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LITERARY NEW YORK

Its Landmarks and Associations

by

CHARLES HEMSTREET

With 65 Illustrations







[Illustration]


G.P. Putnam's Sons
New York and London
The Knickerbocker Press
1903

Copyright, 1903
by
Charles Hemstreet

Published, November, 1903

The Knickerbocker Press, New York




[Illustration: The "Half-Moon" on the Hudson--1609.

From the painting by L.W. SEAVEY.]




Contents


CHAPTER                                                  PAGE

      I. WRITERS OF NEW AMSTERDAM                           1

     II. BEFORE THE REVOLUTION                             25

    III. THE POET OF THE REVOLUTION                        45

     IV. IN THE DAYS OF THOMAS PAINE                       67

      V. THE CITY THAT IRVING KNEW                         87

     VI. WITH PAULDING, DRAKE, AND HALLECK                106

    VII. COOPER AND HIS FRIENDS                           125

   VIII. THOSE WHO GATHERED ABOUT POE                     145

     IX. AT THE CLOSE OF THE KNICKERBOCKER DAYS           167

      X. HALF A CENTURY AGO                               189

     XI. TWO FAMOUS MEETING-PLACES                        209

