"Bravo, The," 108-111, 115, 128, 130, 277, 291. Bread and Cheese Club, founded by Cooper, 63; its members, 63; gives dinner to Cooper, 127. Brenton's, Captain Edward Pelham, "Naval History of Great Britain," 202. British press, Cooper's opinion of, 106, 136, 137; its attacks upon Cooper, 138, 173-176, 199, 236. "Brother Jonathan, The," newspaper, 262, 294, 295. Brown, Charles Brockden, 30. Bryant, William Cullen, 17, 63, 80, 266; delivers funeral oration on Cooper, 268. Bulwer, Sir Edward Lytton, 124, 125. Burges, Tristam, 213, 221, 224, 226, 233, 295. Burlington, N. J., 2, 12. Burton's Theatre, Cooper's comedy acted at, 263. Campbell, Judge William W., 216. Canning, George, 68. "Captain Spike" (English title), 297. Carey and Lea, publishers, 66. "Chainbearer, The," 252-254, 297. Chalet, The, Cooper's farm, near Cooperstown, 263. Champlain, Lake, 12. Chauncey, Commodore Isaac, 127. Chesapeake, American man-of-war, 202. "Chronicles of Cooperstown, The," 293. Clay, Henry, 67. Clinton, DeWitt, 127. "Coelebs," Hannah More's, 21. Colburn, London publisher, 28, 94. "Comparative Resources of the American Navy," 292. Constitution, ship-of-war, 210, 298. Cooper, Fenimore, 15, 63. Cooper, J. F.: born at Burlington, 2; removed to Cooperstown, 2; early education, 6; at Albany, 6; at Yale College, 7; dismissed from college, 8; serves before the mast, 9, 10; enters navy as midshipman, 11; his service, 11; marries, 12; resigns position in the navy, 14; residences from 1811 to 1822, 14, 15; his children, 15; begins literary life, 16; moves into New York city, 63; founds the Bread and Cheese club, 63; has family name changed to Fenimore-Cooper, 3; is given a public dinner, 127; sails for Europe, 67; made consul at Lyons, 67; residences in France, England, Switzerland, Italy, and Germany, 67, 68; cordial reception in Paris, 68, 69; wide extent of his reputation, 56-58, 77; returns to America, 117; refuses a public dinner, 128; resides in New York city, 117; buys his father's house in Cooperstown and makes it his permanent home, 117; has a controversy with citizens of Cooperstown, 142-148; brings a number of newspaper libel suits, 180-197; engages unsuccessfully in business operations, 261; his farm, 263, 264; becomes a communicant in the Episcopal Church, 266; his death, 267; funeral oration over, delivered by Bryant, 268; happiness of his home life, 13, 14, 233, 234, 285; wide circulation of his works, 37, 56, 76, 270; pecuniary profits from their sale, 64-66, 261-263; his success as a lawyer, 182, 189, 216-218, 220; his sensitiveness to criticism, 41-44, 286; defects of his literary art, 50, 51; failure in characterization, 152, 155, 277, 278; female characters, 26-28, 153, 154, 278-281; success in characters from low life, 53-55, 72, 73, 152, 283; fondness for commonplace, 84, 242, 276;