I, p.

122.] [Footnote 19: Cooper measured his own success by the same test.

At the conclusion of the Letter to the Publisher with which _The Pioneers_ originally opened he said he should look to his publisher for "the only true account of the reception of his book." (Lounsbury's _Life of Cooper_, pp.

43-4.)] [Footnote 20: _Napoleon_, Vol.

I, ch.