Bainbridge, Commodore William, 295, 297.

Balzac, Honore de, Criticisms of Cooper, 204, 240, 284.

Barry Cornwall. See _Procter_.

Barry, John, 296, 297.

Benjamin, Park, 159; Cooper's libel suit with, 187.

Bentley, London publisher of Cooper's later works, 262.

"Blackwood's Magazine," 58;
abuse of Cooper, 174.

Berne, Cooper's residence near, 68.

Boone, Daniel, 72.

"Borderers, The" (English title), 291.

Boston, Cooper's criticism of, 171, 172.

Bostonians practice "gouging," 97.

"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;
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