...If one may judge of the advance notices that have appeared in the Southern press concerning Thomas Dixon, Jr.'s, novel "The Leopard's Spots: A Romance of the White Man's Burden," the South has at last found an interpreter in fiction who will be to it what the writer of "Uncle Tom's Cabin" was to the North before the civil war. The novel in question is a tale of the South since the war; it treats of the negro question from the Southerner's point of view, and the events are said to be portrayed with absolute historical accuracy—just as the events in Mrs. Stowe's famous story were said to be portrayed. Of course controversy is inevitable and whether the book will be as successful from a moral point of view as was "Uncle Tom's Cabin" is open to question. It can hardly fail, however, to give Northerners some idea of the state of resentment that met Mrs. Stowe's story in the South before the war.