ABSTRACT
Mr. Simms, made his first, or nearly his first appearance before an American audience with a small volume entitled Martin Faber, an amplification of a much shorter fiction. Martin Faber was succeeded, at short intervals, by a great number and variety of fictions but many of the ordinary novel size. The Wigwam and the Cabin is merely a generic phrase, intended to designate subject matter of a series of short tales, most of which have first seen the light in the Annuals. The original tale, however—the germ of Martin Faber—was written long before the publication of Miserrimus. The difference in the American reception of the two is to be referred to the fact, that Miserrimus was understood to be the work of an Englishman, and Martin Faber was known to be the composition of an American yet unaccredited in the Republic of Letters.
