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]
[XII.]Some of the Writers of To-Day[230]

Full-Page Illustrations

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[The “Half Moon” on the Hudson, 1609]
From the painting by L.W. Seavey.		Frontispiece
[The Stadt Huys]8
[Broad Street, 1642]30
[King’s College, about 1773]42
[The Debtors’ Prison]48
[William Smith
Peter Stuyvesant
Philip Freneau
Thomas Paine
Joel Barlow]		60
[The First Tammany Wigwam, Corner Nassau and Spruce Streets]70
[Map of Streets in the City of New York in 1827]76
[James Kirke Paulding
Philip Hone
Washington Irving
Joseph Rodman Drake
Fitz-Greene Halleck
J. Fenimore Cooper]		100
[The Park Theatre, Park Row, 1831]136
[Richard Henry Stoddard
John James Audubon
William Cullen Bryant
Bayard Taylor
Edgar Allan Poe
Robert Fulton]		150
[Poe’s Cottage at Fordham]
From a drawing by C.W. Mielatz, by permission.
Copyright, 1899, by The Society of Iconophiles.		158
[The Battery in 1830]
From a drawing by C. Burton.		164
[The Apollo Rooms in 1830]170
[View of Old Buildings in William Street, Looking Towards Maiden Lane, 1800]182
[W.D. Howells
J.G. Holland
Richard Grant White
Brander Matthews
William Winter]		200
From an engraving of the picture by J.H. Marble;courtesy of W.E. Benjamin.