This afternoon Mr. Stobart and Miss Somerville are to talk of one of the most dearly-loved of boyhood's classics of the past generation. James Fenimore Cooper was the first, the most authentic, and, from the literary point of view, incomparably the best of the long roll of novelists who have written of the noble Red Man of the American prairies and "The Last of the Mohicans" is his most famous work. There can be few middle-aged men whose blood will not thrill at the very mention of Hawk-eye, the scout, his inseparable companion Chingachgook, the Sagamore, and Uncas, the last of the Mohicans; and many a blameless father of a family will even now mutter imprecations as he thinks of the false villainy of Magua, Le Subtil, the dog of the Wyandots. Fenimore Cooper may, for all one knows, seem old-fashioned to the modern boy, but no characters were ever more real than these four, a generation ago.