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We have here a model biography. We venture to believe that the accuracy of its statements will not be challenged, its absolute impartiality will not be questioned, the sense of literary proportion in the use of material will be appreciated by all who are capable of judging, the critical acumen will be intensely relished, and to the mass of readers who care little for facts, or impartiality, or literary form, or criticism, the story of the life will have something of the fascination of one of the author’s own romances. For the book is charmingly written, with a felicity and vigor of diction that are notable, and with a humor sparkling, racy, and never obtrusive. — New York Tribune.

Prof. Lounsbury’s book is an admirable specimen of literary biography. … We can recall no recent addition to American biography in any department which is superior to it. It gives the reader not merely a full account of Cooper’s literary career, but there is mingled with this a sufficient account of the man himself apart from his books, and of the period in which he lived, to keep alive the interest from the first word to the last. — New York Evening Post.

Those who are not familiar with Prof. Lounsbury as an author will be surprised to find how well he writes. His style is admirable, — clear, pure, animated, and especially marked by the quality known best to the general reader as readable. He tells the story of Cooper’s life with an interest that never flags, and he invests it with an attraction that few would have supposed it to possess.— Boston Gazette.

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