Chapter XII
Some of the Writers of To-Day

THERE is little of old-time pic-
turesqueness in the city of New
York to-day, where buildings are too
towering, too massive, too thickly
clustered to offer artistic and unique
effects. But a stroll about the homes
of the writers of the city invests their
rather commonplace surroundings
with more than passing interest.

In the older part of the town, the
section that was all of New York
a hundred years ago and is now the
far down-town, there are many re¬
minders of those friends whose books
are on the most easily reached library
shelf.

To No. ID West Street, that stands
on the river front, Robert Louis
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