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SKETCHES. of
more useful enjoyment, than to be transported from our
quiet home, as if by a magician’s wand, to foreign coun-
tries, and to make the acquaintance of new characters, and
a new state of things, and to learn from therm, at any
rate, what is going on in the world.
For although Sweden’s noble and amiable poet, Franzén,
did characterize the romance as “an occurrence which
has never occurred,” still we venture to assert that every
thing which the trwe romance describes, has really hap-
pened and happens every day, if not exactly in the same
way as told in the romance, yet in an analogous manner,
and that no romance is so romantic as is frequently
actual life.
We would wish that every young man and every young
girl would understand their life in its truly romantic signifi-
cation, and that they would at an early age think of writ-
ing their autobiography. The romance in it would be
more than a little love-story.
But if it is a love-story on a grand scale, so much the
better.
The genuine romance is such a biography.
But let us return to the mission of the romance — to
bring near each other far distant people and countries by a
delineation of their inner life.
The American people have been glad to become ac-
quainted with Sweden and its home-life through Swedish
novels. Swedish readers who,’ through “Uncle Tom,”
have been introduced to North American houses, natural
scenery, and social conditions, will no doubt with increasing
interest renew the acquaintance with America through
American novels and sketches. They who, with a beat-
ing heart, have followed “Uncle Tom” through his
checkered life, will willingly follow her who has described
the same in her sketches of characters and scenes amongst
the descendants of the Pilgrims, given in the “ May-
flower,” the first full-blown flower of her talent as an
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