Contents

CHAPTER                                                                                                             PAGB

I. Writers OF New Amsterdam .         i

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.    ThoSK    who   O.ATnKRF.D   ABOUT

POE.....      145

iX. At the Close of THE Knicker¬
bocker Days                 .       .167

X. Half a Century ago                   189

XI. Two Famous Meeting-Places    209
XII. Some of the Writers of To-

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