Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 312
e unknown author, sincehe was a lawyer, and this showed a knowledgeof the ocean such as no landsman could have.Cooper, who had followed the sea himself, JAMES FENIMORE COOPER. 875 lished the Pilot, the first salt-water novel everwritten, and to this day one of the very best.Its nameless and… … -v. ^ :-. . ~^ . l~^«^-. «s?. i-JisaSSSSs^ffiKL-iV - < s.- OTSEGO HALL, THE HOME OF JAMES FENIMORE COOPER. maintained that the Pirate showed that itsauthor was not a sailor, since far greater effectscould have been got out of the same materialsif the writer had been a seafarer by profession.To…
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