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wonderful huntsman among the Indians in the West, a sort of 

 youthfid Leatherstocking. In the same novel, Daniel, the negro, 

 receives the name of "Spiirer" from the Indians for his skill in 

 taking up trails, an epithet which suggests the English "Path- 

 finder. ' ' 



In Strubberg's 'Alte und neue Heimat' (1859) is a passage 

 which bears testimony to Cooper's popularity in Germany and 

 his influence upon certain of his readers. The author describes 

 the arrival of German emigrants in Galveston, Texas: "Man er- 

 blickte purpurfarbene und rothe, mit Schniiren reich besetzte 

 Paletots, spanische Uberwiirfe mit aufgeschlitzten, weiten Ar- 

 meln, italienische Anziige nach Rinaldo Rinaldini und Masaniello, 

 Lederanzilge nach Natti aus Cooper's Letzten der Moliikaner, 

 Strumpfmiitzen, mittelalterliche Reiterhiite mit aufgekriimpten 

 breiten Randern und mit Federn, spitze graue Filzkappen, wie sie 

 die Narren auf deutschen Maskeraden zu tragen pflegten und 

 Stiefel-Facons aus alien Jahrhunderten, in denen solche getragen 

 wurden." This is a picture, though probably exaggerated, of a 

 certain class of German youths, who, like the poet Lenau, were 

 attracted to America out of love for romance and adventure. 



MoLLHAusi]N. — Of those German novelists who have identi- 

 fied themselves with America none more deserves to be called 

 the German Cooper than Balduin Mollhausen (1825-1905). His 

 great command over American material, his skill in the portrayal 

 of character, and his ability in the handling of a plot give him the 

 most prominent place among the writers of transatlantic fiction. 

 Like Cooper, too, he wrote a number of excellent sea novels, 

 which give him an envial)le place among the German writers of 

 this species of fiction. Mollhausen had come to America about 

 1849, and early in 1850 joined the expedition of Duke Paul of 

 A¥iirtemberg to the Rocky Mountains. He returned to Ger- 

 many in 1852. In April, 1853, he again sailed to America and 

 there received a position as topographer in a government expedi- 

 tion conducted by Lieutenant Whipple for the purpose of investi- 

 gating the nearest route for a railroad to the Pacific. Mollhausen 

 returned to Germauy in 1854. In 1857 he was again on his way 

 to America, now as assistant to an expedition sent by the United 

 States Government under Lieutenant Ives to explore and survey 

 the Colorado River. From this expedition he returned to Ger- 

 many in 1858. On these various journeys Mollhausen had en- 

 joyed an excellent opportunity to study life in America, especially 



