“The Spy” met with a large sale both in America and in England. It was soon translated into most of the cultivated languages of Europe; and its popularity has never greatly waned. It is a story of the American Revolution, in which the patriotic hero, Harvey Birch, signally aids the American cause and exhibits a rare combination of the spy and the gentleman. During the twenty-nine years remaining to Cooper, he produced thirty-two further volumes, chiefly romances. Of these, many are now rarely read, but the following have retained their popularity for successive generations: “The Spy,” already referred to. “The Leatherstocking Tales,” comprising (in the chronological order not of their production, but of the narrative): “The Deerslayer, or The First War Path,” 1841. “The Last of the Mohicans, a Narrative of 1757,” 1826. “The Pathfinder, or The Inland Sea,” 1840. “The Pioneers,” 1823, and “The Prairie,” 1827; and ten volumes of the “Sea Tales”: “The Pilot,” 1823. “The Red Rover,” 1828. “The Two Admirals,” 1842. “Homeward Bound, or The Chase,” 1838. “The Water-Witch, or The Skimmer of the Seas,” 1830. “The Wing-and-Wing, or Le Feu-Follet,” 1842. “Afloat and Ashore,” 1844. “Miles Wallingford,” 1844, published in England as “Lucy Hardinge.” A sequel to “Afloat and Ashore.” “Jack Tier, or The Florida Reefs,” 1848. “The Sea Lions, or The Lost Sealers,” 1849. The popularity which Cooper achieved, and which reached its height with the publication of “The Last of the Mohicans,” was most remarkable; no other American has ever enjoyed anything like it. Not only were his stories read in well-nigh every household, but they were promptly dramatised, and furnished subjects for numerous paintings and poetical effusions. In Europe, his fame fairly rivalled that of Scott. In 1833, Samuel F. B. Morse, the inventor of the electric telegraph, wrote: “In every city of Europe that I visited the works of Cooper were conspicuously placed in the windows of every bookshop. They are published, as soon as he produces them, in thirty-four different places in Europe. They have been seen by American travellers in the languages of Turkey and Persia, in Constantinople, in Egypt, at Jerusalem, at Ispahan.” In 1822 Cooper removed with his family to New York, in order to be near his publisher and to put his daughters into school. There he founded a club, commonly known as the Bread and Cheese, to which many of the noted men of the time belonged. The years 1826-33 he spent in Europe, being for a part of this time United States consul at Lyons. On his return, he lived a few winters in New York; he then took up his permanent residence at Otsego Hall, Cooperstown, where he died in September, 1851.