ABSTRACT
Edgar Allan Poe—fiction writer, poet, and critic—was born in Boston, Massachusetts, orphaned when barely three, and made the ward of the Allan family, in Richmond, Virginia. Wyandotte; or, The Huffed Knoll is, in its general features, precisely similar to the novels enumerated in the title. It is a forest subject; and when we say this, we give assurance that the story is a good one; for Mr. Cooper has never been known to fail, either in the forest or upon the sea. In the depicting of character, Mr. Cooper has been unusually successful in Wyandotte. The most obvious and most unaccountable faults of The Hutted Knoll are those which appertain to the style—to the mere grammatical construction;—for, in other and more important particulars of style, Mr. Cooper, of late days, has made a very manifest improvement. In the depicting of character, Mr. Cooper has been unusually successful in Wyandotte.
