Leatherstocking Tales
He attained a measure of commercial success with adaptations of novels in English, including novels by James Fenimore Cooper ("The Deerslayer" and two collections of adapted "Leatherstocking Tales"), Robert Montgomery Bird ("Nick of the Woods"), and Daniel Defoe ("Robinson Crusoe"). His version of Charles Sealsfield's "Tokeah, or the White Rose" was only one of many German versions of the late 1890s.