[28] How much this book has been neglected may be inferred from the fact that Lounsbury gives it but two paragraphs: Erskine cuts these down to one, and others are content with one condemnatory sentence.
[29] Lounsbury, T. R. op. cit., p. 49.
[30] Van Doren, op. cit., p. 32.
[31] Southern Literary Messenger, 1838:375, speaks of Lionel Lincoln’s popularity as unprecedented. “It was this production that created in Boston and throughout New England, a popularity for Mr. Cooper’s works, at one period so great, as to become among novel readers, almost a mania.” Cf. U. S. Literary Gazette I:340; North American Review 23:154.
[32] Introduction to The Last of the Mohicans, p. xviii. How seriously the subject took hold of Cooper his daughter elsewhere records: In her childhood there was nearly always an Indian book on her father’s table.
[33] North American Review, 26:373.
[34] Preface to The Deerslayer.
[35] See Appendix C.
[36] Last of the Mohicans, Riverside ed., p. 133.
[37] The Nation, 112:255.