[ELIZABETH FENIMORE COOPER IN THE OLD HALL HOME.] By the courtesy of Elizabeth Cooper Keese

[COOPER'S ANGEVINE FARM HOME.] From "Homes of American Authors." G.L. Putnam Sons, 1853

[MAMARONECK CREEK SLOOPS.] From Bryant's "History of the United States"

[JUDGE JOHN JAY.] From print of Trumbull portrait

[BEDFORD HOUSE.] From an old print

[BEDFORD HOUSE LIBRARY.] From Vol. II, Lamb's "History of New York City"

[HARVEY BIRCH'S CAVE.] By courtesy of Arthur B. Maurice, author of "New York in Fiction"

[THE LOCUSTS OF COOPER'S TIME.] From Lossing's "Field-Book of the War of 1812"

[THE LOCUSTS OF TO-DAY.] By courtesy of the owner, Lawrence Durham, Esq.

[TITLE-PAGE OF THE FIRST EDITION OF "THE SPY."]