=Cooper, James Fenimore.= _N. J._, 1789-1851. The first American writer to gain general European recognition, and the first native novelist who won a national reputation. Although much that he wrote is nearly forgotten, the best of his work survives and is still popular. His first novel, Precaution, a conventional, mediocre piece of writing, appeared in 1820, and was followed, in 1821, by The Spy, the most famous of all his books, having been translated into all the principal languages of Europe. Almost as famous is The Last of the Mohicans, a much greater work. Among his tales of the sea, The Pilot and The Red Rover are the best, as the five Leather Stocking tales--The Deerslayer, The Last of the Mohicans, The Pathfinder, The Pioneers, The Prairie,--are the best of his stories of Indian life. His other fictions include The Bravo; Lionel Lincoln, or The Leaguer of Boston; The Water-Witch; The Two Admirals; The Wept of Wish-ton-Wish; The Heidenmauer; The Headsman; Homeward Bound; Home as Found; The Monikins, the weakest of all his works; Mercedes of Castile; Wing-and-Wing; Wyandotté; Afloat and Ashore; Satanstoe; The Chainbearer; The Red Skins; Jack Tier; The Crater; The Oak Openings; The Sea Lions; The Ways of the Hour; Miles Wallingford. He wrote, also, History of the United States Navy; Sketches of Switzerland; Gleanings in Europe; Notions of the Americans. _See Lowell’s Fable for Critics; Bryant’s Memorial Discourse, 1852; Coffin’s Home of Cooper, 1872; Life, by Lounsbury, 1882; Bryant and his Friends, 1886; Richardson’s American Literature; The Bookman, March, 1897._ _Ap. Hou. Put._ =Cooper, Myles.= _E._, 1735-1785. An Episcopal clergyman who came to America in 1762, and was president of King’s (now Columbia) College, 1763-1775. Being an ardent loyalist, he was obliged to leave the colony, and returned to England. Friendly Advice to all Reasonable Americans on our Political Confusions; Poems on Several Occasions; Address to the Episcopalians of Virginia; The American Querist. =Cooper, Peter.= _N. Y._, 1791-1883. A famous philanthropist of New York city who founded the Cooper Institute. Ideas for a System of Good Government; Financial Opinions, with Autobiography. =Cooper, Susan Fenimore.= _N. Y._, 1813-1894. Daughter of J. F. Cooper, _supra_. A writer of rural sketches, whose life was passed at Cooperstown, New York. Rural Hours; Country Rambles; Rhyme and Reason; Country Life; The Shield, a Narrative; Mount Vernon and the Children of America. _Hou._ =Cooper, Thomas.= _E._, 1759-1840. A noted scientist who came to America in 1795 with Dr. Priestley, _infra_, and was president of the College of South Carolina, 1820-34. Letters on the Slave Trade; Tracts Ethical, Theological, and Political; Information concerning America; The Bankrupt Law of America compared with that of England; Tracts on Medical Jurisprudence; Elements of Political Economy; An English Version of the Institutes of Justinian.