Hot corn: Life Scenes in New York Illustrated

We started in the first chapter of our volume of "Life Scenes," to take an evening-walk up Broadway. How little progress we have made. We turned off at Cortland street, to follo...

Although all my scenes are connected, and bear some relation one to the other, yet they are not continuous. Like the Panorama of Niagara, we must go back, cross over, look up, l...

Visit this city--walk with me from nine o'clock till midnight, through the streets of New York, in the month of August, then read the first interview of the author with little K...

Perhaps some of my readers have been sufficiently interested to inquire, "Who is Agnes, and what of her?" Perhaps there may be some, who, like Mrs. McTravers, think she is not a...

At the close of chapter nine, we left Athalia standing by the side of her trunk and bandbox on the sidewalk, in front of her now empty home. After paying up the rent, and a few...

One of the reasons why the vicious scorn those who would make them better; why they scorn to change their present wretched life, or miserable habitations, is because they know n...

If those who would reform the vicious, knew the power of love and kind words towards the poor fallen creatures who abound in our city, and how much stronger they are than prison...

Reagan took the pledge, and took up his residence at that house of the destitute. At first, he did not ask to live with his wife. He said, he was not worthy of her. He begged To...

Athalia wore not unwomanly rags at the period when I shall commence her history. She was clad in the garb of a country girl, just arrived in the city, in the full expectation th...

We have only heard the name once, during the conversation, between Madame De Vrai and the black woman, Phebe, overheard in that eaves-dropping midnight scene described in the la...

Marriage, death, bankruptcy, poverty, sin, and, finally, "plucked like a brand from the burning," are the contents, the introduction, and peroration, of this chapter. If you are...

That was well exemplified in the last chapter. It may be in this. If any of the readers of these "Scenes" suppose the writer lost sight of the chance to do good, and the right t...

Walter came down on the train with the Grundys. They urged him to "abandon his folly, and go home with them." They little thought they had no home to go to themselves. He said,...

About two months after the events of the last chapter, a few of the new friends of James Reagan joined together, procured a comfortable room in Mulberry street, and put in the n...

No, not even rum; yet it often does. We have just read of one of the many thousand sad instances that have occurred in this world, of rum separating those who had taken upon the...

I have still another little episode in this life drama--a scene in one of the acts, which we may as well put upon the stage at this point of the story, though it is quite unconn...

'Twas then and there that that fallen mother was touched by a power greater than human strength--'twas then as she knelt over her dead child, she had said, "never, never, never,...

When Mrs. McTravers told me that Mrs. De Vrai had sent a message for me, I was too weary to measure steps along a few blocks; but when I read those three little magic words, wea...

"Here's your nice Hot Corn, smoking hot, smoking hot, just from the pot!" Hour after hour one evening, as I sat over the desk, this cry came up in a soft, plaintive voice, under...

Julia Antrim and other Old Acquaintances The Penitentiary--the Visit to Mrs. May Stella May in her New Home Julia Antrim's Story Names and Characters for Life Scenes Invitation...

The Little Peddler The Exchange--Money for Rum, Health for Misery Mr. Lovetree Stella May Savage, Civilized, and Christian Nature A Walk up Broadway Mysterious Disappearance The...

Wild Maggie The Five Points--Dens where Human Beings Live Wild Maggie's Home The House of Industry--Commencement of the Ragged School The Rat-hole--The Temperance Meeting--The P...

The Temptation--The Fall--James Reagan after the Pledge The Conspiracy at Cale Jones's Grocery Tom Top--Snaky Jo--Ring-nosed Bill--Old Angeline Reagan Rescued by Maggie His Seco...

Life at the Five Points--Madalina, the Rag-Picker's Daughter Cow Bay and its Inhabitants Tom and the Glass of Cold Water "I never Kiss any but those I Love" "Our Trade," said th...

Scenes in Broadway First Appearance of Hot Corn Sally Eaton--Julia Antrim Drunken Man Killed by an Omnibus Bill Eaton sent to the Hospital The Fire--Mrs. Eaton's House Burned Th...