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Precarious financial condition. Regret at not being able to make loan. False impression of great wealth. Fears he may have to sell home. F.O.J. Smith continues to give trouble. Morse system extending throughout the world. Death of Fenimore Cooper. Subscriptions to charities, etc. First use of word "Telegram." Mysterious fire in Supreme Court clerk's room. Letter of Commodore Perry.
The Leather Stocking Series was in the strictest sense an original performance the significance of Fenimore Cooper is not likely to be exaggerated; it is quite independent of the question of his present hold upon mature readers, his faults of technique and the truth of his pictures.
It means grasshopper soup, the favorite dish of the Digger tribe, and of the Pi-utes as well. It isn't worth while, in these practical times, for people to talk about Indian poetry there never was any in them except in the Fenimore Cooper Indians. But they are an extinct tribe that never existed. I know the Noble Red Man.
Above all, he loved the red-brown Indians themselves. Full well he knew what trials awaited him. If the reader has formed his conception of the Indians from Fenimore Cooper's novels, he will probably think that Zeisberger spent his life among a race of gallant heroes. The reality was rather different. For the most part the Indians of North America were the reverse of heroic.
These and a thousand other kindred reflections, relating also to my own circumstances, crowd upon me at the moment of again entering this famous city." Takes rooms with Horatio Greenough. Political talk with Lafayette. Riots in Paris. Letters from Greenough. Bunker Hill Monument. Letters from Fenimore Cooper. Cooper's portrait by Verboeckhoven. European criticisms. Reminiscences of R.W. Habersham.
It never occurred to him that there might possibly be a vast difference between what the Lord actually said and what James Fenimore Cooper thought the Lord said. It is hardly necessary to add, however, that this characteristic of mind has its advantages as well as disadvantages.
This opinion, publicly expressed, infuriated James Fenimore Cooper, Morse's friend, and Cooper wrote an attack on Adams in the New York Evening Post, but without signing it. Supposing Morse to be the author of this article, Adams summarily struck his name from the list of artists who were to be employed.
The life of Oglethorpe reads like a novel by James Fenimore Cooper. He was of aristocratic birth, born of an Irish mother, with a small bar sinister on his scutcheon that pushed him out and set him apart. He was a graduate of Oxford, and it was on a visit to his Alma Mater that he heard some sarcastic remarks flung off about the Wesleys that seemed to commend them.
She and Claybrook sat down in the back seat together, while Joe took the wheel. In about thirty minutes they were climbing a steep hill that lead out of Fenimore Park to one of the back lanes. "Takes the grade all right," commented Claybrook to her, and she wished that he would not continue to include her in the discussion.
Professional novelists like Balzac, professional critics like Sainte-Beuve, stand amazed at Fenimore Cooper's skill and power. The true engineering and architectural lines are there. They were not painfully plotted beforehand, like George Eliot's. Cooper took, like Scott, "the easiest path across country," just as a bee-hunter seems to take the easiest path through the woods.
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