University of Virginia Library

CAREY, LEA AND BLANCHARD

Have lately published new editions of the following works
by Mr. Cooper:

THE SPY: a Tale of the Neutral Ground.

THE PIONEERS, or the Sources of the Susquchanna: a descriptive
Tale.

THE PILOT: a Tale of the Sea.

LIONEL LINCOLN; or the Leaguer of Boston.

THE LAST OF THE MOHICANS: a Narrative of 1757.

THE PRAIRIE: a Tale.

THE RED ROVER: a Tale.

THE WEPT OF WISH-TON-WISH: a Tale.

THE WATER WITCH: or the Skimmer of the Seas.

THE BRAVO: a Tale.

NOTIONS OF THE AMERICANS: Picked up by a Travelling
Bachelor.

THE HEIDENMAUER; or the Benedictines. A Legend of
the Rhine.

THE HEADSMAN; or the Abbaye des Vignerons: a Tale.

THE MONIKINS: Edited by the Author of “The Spy.”

PRECAUTION: a Novel, revised and corrected.

SKETCHES OF SWITZERLAND. By J. Fennimore Cooper,
Author of “The Spy,” &c. &c. in 2 vols. 12mo.

A RESIDENCE IN FRANCE, with an Excursion up the Rhine,
and a Second Visit to Switzerland. By the same Author. In
2 vols 12mo.

“As we take up the pen to note down our impressions of these
volumes, we feel as though we had just returned from an excursion
in Switzerland, with a companion full to overflowing with an intense
love of nature, and an exquisite taste for the picturesque.
We cannot give our thanks and praise a more cordial emphasis—
but if we could, we would; for so much pleasure are we indebted
to Mr. Cooper. After the dull flats and dreary wastes of reading,
of which there is abundance in all seasons, how “refreshing” (the
word is unavoidable) to ascend with such a guide into the mountainous
regions of literature. To those who are at all acquainted
with the bold and vivid style of Mr. Cooper's descriptions of natural
marvels and magnificence—and to whom are his original powers
of imagery and expression unknown?—we need only say, that
these powers have been unsparingly employed in the present volumes.
It is only necessary to remind the reader of what Mr.
Cooper can do, when his enthusiasm is kindled, to bid him recollect
that the scene of the author's excursions is Switzerland. Upon
such a subject as the scenery of Switzerland, how could Mr. Cooper
tail to write with infinite freshness, grace, energy, and poetic ardour.
Many of the letters moreover (for the work is in that form)
have the advantage of being written under the immediate feelings
excited by a first, unfading view of the beauties and wonders described.
In short, this is just the work for every body to read and
every body to relish.

Mr. Cooper has attempted, in these letters, little beyond descriptions
of external nature. Switzerland, as he remarks, enjoying
probably the sublimest as well as the most diversified beauties of
this sort that exist on the globe, would seem to have a claim to be
treated sui generis. Man, says the writer, appears almost to sink
to a secondary rank in such a country. We feel all the force of
this remark, and are quite content that Mr. Cooper should have
confined the range of his genius to the higher ground. He has
found room and reward there, much as it had been described before.”
—Court Journal,