Great men and famous women : a series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in history Volume 7 . c intelligence, equally remote from compilation and disquisition. In exe-cution they are almost faultless; the narrative is easy, the style pellucid, and thewriters judgment nearly always in accordance with the general verdict of will not, therefore, be easily superseded, and indeed Irvings productionsare in general impressed with that signet of classical finish which guarantees thepermanency of literary work more surely than direct
Great men and famous women : a series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in history Volume 7 . c intelligence, equally remote from compilation and disquisition. In exe-cution they are almost faultless; the narrative is easy, the style pellucid, and thewriters judgment nearly always in accordance with the general verdict of will not, therefore, be easily superseded, and indeed Irvings productionsare in general impressed with that signet of classical finish which guarantees thepermanency of literary work more surely than direct utility or even intellectualpower. This refinement is the more admirable for being in great part the reflec-tion of his own moral nature. Without ostentation or affectation, he was exqui-site in all things, a mirror of loyalty, courtesy, and good taste in all his literaryconnections, and exemplary in all the relations of domestic life which he wascalled upon to assume. He never married, remaining true to the memory of anearly attachment blighted by death. 144 ARTISTS AND AUTHORS JAMES FENIMORE COOPER* By President Charles F. Thwing (1789-1851). r N the churchyard of Christs Church, in thetown bearing his name, in the State of NewYork, rests all that is mortal of James Feni-more Cooper. It is now more than two scoreof years since he died. The spot is marked bya simple slab of marble. In the public ceme-tery of Cooperstown stands a noble monumentto Leather Stocking. It is crowned with afigure of this immortal character. The person-ality of Cooper himself must, like the humanbody, gradually fade away ; but certain person-alities which he brought into literature are last-ing. Cooper the man dies ; Cooper the novel-ist lives. Cooper the man and Cooper the author aresingularly united and yet singularly boyhood was spent in scenes which figurein his novels, and certain of the novels seem incertain respects to be only the projection of early experiences through which hepas
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