The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1860-04-04

,"us. Is popusnon OF twenty thousand soIts h,d ca
cratic Glars had yet taeir residences in what to
u " tfe narrow space between the Battery aui Wa
street The modes and fashions Of Europe were
imported fresh and iresh. Satsnags~di speaks
leather brooches all the rage for uoreng dress aud
Besh o0ored smals for evening party Cay equpsses
dsthec through tho streets new theatre haa risen ia
Park row, the boards OF which Cooper, OF the
lues OF cecaners, vas performing 10 crowded houses
TIE churches bad multiplied faster than tue places OF
amusement; other pubic buildings OF q mag aiacsaca
hitherto unknown. including present City Hail. hal
heeo erected TemmAry Hail. fresh from the hands OF the
baides. ovcslooked the Park We begsa 10 Affect taste
for pictures AMI the rooms OF Michael Pa the famous
German picture dealer in Broadway, were favorite
lounge Tor such oOnBoisseurs then had who amused
themselves with making him talk Of Mcnae Angelo
bailston Springs were the great fashionable watering
place OF the country to which resorted the planters
the South with splendid equpages and troops Of shining
and rdiOuied the humors Of the time Sth great pro-
digaty OF Wit and less exuberance Of good nature
In form Il resembles the Taa.r, and th.. nums
oos brood Of periodical to which the Of the
1oueT and Spectator gave BIRTH bus IL Ia in
imitation LIS gaiety its own; its style OF humor is
genial spirit OF theirs borrowed from any other
writer. 1t Is far more fr0lcksome aud joyous yes
pered by native gracefulness Sd1rndgsnds vas mani
festy written without the Gear Of criticism before
Of the authors and 10 this Of perfect freedom
In the exercise Of their genius the charm probably
owing which makes still read with SO much delight
Irving seemed 70 place much value In tue part no
bore IN this work. yet doubt whether he excelied
some OF those papers in Salmogdi which boar the most
since acquired . reputation by his other wri ings
hardly DO said 10 hxye wrt.teo anything better
best OF those which ascrbed 70 his pen Just before
Satwormds appeared several OF the authors gave
the literature 0 England its present character begun
to write For FIVE years the quarterly Of the
burg Retteo then In the most brilliant period Of It's
exsseoce had been before public. hszts had taken
bis place among the authors, John Foster had pub
ishcd bis essays. Of the poets Rogers, Campbell aud
moore were beginning to DO popular; Wordsworth had
published his Lyrical Ballads Scott his clay OF the
Last Minstrel Souhey, his "Madoc," Joanna Baltic
two volumes OF her plays In this revival the creative
power III literature, pleasant 70 see that our own
country TOOK part, contributing work of character a.
fresh and original as any they produced ae other
oil the Atlantic Nearly two years after the a-
tumn OF 1902 Appealed In the Eoening addressed 50
the humane an Advertisement requesting infor nation
concerning o small elderly gentleman named Knicker-
booker, dressed III black coat and cooked hat. who al
suddenly left his lodgings at the Columbian Hotel Mdl
berry street. had not been heard Of after wards In
The beginning OF November, "Traveler uaicatec
to the journal the information that he had
person answering to this DESCRIPTION apparently fatgned
north Of Kinasbridge len days later Setu Handa
SIDE the landlord OF the Columbian Hotel, gave notice.
through the same ourna that ne had found In the
ing gentlemans chamber ga curious kind OF written
book" which he should print by way OF reimbursng
himself for what his lcdger owed him In Dece fol-
lowing, Inskeep and Bradford, booksellers, published
"Neorich Kuickerbockor's History Of New York" Sal
mdgtqsdi had prepared the pubic TO receive this work
with favor, and Seth Handasde had regret
having Undertaken its publication. recooct well its
cary and immediate popularity was then q youth 10
college and having committed 20 memory portion OF it
to repeat as defamation before my class, vas so
come with laughter when appeared on the door that
unable proceed aud drew upon myself the rebuke
OF the tutor. have just read this History OF New YORK
again. and found myself less delighted than
when | hTst turned It's pages in my early youth
When compare 1t with other works OF Wit and
humor OF q similar length, fnd that unlike mos.
Of then, !: carries forward the reader to the con-
cius without wearnees or safety, unsough spon
taneous, self suggested the wit and the humor The
than we can help laughing Scott In one OF hts letters
compared the humor Of this work to that of Swift Tho
rich vein Of IrviDgs mirh ID Of quality quite distinct
from the dry droery of Swift, but they have this
mon that they charm by the utter absence effort sod
this WAS probably the ground OF Scotts remark critic
n the London Qarery some years after It's appes,aao
bity to understand what he called the point Of many
Of the illusions this political SATIRE" that he
must have been one OF those respectable who
find it difficult 10 understand joke unless 1t be accom-
psnied With omnenary opening explain ny It to
the humblest capacity Scott found such dIi ulty
our sides, he says, letter to Mr. Brevoort friend
Of Irving, written ijust after he had read the book
''sre absolutely sore with laughing" The mrth
parent sort, and tho author In even tho later ed
lions, judicsously absained from any attempt to
make it more inteiiigiDle by notes. ! fnd, in this
writings of what Irving owed the earlier authors
in language The quaint poetic coloring and often
We conscious Of flavor Of the oldsn time as
OF racy wine Of some rich vintage
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