CONTENTS

CHAPTERPAGE
I [The Chequered History of a City Square][3]
II [The Green Village][35]
III [The Gallant Career of Sir Peter Warren][71]
IV [The Story of Richmond Hill][103]
V ["Tom Paine, Infidel"][145]
VI [Pages of Romance] [173]
VII [Restaurants, and the Magic Door][209]
VIII [Villagers][243]
IX [And then More Villagers][269]
[A Last Word][299]

ILLUSTRATIONS

[Milligan Court]Frontispiece
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[Map of Old Greenwich Village]7
[Oldest Building on the Square]24
[Jefferson Market]38
[The Cradle of Bohemia]60
[Old St. John's]82
[Washington Arch]108
[The Butterick Building]130
[59 Grove Street]148
[Grove Court]164
[The Brevoort House] 180
[Grove Street]198
[The Dutch Oven]224
[Patchin Place]246
[Washington Square South]258
[Macdougal Alley] 276
[A Greenwich Studio]290

A FIRST WORD

"'Tis an awkward thing to play with souls,"—and, to my mind, Greenwich Village has a very personal soul that requires very personal and very careful handling. This little foreword is to crave pardon humbly if my touch has not been light, or deft, or sure. There are so many things that I may have left out, so many ways in which I must have erred.