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per never succeeded in it for a single instant, and even when he has an admiral of this type to write about, he puts into him less of life than Marryat imparts to the most ordinary midshipman. The talk of Cooper's civilian worthies is, as Professor Lounsbury has well said,--in what is perhaps the best biography yet written of any American author,--of a kind not known to human society. This is doubtless aggravated by the frequent use of thee and thou, yet this, which Professor Lounsbury attribProfessor Lounsbury attributes to Cooper's Quaker ancestry, was in truth a part of the formality of the old period, and is found also in Brockden Brown. And as his writings conform to their period in this, so they did in other respects: describing every woman, for instance, as a female, and making her to be such as Cooper himself describes the heroine of Mercedes of Castile to be when he says, Her very nature is made up of religion and female decorum. Scott himself could also draw such inane figures, yet in Jeanie Dea