Precaution: A Novel, Volumes 1-2Stringer and Townsend, 1852 |
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Page 4 - Leatherstocking is first introduced — a philosopher of the woods, ignorant of books, but instructed in all that nature, without the aid of science, could reveal to the man of quick senses and inquiring intellect, whose life has been passed under the open sky, and in companionship with a race whose animal perceptions are the acutest and most cultivated of which there is any example. But Leatherstocking has higher qualities ; in him there is a genial blending of the gentlest virtues of the civilized...
Page 6 - United States was brought out in two octavo volumes at Philadelphia, by Carey & Lea. In writing his stories of the sea, his attention had been much turned to this subject, and his mind filled with striking incidents from expeditions and battles in which our naval commanders had been engaged. This made his task the lighter, but he gathered his materials with great industry and with a conscientious attention to exactness, for he was not a man to take a fact for granted or allow imagination to usurp...
Page 12 - It is for this class that public libraries are obliged to provide themselves with an extraordinary number of copies of his works : the number in the Mercantile Library in this city, I am told, is forty. Hence it is that he has earned a fame wider, I think, than any author of modern times — wider, certainly, than any author of any age ever enjoyed in his lifetime. All his excellences are translatable — they pass readily into languages the least allied in their genius to that in which he wrote,...
Page 10 - Figaro, the wittiest of the French periodicals, and at that time on the liberal side, commended the Bravo; the journals on the side of the government censured it. Figaro afterward passed into the hands of the aristocratic party, and Cooper became the object of its attacks. He was not, however, a man to be driven from any purpose which he had formed, either by flattery or abuse, and both were tried with equal ill success. In 1832 he published his Heidenmauer, and in 1833 his Headsman of Berne, both...
Page 7 - Americans, but this I will say, that whether he commended or censured, he did it in the sincerity of his heart as a true American, and in the belief that it would do good. His Notions of the Americans...
Page 1 - Wilkes, of this city, in whose literary opinions he had great confidence. Mr. Wilkes advised that it should be published, and to these circumstances we owe it that Cooper became an author. I confess I have merely dipped into this work. The experiment was made with the first edition, deformed by a strange punctuation — a profusion of commas, and other pauses, which puzzled and repelled me. Its author, many years afterward, revised and republished it, correcting this fault, and some faults of style...
Page 2 - ... mouth of our harbor, the vibration made in the water passes gradually on till it strikes the icy barriers of the deep at the south pole. The spread of Cooper's reputation is not confined within narrower limits. The Spy is read in all the written dialects of Europe, and in some of those of Asia. The French, immediately after its first appearance, gave it to the multitudes who read their far-diffused language, and placed it among the first works of its class. It was rendered into Castilian, and...
Page 1 - Precaution." Concerning the occasion of writing this work, it is related that once, as he was reading an English novel to Mrs. Cooper, who has, within a short time past, been laid in the grave beside her illustrious husband, and of whom we may now say that her goodness was no less eminent than his genius, he suddenly laid down the book, and said : " I believe I could write a better myself.
Page 4 - ... during the Christmas holidays, in which the Indian marksman vied for the prize of skill with the white man ; swift sleigh-rides under the bright winter sun, and perilous encounters with wild animals in the forests ; these, and other scenes of rural life, drawn, as Cooper knew how to draw them, in the bright and healthful coloring of which he was master, are interwoven with a regular narrative of human fortunes, not unskilfully constructed ; and how could such a work be otherwise than popular...