Literary New York
 

Chapter I

Writers of New Amsterdam

THERE is a fashion nowadays of
trimming the fronts of brick
houses by placing black bricks among
the red in such a way as to form odd
and unique designs. It
is an attractive way of
doing, for it varies the
staid simplicity of the
solid color. But for all
it may seem original
and new, it is a style
that had its beginning
long, long ago, even in the days when
the stern Peter Stuyvesant governed