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no mental perspective, and made small matters as important as great. Constantly reproaching America for not being Europe, he also satirized Europe for being what it was. As a result, he was for a time equally detested by the press of both countries. The English, he thought, had a national propensity to blackguardism, and certainly the remarks he drew from them did something to vindicate the charge. When the London Times called him affected, offensive, curious, and ill-conditioned, and Fraser's magazine, a liar, a bilious braggart, a full jackass, an insect, a grub, and a reptile, they clearly left little for America to say in that direction. Yet Park Benjamin did his best, or his worst, when he called Cooper (in Greeley's New Yorker ) a superlative dolt and the common mark of scorn and contempt of every well-informed American ; and so did Webb, when he pronounced the novelist a base-minded caitiff who had traduced his country. Not being able to reach his English opponents, Coo