Eminent Americans : comprising brief biographies of leading statesmen, patriots, orators and others, men and women who have made American history . an, in 1806. After a service of six years, he was about to be promoted tolieutenant, when he loved and married Miss Delancey (sister of the lateBishop W. H. Delancey of the diocese of Western New York), and left the navyforever. It was a school in which he was trained for the special service of lit-erature in a peculiar way; and to his nautical information and experience duringthat six years, we are indebted for those charming sea-stories from his
Eminent Americans : comprising brief biographies of leading statesmen, patriots, orators and others, men and women who have made American history . an, in 1806. After a service of six years, he was about to be promoted tolieutenant, when he loved and married Miss Delancey (sister of the lateBishop W. H. Delancey of the diocese of Western New York), and left the navyforever. It was a school in which he was trained for the special service of lit-erature in a peculiar way; and to his nautical information and experience duringthat six years, we are indebted for those charming sea-stories from his pen, whichgave him such great celebrity at home and abroad. Mr. Coopers first production, of any pretensions, was a novel entitled Persecu-tion, a tale of English life. It was published anonymously, met with small suc-cess, and the author was inclined to abandon the pen that had so deceived himwith false hopes. He resolved to try again, and The Spy was the result. Histriumph was now greater than his previous failure. That work was a broadfoundation of a brilliant superstructure, and Fame waited upon the author with JAMES FENIMOEE COOPER. 345. t^ f-^-yte^y^ 0(^^f-^^ abundant laurels. Tn 1823, his Pioneers appeared; and as the series of Leather-Stocking Tales—The Prairie, The Last of the Mohicans, The Pathfinder, and TheDeerslayer—were published, they were read with the greatest eagerness. Hisfame was fully established; and by the publication of his novels in Europe,American literature began to attract attention in quarters where it had beensneered at. His series of admirable sea-stories were equally successful; and asThe Pilot, The Red Rover, The Water Witch, The Two Admirals, and Wing andWing, were issued from the press, they were sought after and read with thegreatest avidity. In 1826, Mr. Cooper went to Europe, preceded by a fame that gave him a keyto the best society there. On all occasions he was the noble and fearless cham-pion of his country and democracy, and his pen
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