sjfe does this, her own tpust in Cod arid faith' in itis word 4,r0 (Jearly We arose from of the work with, good, tDr^j^tfev^tea'feenngk' instead rtf bSing u cafitncd by reading the book. To us, therefore, the vol- ** umldfiSn^tMUifriends represent "ifto be; hence, vie think thqif opin*i(Jns‘; iritis^ r have -beqn htwfilyjWteU ’ Yfire', arepi&ages in thp boofc, we think had as welJ—or bettef—- - hieiiTeft but; but because the work is not in all its parts, tve do pot see why it should be expurgated, for the same rule would extirpate all of human composition. Some works are fiction's under the guibe of truth; but we take it that ‘Ruth Hah’ is truth under the guise of fiction: and if we must have books in this garb, We wish more of them were as harmless, as good, as.this ope.