The Last of the Mohicans | Excerpt from a review
In the following excerpt from a review the author praises Cooper's depiction of Native-American life and discusses plot and characterizations, finding the characters Uncas, Chingachgook, and Bumppo (here called Hawkeye) especially well presented.
[In The Last of the Mohicans Cooper has] attempted to offer a picture of Indian character and life, and we may be justified, by a personal acquaintance with the aboriginal tribes of the North American wilderness which falls to the lot of few Europeans, in pronouncing with confidence that it is a representation of admirable fidelity. That the author has availed himself of the narrative of John Hunter and of the notices of the missionary Heckewelder, is extremely probable; but we are convinced that the tale could never have been written, with the peculiar graphic truth which...
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