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Excerpt from Works of J. Fenimore Cooper, Vol. 3 of 10: The Pilot, the Red Rover, the Two Admirals; Illustrated With Wood-Engravings So very discouraging did these ominous opinions get to be, that the writer was, once or twice, tempted to throw his manu script aside and turn to something new. A favorable opinion, however, coming from a very unexpected quarter, put a new face on the matter, and raised new hopes. Among the intimate friends of the writer was an Englishman who possessed most of the peculiar qualities of the edu cated of his country. He was learned even, had a taste that was so just as always to command respect, but was prejudiced, and particularly so in all that related to this country and its literature. He could never be persuaded to admire Bryant's water-fowl, and this mainly because if it were accepted as good poetry it must be placed at once among the finest fugitive pieces of the language. Of the Thanatopsis he thought better, though inclined to suspect it of plagiarism. To the tender mercies of this one-sided critic, who had never affected to compliment the previous works of the author, the sheets of a volume of The Pilot were committed, with scarce an expectation of his liking them. The reverse proved to be the case - he expressed himself highly gratified, Thus encouraged, one more experiment was made, a seaman being selected for the critic. A kinsman, a namesake, and an old messmate of the author, one now in command on a foreign station, was chosen, and a considerable portion of the first volume was read to him. There is no wish to conceal the satisfaction with which the effect on this listener was observed. He treated the whole matter as fact, and his criticisms were strictly professional and perfectly just. But the interest he betrayed could not be mistaken. It gave a perfect and most gratifying assurance that the work would be more likely to find favor with nautical men than with any other class of readers. The Pilot could scarcely be a favorite with females. The story has little inter est for them, nor was it much heeded by the author of the book in the progress of his labors. His aim was to illustrate ves sels and the ocean, rather than to draw any pictures of sentiment and love. In this last respect the book has small claims on the reader's attention, though it is hoped that the story has sufficient interest to relieve the more strictly nautical feat ures of the work. 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.