A Descriptiv List of Novels And Tales Dealing With History of North America
The book A Descriptiv List of Novels And Tales Dealing With History of North America was written by author Griswold W. M. (William Maccrillis) B.1853 Here you can read free online of A Descriptiv List of Novels And Tales Dealing With History of North America book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is A Descriptiv List of Novels And Tales Dealing With History of North America a good or bad book?
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Dr. Bird has at length planted his foot on the real soil of romance—' the dark and bloody ground ' of Kentucky, the little district where the first children of what is now a great state wer literally cradled in fire— doing, daring, and suffering more than did ever band of colonists upon any shore. . . The present wild tale is, in all its scenes and characters, thoroly and completely American. The horrors and extravagancies it commemorates wil be viewed with emotion akin to disgust by some criti...cks [sic] who, ignorant of the singular fidelity of the descriptions, wil regard them as a prurient catering for the morbid taste of the day. To others, however, they wil breathe the very spirit of historical truth." [N. Y. Mirror. HISTORY OF NORTH AMERICA. SAME, ed. W: H. Ainsworth, 1843. " Cooper's redmen, with their apocryphal virtues, ar a class by them- selvs. Dr. Bird disputes all the good qualities with which Cooper has in- vested these savages. In the Last of the 2,5. :j -^Mohicans— the most vigorous portion of that series of volumes which biograph- ize the hunter of the wood in tthe various stages of life— Cooper has endowed these scalping wanderers with the noblest at- .
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