Chapter 16

Position of New York--Externals of the city--Conveyances-- Maladministration--The stores--The hotels--Curiosities of the hospital-- Ragged schools--The bad book--Monster schools--Amusements and oyster saloons--Monstrosities----A restaurant--Dwelling-houses--Equipages-- Palaces--Dress--Figures--Manners--Education--Domestic habits--The ladies-- The gentlemen--Society--Receptions--Anti-English feeling--Autographs--The buckram Englishman.