Excerpt from German American Annals, Continuation of the Quarterly Americana Germanica, Vol. 12: A Bi-Monthly Devoted to the Comparative Study of the Historical, Literary, Linguistic, Educational and Commercial Relations of Germany and America; January and February, 1914 The works of an author so intensely American by tempera ment could not have been so widely read by the peoples of Europe without also affecting their subsequent literature. In no country was Cooper's in uence more vital than in Germany. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."