This work notes that the central figure "is more interesting when he is not noticing what he is about than when he is" after discussing the improbability of a scene where three bullets are fired into the same hole. Beginning 
This work notes that the central figure "is more interesting when he is not noticing what he is about than when he is" after discussing the improbability of a scene where three bullets are fired into the same hole. Beginning with laudatory quotes from Wilkie Collins and Brander Matthews, it describes eighteen violations of "rules governing literary art in romantic fiction" and argues that the central figure "saw nearly all things as through a glass eye, darkly." It attacks as nonsensical a scene where five Indians jump for and miss a boat, and calls the central series of novels "the Broken Twig series." Concluding by calling The ? Deerslayer "a literary delirium tremens," FTP, name this 1885 essay lampooning errors made by the author of the Leatherstocking Tales, written by Mark Twain.
This work notes that the central figure "is more interesting when he is not noticing what he is about than when he is" after discussing the improbability of a scene where three bullets are fired into the same hole.
“{Fenimore Cooper's} Literary {Offenses}”