Chapter 12

Some of the Writers of To-Day

There is little of old-time picturesqueness in the city of New York to-day, where buildings are too towering, too massive, too thickly clustered to offer artistic and unique effects. But a stroll about the homes of the writers of the city invests their rather commonplace surroundings with more than passing interest.

In the older part of the town, the section that was all of New York a hundred years ago and is now the far down-town, there are many reminders of those friends whose books are on the most easily reached library shelf.

To No. 10 West Street, that stands on the river front, Robert Louis Stevenson was taken by a fellow-voyager in 1879; here he stopped the first night he spent in America, and of this house he wrote in the _Amateur Emigrant_. From the waterside just at dusk, catching a dim outline of the varying housetops is to glimpse some old castle of feudal times. The lowest building in all this block is No. 10--a meagre, dingy, two-story structure that has come to be very old. The doors and windows seem to have been made for some other building, and to be trying to get back to where they belong, bulging out in the struggle and making rents in the house-front.

Crossing Battery Park to State Street, at No. 17 is the tall Chesebrough building that has sprung up on the spot where William Irving, brother of Washington, lived, and where the Salmagundi wits gathered sometimes in the evening. Two or three doors farther along is a survival of old New York which delights the eye, with its porticoes and oval windows, odd appearing and many-sided; a mansion when wealth and affluence clustered around the Battery. This is the scene of the first few chapters of Bunner's _Story of a New York House_. Around the corner and through the wide doors of the Produce Exchange, at the back of that building and literally hidden in the middle of the block, is an old street that seems to have lost its usefulness, a quaint and curious way full half a century and more behind the times, now bearing the name of Marketfield Street, but once called Petticoat Lane. It is no longer a thoroughfare, for in its length of half a block it has neither beginning nor end. Here is all that is left of the house in which Julia Ward Howe was born.

Passing along Broad Street, where Edmund C. Stedman, the poet and financier, has an office close to Wall Street, you come in a few minutes to the Custom House. To enter that building is to get lost in a moment. Pass through the door into a veritable trackless wilderness of narrow black halls, with rooms that open in the most unexpected corners, and come after a while to the Debenture Room of old, and to the window near which Richard Henry Stoddard had his desk for close upon twenty years.

Freed from the intricacies of the old building, continue the stroll up-town, and in Park Row, at No. 29, on the third floor, is found the old home of the _Commercial Advertiser_, where Jesse Lynch Williams worked, and wrote _A City Editor's Conscience_, and other stories. A little way farther on is the _Tribune_ building, where William Winter has his den, and under the same roof the room where Irving Bacheller conducted a newspaper syndicate before _Eben Holden_ was thought of. Then on again a few steps to the _Sun_ building and into the room, little changed from the time when Charles A. Dana sat there so many years, and, close by, the reporters' room where Edward W. Townsend worked, and wrote about _Chimmie Fadden_. There is a winding staircase, that the uninitiated could never find, leading into the rooms of the _Evening Sun_, where Richard Harding Davis "reported," and where he conceived some of the Van Bibber stories. Directly across the street is the _World_ office, and looking from the windows, so high up that the city looks like a Lilliputian village, you have the view that Elizabeth Jordan looked upon during the ten years she was getting inspiration for the _Tales of a City Room_. Down narrow Frankfort Street is Franklin Square, the home of _Harper's Magazine_, where George W. Curtis established his Easy Chair in which he was enthroned so long, and which is now occupied by William Dean Howells.

Cherry Street leads out of Franklin Square direct to Corlear's Hook Park. Half a hundred feet before that green spot is reached, in a squalid neighborhood of dirty house-fronts, ragged children, begrimed men, and slovenly women, there is a house numbered 426, above the door of which are the words: "I was sick and ye visited Me." Dwellers in the neighborhood know that this is a hospital for those suffering from incurable disease, but, beyond this, seem to know very little about it. It is the home of Rose Hawthorne Lathrop, the daughter of Nathaniel Hawthorne, who has given up her entire life to brighten many another. In the same block, but nearer to Scammel Street, which is next towards the south, Brent's foundry used to be in the days when Richard Henry Stoddard was an iron-worker and the friend of Bayard Taylor, whom he visited in Murray Street.

From this far East Side to Washington Square is quite a distance, but stop half-way at Police Headquarters and the nearby reporters' offices. Any one there will be glad to point out the room where Jacob A. Riis worked so many years and wrote most of _How the Other Half Lives_, and from which he carried out his ideas for benefiting the city poor--carried them out so well that President Roosevelt called him New York's most useful citizen.

In Washington Square the wanderer has much to think of in the literary associations recalled by this green garden that has blossomed from a pauper graveyard, and which has been written of by Howells, Brander Matthews, Bayard Taylor, Bunner, Henry James, F. Hopkinson Smith, and almost every writer who has brought New York into fiction.

From the square, stroll in any direction for definite reminders. Towards the south and around into Macdougal Street, at No. 146, there is a dingy brick house with a trellised portico, where Brander Matthews and his friends used to dine, and which James L. Ford made the Garibaldi of his _Bohemia Invaded_. Walk towards the east, past the site of the University building, and stand at the Greene Street corner, at No. 21 Washington Place, where Henry James was born. Towards the west a few steps into Waverly Place, at No. 108, is a squat red brick house where Richard Harding Davis wrote his newspaper tales. Across, at the corner, lived George Parsons Lathrop when he wrote _Behind Time_, and there his wife, Rose Hawthorne Lathrop, wrote _Along the Shore_. An historic site this house stands on, for it is where Stoddard and Taylor once lived together. A block to the north is old-time Clinton Place, which now, for modern convenience, recking not of memory or of sentiment, has become Eighth Street. There, to the left of Fifth Avenue, at No. 18, is where Paul du Chaillu wrote _Ivar the Viking_, and to the right the house opposite, covered from basement to eaves with green clustering vines, is the home of Richard Watson Gilder.

It is only a question now of crossing half a dozen city blocks towards the east to wander into what was called the Bouwerie Village. Modern streets and modern improvements have so overridden the village of old that traces of it are few and difficult to find. Here in this district many a writer of New York has lived. At Fourth Avenue and Tenth Street still stands the house, known to all who lived there as "The Deanery," in which Miss Annie Swift kept boarders, and where the family of Richard Henry Stoddard lived during the last four years that Mr. Stoddard held his post in the Custom House. Here Stedman, and Bayard Taylor, and Howells were visitors, with scores of other writers; here Mrs. Stoddard wrote _The Morgensons_, and here Stoddard himself wrote _The King's Bell_, _Melodies and Madrigals_, and other poems. Not more than a block away, in the house numbered 118, Richard Grant White had his home when he wrote _The New Gospel of Peace, According to St. Benjamin_.

Around the corner in Third Avenue, at Thirteenth Street, is a tablet telling of the pear tree that Peter Stuyvesant brought from Holland, that grew and flourished on the edge of the Stuyvesant orchard for more than two hundred years. Within a stone's throw of the tree in the sixties, and while it yet bloomed, Stoddard lived with his friend Bayard Taylor, and here the _Life of Humboldt_ came from Stoddard's pen. Around another corner into Fourteenth Street and down a block to No. 224, Paul du Chaillu had apartments when he wrote _The Land of the Midnight Sun_; but the tree-filled yard and the vine-covered cottage next to it, on which the writer's window looked, are buried beneath a dwelling in the full flush of newness.

In Fifteenth Street, just past Stuyvesant Park, is a really picturesque row of tiny houses that must have been there when Stuyvesant Park was very new indeed. They have balconies enclosed by iron fretwork, and the first in the row is especially dainty and attractive, and quite overshadowed by the lofty building that has grown up beside it. In this out-of-the-way corner the Stoddards lived for something more than a quarter of a century, and here they died, the brilliant son first, then Mrs. Stoddard, and finally Richard Henry Stoddard, in 1903.

Along the parkside and around the corner to Seventeenth Street, No. 330 was another interesting landmark until, quite lately, it was swept away. Brander Matthews lived there, and could look across the square to the gray towers of St. George's while he wrote the _French Dramatists of the Nineteenth Century_. H.C. Bunner had quarters there when he wrote _A Woman of Honor_ and other stories of that period, and Richard Grant White was a long dweller there.

Northward a few streets, on the south side of Gramercy Park, is the house of John Bigelow, writer of half a dozen important books, who fifty years and more ago assisted William Cullen Bryant in the editorial conduct of the _Evening Post_. Only a few steps away, in historic Irving Place, the ivy-covered house is where Mrs. Burton Harrison wrote _Sweet Bells out of Tune_, and on another block farther to the south the Lotus Club long had its home, the building now given over to commercial uses.

In the short stretch of Fifteenth Street that leads from Irving Place to Union Square are two points closely associated with the literature of the city. One is midway the distance, the prosaic office of a brewer now, but once the home of the Century Club when Bancroft the historian was its president. The other is nearer to the square, with a tall iron fence, and a gateway not at all in keeping with the modern appearance of the street. Behind the tall fence is a bit of greensward, and beyond that a house quaintly unusual in appearance, seeming to shrink from sight in the shadows cast about it. This is where Richard Watson Gilder at one time lived, where Charles De Kay organized the Authors' Club, and where the Society of American Artists was formed.

Beyond Union Square there is in Eighteenth Street the house numbered 121 where Brander Matthews lived for fourteen or more years, where he wrote many of his books, and where was held the first meeting to organize the American Copyright League. It was Professor Matthews who gave the dinner at which the unique society known as the Kinsmen came into being, at the Florence on the same street at number 105,--an apartment house in which Ellen Glasgow, Elizabeth Bisland, and Edgar Saltus have made their homes, and in which the widow of Herman Melville is now living.

In nearby Nineteenth Street is still standing No. 35, a house where Horace Greeley lived, with William Allen Butler, the author of _Nothing to Wear_, for a next-door neighbor. Three blocks farther on is the big office building where Dr. Josiah Strong wrote most of _Our Country_, and where Hamilton W. Mabie has a study in the editorial rooms of _The Outlook_. A few steps farther in Twenty-second Street, at No. 33, Stephen Crane wrote part of _The Red Badge of Courage_ and worked on the daily newspapers. Close by in Fifth Avenue is the publishing house where the critic and essayist, William Crary Brownell, author of _French Traits_, and other works, spends his business hours. Around the corner in Twenty-third Street, on the top floor of another publishing house is the den of the energetic author, editor, and critic, Jeannette L. Gilder. Across Madison Square, at the Twenty-fifth Street corner, Edgar Saltus had apartments for some time, and just off Broadway in Twenty-seventh Street, at No. 26, Edgar Fawcett wrote _A Mild Barbarian_.

On up Madison Avenue past Twenty-eighth Street is a brownstone dwelling with a luxuriantly blooming window garden, where James Lane Allen lives when he is in town and revises his writings. A few steps into the next thoroughfare the Little Church Around the Corner nestles in a populous district, and in the next block, just beyond the Woman's Hotel, Mrs. Burton Harrison has written many of her books. Two blocks away, in the _Life_ building, John A. Mitchell, founder of the paper, spends several working hours of each day.

Going farther up-town in Park Avenue just beyond Thirty-sixth Street is a substantial building where Dr. Josiah Gilbert Holland wrote and where he died. In nearby Thirty-seventh Street hover memories of Parke Godwin, who married the daughter of William Cullen Bryant, and whose business and literary interests were closely entwined with those of his father-in-law. A few steps westward is the solemnly quiet Brick Presbyterian Church, where Dr. Henry van Dyke preached before he was called to Princeton. Turning into Forty-sixth Street, note a house distinguished from its neighbors by a doorway of wrought-iron, where John A. Mitchell did much of the writing of _Amos Judd_.

Across town, where Fifty-first Street touches the East River, is a street so short and so out-of-the-way that few New Yorkers have ever heard of it. It is called Beekman Place, and in it survives the memory of the old Beekman house which stood near by, and which in the days of the Revolution was used as a British headquarters. It was in the Beekman house that Nathan Hale rested his last night on earth. Here in this quiet spot Henry Harland lived in the eighties, when he was employed in the Register's Office and got up at two o'clock many and many a morning to write (under the name of Sidney Luska) some of his earlier books. The windows of his home looked out upon a beautiful and unusual city scene. Any one going now to where Fifty-first Street ends at an embankment high above the river may see it just as he saw it then--see the waves splashing on a rocky shore, with neither docks nor wharves nor factories to interfere; see a broad river; see a green island with stone turreted towers, and in the distance, forming a background, the irregular sky-line of the Brooklyn borough shore.

Farther up-town to Central Park, and there on the south side is the mammoth apartment house close to Sixth Avenue, where William Dean Howells did much of his work; and on beyond the avenue, at No. 150, Kate Douglas Wiggin evolved _Penelope's Experiences_. Still on up-town, following the easterly side of the park, in Sixty-fourth Street, at No. 16, Carl Schurz lived, and in Seventy-seventh Street is the square house of stone where Paul Leicester Ford met such a fearful death.

Crossing Central Park to the far west side, the journeyer comes to wide, tree-lined West End Avenue, and there at Ninety-third Street, almost upon the shores of the Hudson River, in a locality of beautiful homes, Brander Matthews, author of _Vignettes of Manhattan_ and _A Confident To-morrow_, lives and works. Returning down-town on the westerly side of the city, stop just beyond Amsterdam Avenue and Eighty-sixth Street before a house, colonial as to its doors and windows at least, the home of that distinguished naval officer and writer, Captain A.T. Mahan. On the nearest corner is the church where funeral services were held over Paul du Chaillu when his body was brought back from Russia. Down a few streets, John Denison Champlin, author and encyclopædist, has his home, in a yellow apartment house, and half a block along Seventy-eighth Street stands the terra cotta building occupied by Stedman before he moved to Bronxville. Down to Sixty-fifth Street now, a dozen steps or more west of Central Park, Edgar Fawcett conceived _A Romance of Old New York_, before going to Europe for an indefinite stay.

In Thirty-fourth Street, midway between Seventh and Eighth Avenues, visit the solid little brick house, with green shutters and an air of dignity that proclaims it of another time. This has stood for three quarters of a century and at one time had no neighbors. There, until 1898, when he went to Princeton, Lawrence Hutton gathered his collection of objects artistic from all parts of the world; there he kept his assortment of death masks; there he wrote and entertained his friends, authors, actors, men of different callings.

Let the last step be to that reminder of old Chelsea Village, in Twenty-third Street beyond Ninth Avenue, called London Terrace. The Terrace was built when Chelsea was really a village, and exists to-day long after the village has ceased to have an identity. One house in the row, No. 413, is particularly interesting, picturesquely and historically, carrying as its literary association the name of Charles De Kay, critic and author--a name of to-day and of the past as well, for he is the grandson of the poet, Joseph Rodman Drake.

Index

A

_Adventures of Captain Bonneville, The_, 102

_Afara_, 139

_Age of Reason, The_, 32, 84

Aldrich, James, 179

Aldrich, Thomas Bailey, 218

Allen, James Lane, 247

All Souls' Church, 188

_Along the Shore_, 238

_Amateur Emigrant_, 231

_American_, 174

American Copyright League, 245

_American Game in its Season_, 216

_American Monthly Magazine_, 154, 180

_American Review_, 158

_American Theatre, The_, 70

_Amos Judd_, 249

_Analectic Magazine_, 96, 112

_An Appeal for that Class of Americans Called Africans_, 200

"Ancient Club of New York," 110

André, Major John, 55, 56

_Androborus_, 37

_Annabel Lee_, 164

Apollo dancing rooms, 170

_Arcturus_, 178

_Ariel in the Cloven Pine_, 206

Arnold, Benedict, House of, 56

Arnold, George, 215, 216

_Arthur Mervyn_, 78

Astor House, 172

Astor, John Jacob, 102, 123

Astor Place Opera House, 160

_Astoria_, 102

_Atlantic Monthly_, 133

Audubon, John James, 189-195

Authors' Club, 245

B

Bacheller, Irving, 234

_Backwoodsman, The_, 113

Bancroft, George, 103, 186

Barlow, Joel, 84

Barstow, Elizabeth, 204

Bartlett, John R., 172-180

Bartlett's Book Shop, 172-180

_Battle Pieces_, 224

_Beauties of Santa Cruz_, 52

Beekman House, The, 249

_Behind Time_, 238

_Bells, The_, 164

_Ben Bolt_, 162

Benjamin, Park, 175, 179, 180

_Biblical Researches in Palestine_, 151

Bigelow, John, 183, 243

Bisland, Elizabeth, 246

Bleecker, Eliza, 47-51

Bleecker Street, 83

Bloomingdale Village, 145, 157

_Bohemia Invaded_, 238

Boker, George H., 207

Bonneville, Captain, 102

Bonneville, Madame, 82, 83

Books of New Amsterdam, 7

Booth, Mary L., 227

Botta, Mrs., 197, 199, 200

Botta, Vincenzo, 198

Bouwerie Village, 19, 22

Bowling Green, 8

Bradford's printing press, 27

Bradford, William, 38, 57

Bradford, William, tomb of, 25-29

_Bravo, The_, 134

Bread-and-Cheese Club, 131-133

Brevoort, Henry, 110

Brickmaking in New Amsterdam, 3

Briggs, Charles F., 159, 160

_British Prison Ship, The_, 53

Broad Street, 7, 13, 31

Broadway, 67

_Broadway Journal_, 159

Brook Farm, 205

Brown, Charles Brockden, 77, 78-80

Browne, George Farrar, 217

Brownell, William Crary, 247

Bryant, William Cullen, 132, 133, 174, 180-188

Bunner, H.C., 243

Burns's Coffee House, 99

Burr, Aaron, 63, 190

Burton, William E., 150

Butler, William Allen, 246

C

_Calaynos_, 207

Cary, Alice, 222-228

Cary, Phoebe, 222-228

_Cecil Dreeme_, 219

Century Club, 186, 244

_Champion of Freedom, The_, 130

Champlin, John Denison, 252

Cheever, George B, 151

Chelsea Square, 195, 196

Chelsea Village, 145, 195, 196

Child, Lydia M., 199, 200

_Chimmie Fadden_, 234

Church Farm, 33

Church in the Fort, 15, 20

Church of the Holy Communion, 229

_City Editor's Conscience, A_, 234

City Hall, First, 8

City Hall in Wall Street, 31

City Hall Park, 48, 67, 108

City Hall (Present), 75, 109

City Hotel, 100, 128

City Plan Commission, 109, 110

Clapp, Henry, 213

Clapp's _Almanac_, John, 27-29

_Clara Howard_, 78

_Clari, the Maid of Milan_, 74

Clark, Lewis Gaylord, 175-178

Clark, Willis Gaylord, 176

Clarke, McDonald, 136-144

_Clermont, The_, 109

Clinton Hall, 159, 160

Cobbett, William, 85

Colden, Cadwallader, 38, 39, 42, 43

Collect Pond, 22, 48

Columbia College, 81, 116, 174

Columbia University, 43

_Columbiad_, 84

_Commentaries on American Law_, 81

_Commercial Advertiser_, 65, 183

_Common Sense_, 82

Common, The, 48, 49, 67

_Complaint of New Netherland, The_, 10

_Confident To-morrow, A_, 251

_Conquest of Grenada_, 97

Contoit's Garden, 170

Cooke, George Frederick, 71, 72

Cooper, James Fenimore, 125-136, 184

Cooper, Susan Fenimore, 127

Cornbury, Lord, 34, 35

Corporation Library, 31

_Corsair, The_, 155

Cosby, Governor, 39-43

Cozzens, Frederick S., 175, 178

Crane, Stephen, 246

_Criterion, The_, 222

"Croaker Papers," 119

Croegers, Tryntie, 15

_Cromwell_, 216

_Culprit Fay, The_, 121

Curtis, George William, 235

D

Dana, Charles A., 234

Dana, Richard Henry, 130, 131

Da Ponte, Lorenzo, 141, 142

Davis, Richard Harding, 234, 238

_Deacon Giles's Distillery_, 151

Dearman, 104

_Death of the Flowers_, 181

Debtors' Prison, 49-51

DeKay, Charles, 245, 254

De Lancey, Étienne, 99

Dennie, Joseph, 77, 79, 80

De Sille, Anna, 18

De Sille, Nicasius, 11-19

_Deukalion_, 208

Dewey, Orville, 185

_Diamond Lens, The_, 220

_Dictionary of Americanisms_, 172

_Diverting History of John Bull and Brother Jonathan_, 112

_Don Giovanni_, 141

Downing, Major Jack, 150, 201

Drake, Joseph Rodman, 103, 115-124

Draper, Dr. John W., 220, 221

Du Chaillu, Paul, 239, 241, 252

Duke's Farm, 32

Dunlap, William, 70, 71, 77

_Dutchman's Fireside, The_, 113

Duyckinck, Evert A., 175, 178, 179

Duyckinck, George, 179

Dyde's, 111

E

East River Park, 101

_Eben Holden_, 234

_Edgar Huntley_, 78

Elgin Botanical Garden, 81

_Elixir of Moonshine_, 139

Embury, Emma C., 144

_Encyclopædia of American Literature_, 179

English, Thomas Dunn, 162, 164

_Eureka_, 163

_Evening Mirror_, 152, 156-159

_Evening Post_, 181, 182

Exchange Street, 13

F

Fairlie, Mary, 94

_Fall of the House of Usher_, 150

_Fanny_, 118

_Fashion and Famine_, 202

Fawcett, Edgar, 247, 253

Fay, Theodore S., 154

Federal Hall, 62

_Federalist_, 62

Fire of 1776, 54

First almanac printed, 27-29

First City Hall, 8

First free school, 109

First library, 31

First museum, 171

First newspaper, 38, 57

First newspaper row, 57

First night watch, 25

First poet of New Amsterdam, 4-10

First Poorhouse, 49

First printing press, 27

First street lighting, 25

First Tammany Hall, 71

First telegraphic message, 194

Fitzroy, Lord Augustus, 41, 42

_Footnotes_, 204

Fordham, 162-166

Ford, James L., 238

Ford, Paul Leicester, 251

Forester, Frank, 216

_Forest Life_, 199

Forrest-Macready Riots, 160

Francis, Dr. J.W., 132

Frankfort Street, 45, 46

_French Dramatists of the Nineteenth Century_, 243

_French Traits_, 247

Freneau, Philip, 47, 51-66

Friendly Club, 77

Fuller, Margaret, 202, 203

G

Gaine, Hugh, 58-60

_Gazetteer_, Rivington's, 56

General Theological Seminary, 195, 196

_Gentleman's Magazine, The_, 150, 152

Gilder, Jeannette L., 247

Gilder, Richard Watson, 239, 245

_Give Me the Old_, 151

Glasgow, Ellen, 246

_Gleanings in Europe_, 135

_Glimpses of Home Life_, 143

_Godey's Lady's Book_, 161

Godwin, Parke, 182, 183, 186, 248

Golden Hill, 48, 87, 88

Golden Hill Inn, 88

Goodrich, Samuel G., 227

Gowans, William, 149

Gracie's house, 103

_Graham's Magazine_, 152

_Grayslaer_, 175

Greeley, Horace, 202, 205, 206, 224, 246

Greenwich Village, 81-83, 145, 146

Griswold, Rufus W., 207

Grove Street, 84

H

Hackett, James H., 114

Halleck, Fitz-Greene, 103, 115-124, 132, 138, 142

Hall of Records, 49-51

Halpine, Charles Graham, 220

Hamilton, Alexander, 62, 191

Hamilton Grange, 62

_Handbook of Universal Literature_, 198

Hanover Square, 57-59, 61

Harland, Henry, 250

Harlem, 145

Harrison, Mrs. Burton, 244, 248

"Harry Franco," 159, 174

Haven, Alice, 228

Hell Gate, 101

Herbert, Henry W., 216, 217

Hildreth, Richard, 224

Hillhouse, James A., 128, 181

_History of Intellectual Development in Europe_, 221

_History of New York_, 227

_History of the City of New York_, 227

_History of the Five Nations_, 39

_History, Rise, and Progress of the Arts of Design in the United States_, 70

_Hobomok_, 199

Hodgkinson, Thomas Hawkins, 120

Hoffman, Charles Fenno, 173-176, 206

Hoffman, Josiah Ogden, 95

Hoffman, Matilda, 95, 174

Holland, Dr. Josiah Gilbert, 248

_Home Journal_, 157

_Home, Sweet Home_, 74

_Homeward Bound_, 136

Hone, Philip, 132, 183

Hoogh Street, 10

_Horse and Horsemanship in North America, The_, 216

_Horseshoe Robinson_, 149

Hosack, Dr. David, 81

_House of Night, The_, 52

Houses of New Amsterdam, 2, 3

Howe, Julia Ward, 233

Howells, William Dean, 218, 235, 251

_How the Other Half Lives_, 236

Hudson Park, 146-148

Huguenot Church, 32

Hunter, Governor Robert, 35-38

Hutton, Lawrence, 253

I

_Idle Man, The_, 131

Idlewild, 156

_Imp of the Perverse, The_, 158

Independent Columbian Hotel, 94

Irving, Ebenezer, 100

Irving, John T., 104

Irving, Peter, 92, 94, 109, 110

Irvington, 104

Irving, Washington, 87-105, 109-112, 115, 174

Irving, Washington, birthplace of, 89

Irving, William, 93, 107, 108, 110-112, 231

Italian Opera House, 141

_Ivar the Viking_, 239

_I Would Not Live Alway_, 228

J

James, Henry, 238

_Jane Talbot_, 78

Jans Farm, Annetje, 32, 33

_Jersey_, The prison ship, 53

_John Brent_, 219

_John Bull in America_, 114

John Street Theatre, 55, 56, 90, 91

Jordan, Elizabeth, 235

_Judgment, The_, 128

Jumel, Madame, 190

Jumel Mansion, 190

K

Kean, Edmund, 137

Kemble, Gouverneur, 110, 111, 113

Kennedy, John P., 148, 149

Kent, James, 77, 80, 81

Kidd, Captain William, 24

Kilmaster's School, 91

Kimball, Richard, 207

_King's Bell_, 240

King's College, 43

King's Farm, 32

Kinsmen, The, 246

Kip, Hendrick, 12, 18

Kirkland, Caroline M., 198, 199

Kissing Bridge, 22

Knickerbocker Days, Close of the, 167-172

_Knickerbocker History of New York_, 94

_Knickerbocker_ Magazine, 174, 176, 177

Knight, Madame Sarah, 33-35

_Koningsmarke_, 113

_Kubleh_, 206

L

Lafayette Theatre, 134

Lamb, Martha J., 227

La Montagne, Dr., 12

_Land of the Midnight Sun, The_, 242

_Last of the Mohicans, The_, 134

Lathrop, George Parsons, 238

Lathrop, Rose Hawthorne, 236, 238

Lawson, James, 120

"Lay Preacher, The," 79

_Legend of Sleepy Hollow_, 103

Leggett, William, 182

Leisler, Jacob, 46

_Letters from under a Bridge_, 155

Lewis, Estella, 201, 202

_Liberty Bell, The_, 151

_Life and Voyages of Columbus_, 97

_Life of Horace Greeley_, 224

_Life of Humboldt_, 241

_Life of Joseph Brant, The_, 184

_Life of Mahomet_, 105

_Life of Red Jacket, The_, 184

_Life of Washington_, 105

_Lion of the West, The_, 114

_Literary Gazette_, 179

_Literary Magazine and American Register, The_, 80

_Literary World, The_, 179

_Literati of New York, The_, 161

London Terrace, 253

Longfellow, Henry W., 97

Longworth, David, 93

Loockermans, Govert, 12

Ludlow, Fitz-Hugh, 215

Luska, Sidney, 250

Lynch, Anne C., 197-204

M

Mabie, Hamilton W., 246

Mad Poet, The, 136-144

_Magazine of American History_, 227

Mahan, Captain A.T., 252

"Major Jack Downing," 150, 201

_Marco Bozzaris_, 124, 181

Martling's Tavern, 71

_Mary Derwent_, 202

Masonic Hall, 170

Matthews, Brander, 238, 243, 245, 246, 251

McLelland, Isaac, 152

_Melodies and Madrigals_, 240

Melville, Herman, 224-226

Mercantile Library, 160

Messinger, Robert H., 151

Middle Dutch Church, 55, 171

_Mild Barbarian, A_, 247

Miller, John, 29, 30

_Minerva, The_, 65

Minniesland, 189, 194

_Mirror, The_, 130

Mitchell, John A., 248, 249

Mitchill, Dr. Samuel, 94

Moore, Bishop Benjamin, 196

Moore, Clement C., 195, 196

Moreau, Jean Victor, 61

_Morgensons, The_, 240

_Morning Chronicle_, 92, 109

Morris, George P., 130, 138, 153, 154, 156, 157

Morris House, 123, 190

Morse, Samuel F.B., 194

Muhlenberg, Dr. William Augustus, 228

Murray Hill, 60

Murray, Lindley, 60, 61

Murray, Mrs., 60

_My Faith Looks up to Thee_, 140

N

_Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym_, 150

_National Anti-Slavery Standard_, 199

_National Gazette_, 64

_Nearer My Home_, 223

New Amsterdam, 2-6

_New England Magazine_, 179

_New Gospel of Peace, The_, 241

_New Mirror_, 162

Newspaper, First, 38, 57

Newspaper Row, The first, 57

New York before the Civil War, 209-212

_New York Gazette_, 38, 58

_New York Gazetteer_, 58

New York in 1830, 167-172

_New York Journal_, 58

_New York Mercury_, 58

_New York Mirror_, 153-156

_New York Quarterly Review_, 149

_New York Review and Athenæum_, 181

Niblo's Garden, 171

Night watch, The first, 25

Noah, Mordecai M., 138

_Nothing to Wear_, 246

_Nozze di Figaro_, 141

O

O'Brien, Fitz-James, 220, 221

Odellville, 145

_Old Oaken Bucket, The_, 130

_Old Sexton, The_, 180

"Old Tom's," 118, 119

_Oliver Goldsmith_, 105

O'Reilly, Miles, 220

_Ormond_, 78

Osgood, Frances Sargent, 203, 204

_Our Country_, 246

_Our New World_, 180

_Outlook, The_, 246

P

Paine, Thomas, 82-86

Paine, Thomas, Grave of, 85, 86

Paine, Thomas, House of, 83, 84

Palmer, Ray, 139, 140

Park Row, 68

Park Theatre, 68, 72, 75, 77, 171

Parton, James, 224

Paulding, James Kirke, 90, 93, 103, 107-114

_Paul Felton_, 131

Payne, John Howard, 72-75, 97

_Penelope's Experiences_, 251

Percival, James G., 132, 181

"Peter Parley," 227

Petticoat Lane, 233

Pfaff's, 213-218

_Philosophy of Composition_, 161

_Picture of New York_, 94

_Pilot, The_, 128

Pine Street, 32, 75, 76

_Pioneers, The_, 128

Poe, Edgar Allan, 145-166, 200-204

Poe, Virginia, 149, 157, 162, 164

_Poems of the Orient_, 208

Poet, First, of New Netherland, 4-10

_Poets and Poetry of America_, 207

Poorhouse, First, 49

_Portfolio, The_, 79

_Powhatan_, 151

_Prairie, The_, 134

_Praise of New Netherland, The_, 10

_Precaution_, 126

_Prose Writers of America_, 207

_Putnam's Magazine_, 159

Q

Queen's Farm, 32

R

_Raven, The_, 158, 161, 202

_Red Badge of Courage, The_, 246

_Red Rover, The_, 134

Renwick, Jane, 96, 104

Renwick, Professor James, 96, 132

Revolution, New York during the, 54-56

Reynold's Ale House, 117-119

Richmond Hill, 63

Riis, Jacob A., 236

Ripley, George, 205

_Rip Van Winkle_, 97

Rivington, James, 58, 59

Robinson, Edward, 151

_Romance of Old New York, A_, 253

S

St. George's Chapel, 90

St. John's Burying-Ground, 147, 148, 150

St. John's Park, 125, 126

_St. Leger_, 207

St. Luke's Hospital, 228, 229

St. Mark's Church, 22, 23

St. Patrick's Church, 142

St. Paul's Chapel, 62, 108

_Salmagundi_, 41, 93

_Salmagundi's_ Cockloft Hall, 111

Saltus, Edgar, 246, 247

Sands, Robert C, 133, 181

_Saturday Press_, 214, 218

Schurz, Carl, 251

Scudder's Museum, 171

Second City Hall, 12

Selyns, Henricus, 20-24

Shakespeare Tavern, 120

"Sign of the Bible and Crown," 58

_Sinless Child, The_, 200

_Sketches in Switzerland_, 135

Smith, Rev. Eli, 151

Smith, Dr. Elihu Hubbard, 76-79

Smith, Elizabeth Oakes, 201

Smith, Seba, 150

Smith, William, 43, 44

Society Library, 31

Society of American Artists, 245

_Southern Literary Messenger_, 148

_Sparkling and Bright_, 173

_Sparrowgrass Papers_, 178

_Spy, The_, 126, 134

Stadt Huys, 8

Stedman, Edmund C., 218, 233, 253

Steendam, Jacob, 4-10

Stephens, Ann S., 202

Stephens, John L., 175-177

Stevenson, Robert Louis, 230, 231

Stoddard, Richard Henry, 204-207, 233, 236, 238, 240-242

Stoddard, Mrs. Richard Henry, 240, 242

Stone Street, 9

Stone, William L., 175, 183, 184

_Story of a New York House, The_, 232

Streets first lighted, 25

Strong, Dr. Josiah, 246

Stuyvesant, Judith, 11

Stuyvesant, Peter, 1, 11, 12, 19

_Stylus, The_, 152

_Sunday Times and Messenger_, 138

Sunnyside, 104

_Swallow Barn_, 149

_Sweet Bells Out of Tune_, 244

T

_Tales and Sketches of a Cosmopolite_, 120

_Tales of a City Room_, 235

_Tales of a Country Schoolmaster_, 182

_Tales of the Good Woman_, 114

_Talisman_ Magazine, 181

_Talisman, The_, 133

Tammany Hall, First, 71

Taylor, Bayard, 198, 204-208, 218, 238, 241

Temple, Charlotte, 118

Temple Street, 118

Thames Street, 99

_Thistle Finch, The_, 10

Thomson, Mortimer, 215

Tienhoven's Street, 76

_Tom Thornton_, 131

_Town and Country_, 157

Townsend, Edward W., 234

Trinity Church, 26, 32

Tuckerman, Henry T., 221, 222

_Typee_, 226

U

_Ulalume_, 165

_United States and England_, 112

_Universe, The_, 165

V

Van Brugh Street, 57

Van Cortlandt, Oloff, 12

_Vanderlyn_, 175

Van Dyke, Henry, 248

_Vanity Fair_, 215, 218

Van Tassel house, 103

Vauxhall, 171

Verplanck, Gulian C., 133, 142, 181, 186

_Views Afoot_, 205

_Vignettes of Manhattan_, 251

_Visit of St. Nicholas_, 197

_Voyages of the Companions of Columbus_, 98

W

Wallace, William Ross, 151

Wall Street, 6

Wall, The city, 5

Ward, Artemus, 217

Washington, George, 62, 64

Washington Hall, 131

_Water Witch, The_, 134

Webster, Noah, 65

_Weekly Post-Boy_, 58

_Westward Ho!_, 114

Whitehall, 8

White, Richard Grant, 241, 243

Whitman, Walt, 218

_Wieland_, 78

Wiggin, Kate Douglas, 251

_Wild Scenes in Forest and Prairie_, 175

Wiley, the publisher, 130

Williams, Jesse Lynch, 234

William Street, 88

Willis, Nathaniel P., 138, 154-157, 162

Windust's, 111, 137, 138

_Winter in the West, A_, 175

Winter, William, 218, 234

Winthrop, Theodore, 219, 220

_Wolfert's Roost_, 103, 104

_Woman of Honor, The_, 243

_Woodman, Spare that Tree_, 154

Woodworth, Samuel, 129, 130, 142, 153, 154

Y

Yorkville, 145

"Young American Roscius," 73

Z

Zenger, Peter, 38, 40

_BELLES-LETTRES_

Browning, Poet and Man

A Survey. By ELISABETH LUTHER CARY, author of "The Rossettis," "William Morris," etc.

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Tennyson, His Homes, his Friends, and his Work.

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William Morris, Poet, Craftsman, Socialist

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_8o. Fully illustrated, uniform with "The Rossettis," "Browning," etc. Net, $3.50. By mail, $3.75._

William Morris, of active, varied, and interesting life, has been the subject of several biographies, written from different points of view. Nevertheless, there is need for an account that gathers together the chief facts of the life in a condensed form, and connects them with comment and criticism of an informing character. Miss Cary has emphasized the essential unity of purpose underlying the numerous and diverse pursuits in which Morris was engaged, and has sought to distinguish the peculiar and enduring qualities by which his genius was marked.

The Rossettis, Dante Gabriel and Christina

By ELISABETH LUTHER CARY

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