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In newly stereotyping this Edition, extraordinary pains have been taken to produce a most perfect specimen of typography, and the most scrupulous care has been observed in the reproduction of the text, which has the Author's latest additions and corrections, besides his new Introductions, Notes, &c. **The Works of COOPER, while their illustrious author was alive, were acknowledged, in other countries, to be the finest examples of American genius. and the noblest as well as the truest exhibitions of American intellect and feeling. At home, personal and partisan influences prevented the universal recognition of their extraordinary and peculiar merits. But all prejudices and asperities being buried in the grave, the people have dispassionately examined the claims of "our great national novelist," and their applause is awarded in acclamations. Never, in the proudest day of his life, was he so popular. Not a month has passed since the close of his splendid career, in which the general demand for his writings has not increased; and now, through all the Union it is as well understood that the works of Cooper should constitute a portion of the Family Library, as in Spain, that every reader should possess Cervantes; or in Germany, that Goethe, or in England, that Shakspeare, should be familiar in every cultivated household. Although much of this popularity is undoubtedly owing to their decided and intelligent nationality; yet, perhaps as much results from the just conviction that no other author, so eminent in his department, has ever before been so uniformly pure in morals and elevated in sentiment. No other body of romance, in any language, is so healthful and invigorating. This collection comprises 1. THE SPY, 2. THE DEERSLAYER, 3. LAST OF THE MOнI CANS, 4. THE PATHFINDER, 7. THE PILOT, 8. LIONEL LINCOLN, 11. THE WATER-WITCH, 14. HOMEWARD BOUND, N. B. This Edition will only be furnished in uniform Complete Sets; in no case will the Sets be broken. The above twenty volumes, comprising the FINE EDITION OF COOPER'S CHOICE WORKS, are bound with great care, in a superior manner, after patterns of elegance and neatness, in the following popular and attractive styles: |