Indiana University Studies 



BLOOMINGTON, INDIANA 



No. 21 



May 15, 1914 



Prefatory Note 



The manner of their reception and the subsequent influence in 

 Europe of the works of James Fenimore Cooper, the first American 

 man of letters to gain general recognition beyond the Atlantic, 

 must be of some interest to the student of American literature. 

 In no country was Cooper's influence more vital than in Germany. 

 The study here presented takes up Cooper in his relations to that 

 country. It is hoped that it may be not entirely without value 

 as a contribution to the history of German American cultural rela- 

 tions. This study appeared first in the German American Aunals 

 (a continuation of the (juarterly Americeina Germanica) , Jan.- 

 Feb., 1914. The Editor, Professor Marion D. Learned, of the 

 University of Pennsylvania, has very kindly consented to this re- 

 publication. 



PRESTON A. BARBA, Ph.D. 



Instructor in German. 



Indiana University, 

 Feb. 21, 1914. 



