CHAPTEE XVI

ISLES OF  RECREATION

It is quite impossible in a book of ordinary size to
speak at length of all the features of New York that
are more or less of interest. Miss Florence Levy for
instance publishes an entire work on the Art that is
to be seen in the city alone. The Municipal Art
Commission also has a special volume that describes
all the public monuments, paintings, etc. that belong
to the corporation. And a brief mention of all
treasures that exist in the New York Historical So¬
ciety, the Museum of Natural History, the Metro¬
politan Museum of Art, the Aquarium, the Geo¬
graphical Society, the new Indian Society, Heye
Foundation, the Aquarium, the Zoological collection
in Bronx Park, to say nothing of the dozens of vari¬
ous other organizations more or less available to the
writer—would alone call for not one volume, but
several. In this connection Mr. Fremont Eider has
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