New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1852-02-26

non believing that II would specify De merged %
d.fpo,l.m. or Implanted by the popular rule HIS
n,ophs,v has been fulhlied more amply than be
could have imsgned-iuihilta In oc'n us A'einS
uves.
In ore OF the controversies OF that time, Cooper
hoIe c,,,jrenisbed part. TIE Rtr~ Braannaqus,
20 riedrsI pubisbed m Paris, boldly affirmed the
Cn,srrnert Of The United States ts-oe one OF the
o,, ,xpsr i've in The worlt, and It's people among
the moot heavily ,sIto o, .hn ., nroof sed he
Dter affected TO have establish d the conclusion
thar republic must necessarily be more expensive
IL an monarchy: The partlsaht OF me CouIt ~eIs
darsht,d with the reasoning OF the article ana
clam cd a triumph over our ancient friend. La Fay-
eltt Who curng forty yesrs nad mol ceased 70 hoio
nm he GoyerIu en OF tie United states asthe cheap
81 in the world Al the suggestloD oil LA FAyetLe,
Cronsr 10 tec TO this attack upon his country, In
letter hich vas translated into French and togetn-
or with another from General Bertrand, for many
wear, Yetideht in America, was laid before the peo-
These tao letters provoked a shower OF rejoin-
deYs in which, according 10 Cooper, miss menfs
were mir eled with feuri1sy He commenced Sc
res OF letters on the question In dispute which were
nuhlitbtd IN The National, daily sheet, aud gave
the first evidence OF that extraordinary acutenes ~
controversy, which was 20 less characteristic OF MS
mind than the vigor OF his lmagln alton Inc enc
mics of La Fayette pressed into their service Mr..
Leayltt Harris OF Ne~-Jersey afier~a our Charge
Afd.rts at the Court OF France bot cooper re-
piled to Mr. Harris, in The Edfiond! OF May 1882,
closing discussion III which ne had efectualiy ST.
fenced those who objected 10 institutions on the
,core OF economy. or these letters, which would
form an in poItant chapter in political science, no
entire copy, have been told, is TO be found IN TINS
country. ,
One OF the consequences Of earnest controversy Is
almost inv a iably personal illwil Cooper vas told
by one who held an official station under the French
Government that the part he had taken In this dis
pute concerning taxation would neither be forgot
ten nor forgiven, The dislike he had incurred IN
that quarter was strengthened by his novel OF the
The midst Of his ousrael with the arisocratic party
In that work of which he has himself Justly said,
that it was thoroughly American In all that belonged
to it, his object was 10 show how institutions, pro-
fessedy created to prevent violence and wrong De-
come, when perverted from their natural desrlnar
ton the instruments of injustice, and how In every
system which makes power tne e1c a paopSSly
The work is written with all the vigor and Split OF
his best novels; the magnificent city oil venice, IN
which the scene OF the story Is laid STANDS continu
ally before the imagin alton, ana from time 20 Imo
the gorgeous ceremonies Of the Venetian Republic
pats unceY our eyes, such as the marriage of the
Doee with the Adrlatic, and the contest OF the goa
doas for the prlze of speed The Bravo nimseii anu
several Of the other characters are strongly con-
ceivtd ard distinguished, but the most remafKao'e
Of them all is the spirited and generous heaf'ei
daughter of the jailor.
CcoIer by his failures, that he had no sk IN draw
ing female characters Bv the same process, II
might, suppose, be shown tina; Raphael was bu! an
orc aIy painter. II must be admitted that when
Cooper crew lady Of high breeding, he was apt to
psy too much attention TO the formal part OF her
character, and to make her a mere bundle OF cold
Properties But when be placed his heroiDes in
some situation in life which leaves him nothing TO
60 bat to make them natural and true, know OF
lohDg fHer nothing more ATTRACTIVE or more indl.
ycual than the portrAi;nres he has given us
Figaro the wittiest OF the French periodicals. and
at that time on the liberal side, commended the Bra
10 the jourI ais on the side OF the Government CEN
surtd il. Figaro afterward passed into the hands OF
the aIsiocatc party, and Cooper became the OBJECT
Ia. Not knn nuG m
driven rom any purpose which he had formed either
by fatteIy abuse and both were tried with equal
III In 1882 he published his Heideamaner and
in 1888 his He0dsman Of Berne, both with political
dcssn similar 10 that of the Brapo though neither Of
them takes the same high rank among his works
In 1888, after residence OF seven years I'D olne-
rent paris OF Europe, but mostly in France, cooper
returned to his DaIiye county, The welcome
which ne met on his return was some what chilled
by the effect OF the attacks made upon him In
France, and remembering with what zeal, and at
what sacrifice of the universal acceptance which
his works would otherwise have met he had main
tanned the cause OF his country against the wits and
orators Of the Court party la France, We cannot
woncer that he should have felt this GOODNESS as I'M
deserved. He published shortly after bis arrival in
this county. A Latter to his COuntrynen in which
he complained OF the censures cast upon him i'll the
American newspapers, gave history OF the part he
had taken IN exposing the misstatements OF the Re
rue Brt0nnigne ard warned his couDtTymen ag sinst
the too common error Of resortng, with blind
CefUEce, to foreign authorities, often swaved by
national or political pIeJudlces 10! our opinions OF
amined and repre- the habit OF applying 10 the
Interpretation Of our own Constitution maxims de-
rived from the practice Of other Governments, par
tcularly that Of Great Britain. The importance Of
constituting that instrument by its own principles, he
illustrated by considering several points in dispute
between the parties of the day, on which he gave
very decided opinions.
The principal effect of this pamphlet, Is it seemed
to me, was to awaken in certain quarters kind Of
resentment that successful writer of fiction should
here with the conclusions 10 which he arrived,
though ! must be allowed to say that they were
stated and argued with great ability. In 1895 Coop
or published The Monnikins, satirical work partly
with political aim, and in the same year appeared
his American Democrat, a view OF the civil and So
clal Relations OF the United States, discussing more
gravely various topics touched upon In the former
wo,b, arc EoiIting out in what respects ne deemed
the American people in their practice TO have fallen
thoIt OF tie excellence OF their institutions.
lie fund time, however, for a more genial task,
II OF giving 10 the world his observations on for
een COT; tiies In 1885, appeared his Skftches Of
SH,tzrlcnd series OF letters In four Volumes the
stcoLd pant published about two months after the
frs, delightful UoIk, written in more fluent and
flexible style than his Notions Of the Americans The
first pant OF Gieonngs in Europe, giving an accent
OF his residence in France followed in the same year,
al the second part ofthe same work, containing his
eesel' atoms on England, was published In April,
1857 In thtse works, forming series OF eight vol
Un6s, be re a.es and describes with much the same
ditLttntp as in his novels, and his remarks on the
nal ners and institutions OF the different countries,
often sSgaclous and always peculiarly his own, de-
I'VE from their frequent reference to contemporary
events an historical interest
In 1885 appeared Homepdrd Bound. and Home as
Found, two sa,ITical novels In which Cooper held up
10 Iioicule a certain class OF conductors OF the
Newspaper press IN America. These works had not
the good fortune TO become popular. Cooper did
not ard perhaps, hecause he Was too deeplyn cam
tst, would not infuse into his satircal works that
gaytly without which satne becomes wearisome. l
believe, however, that if they bad been written BY
si!f1cy else, they would have met with more favor,
but he world knew that Cooper was abe 70 give
The N Sc methirg better ard would not be satisfied
WIN anything short OF his best. Some childshly I'm
aen tfat because in tae two works have Jnst
n,bhoIed, newspaper editor is introduced, IN
Nhtse character Almost every possible vice OF his
p'oieHiop is mace TO md place Cooper intended
an lIdIstrims'e attack upon the whole BODY OF
p IrsltuIe a satire only On those 10 whom it