This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1922 edition. Excerpt: ... fourth of a series of sketches of "Living Literary Characters" to Cooper.18 The writer considered Cooper especially fortunate in that Scott had popularized the novel, and that America furnished the best of subjects. He continued: No writer of the times has taken a wider range in his view of human nature, or ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1922 edition. Excerpt: ... fourth of a series of sketches of "Living Literary Characters" to Cooper.18 The writer considered Cooper especially fortunate in that Scott had popularized the novel, and that America furnished the best of subjects. He continued: No writer of the times has taken a wider range in his view of human nature, or looked more deeply into the heart. Few know better how to seize the strongest point of interest, and no one can work it out more judiciously. If his plots fail in carrying you irresistibly along "on the wings of the wind," his skill in the delineation of character is sure to work its charm and fascination about you... We never met with novels--(and we have read all that were ever written since the creation of the world, )--of a more absorbing character, or more fatal to the female propensity of skipping the digressive portions. Every word of Mr. Cooper's narratives is effective or appears so while you read--and yet he does not scruple to describe an object, in the most elaborate and uncompromising terms, three or four times over in the same work, if it be necessary that the reader should have an accurate outline of it before his eyes. There is a profusion, but no waste of words, in his style, which is, "without o'er-flowing, full." It is clear, varied and distinct.. All is action, character, and poetry. You see, in the images, which he conjures up, every accessory of the scenes, however insignificant.... His characters are of all classes, and if not equally well-drawn, impress us, at the first glance, with a conviction that they are drawn by an acute observer of life. His characters.. are all picturesque persons, and have some mark and likelihood about them.... There is scarcely one character of any rank or importance that does not present...
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