Portraits and biographical sketches of twenty American authors . eturn madehis home at Cooperstown, where he continued to live untilhis death September 14, 1851. His foreign life had not weakened his patriotic feeling,but it had given him opportunities for comparison betweenEuropean and American modes of thought and manners oflife. He was outspoken in his criticism, and succeeded inoffending both his own countrymen and foreigners; butthough he excited much bitterness of s])eech, he held everyone captive by his large-featured stories of the sea. thewoods, and the prairie. He fell into controver
Portraits and biographical sketches of twenty American authors . eturn madehis home at Cooperstown, where he continued to live untilhis death September 14, 1851. His foreign life had not weakened his patriotic feeling,but it had given him opportunities for comparison betweenEuropean and American modes of thought and manners oflife. He was outspoken in his criticism, and succeeded inoffending both his own countrymen and foreigners; butthough he excited much bitterness of s])eech, he held everyone captive by his large-featured stories of the sea. thewoods, and the prairie. He fell into controversies with histownsmen, and he was engaged in many libel suits, but hewas personally a man who excited warm affection. Hisstrong inhibition of any authoritative biography has kepthis family from jjroducing such a work ; but his daughter,Susan Fenimore Cooper, has supplied, in the form of intro-ductions to his novels, many incidents connected with hisliterary and domestic life. The most complete biographicstudy is that already referred to by Professor J\yil/a/i^ o^^^ RALPH WALDO EMERSON. The readers of Mr. Cabots A Memoir qfJRaljj/i WaldoEmerson must have been striK^k by the absence of incidentin Mr. Emersons life, and by the fact that the interest, asidefrom the new contributions to thought, rests in what may becalled the spiritual biograpliy of the man. The externalfacts of his life are quickly recited. He was born in Bos-ton, May 25, 1803; lost his father wlien he was eight yearsold, was fitted for college at the Boston Latin School, en-tered Harvard College, and graduated in 1821. During hiscollege course he tauglit school in vacation, like other stu-dents with narrow means, and after graduation turned toschool-keeping as the readiest means of support. After aninterval of four years he entered the Divinity School inCambridge, and on March 11, 1829. was ordained as col-league to the Rev Henry Ware, Jr, an eminent minister of theUnitarian denomination in Boston, who
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