This cheaply illustrated and printed book is a good example of how much borrowing went on among many of the publishers who brought out versions of Uncle Tom's Cabin in the decades after the copyright lapsed. Although the only author credited is Stowe herself, the text below was almost certainly derived (without acknowledgment) from the adaptation "by Mary E. Blaine" published by Barse and Hopkins in their PLEASANT HOUR SERIES children's book, which earlier (also without acknowledgment) had been derived from an adaption by Henrietta Elizabeth Marshall's c.1904 TOLD TO THE CHILDREN EDITION. In addition, Matlack and Graham re-used the dozen black-and-white illustrations from this edition in their PICTURE BOOK version of the novel, intended for younger readers.

  This adaptation of Stowe's novel is severely abridged, and much is left out, but nonetheless the text includes much of the book's "minstrel" material -- i.e. the scenes with Chloe and her "poetry," Dinah in the kitchen and Topsy misbehaving.

Uncle Tom's Cabin: Little Folks' Edition,
by Harriet Beecher Stowe     [Illustrated]
(New York: Graham & Matlack, n.d. [c. 1910]).