The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-01-17

drama that achieved popularity. in the old
Park Thestrs. Mordecai Manuel Noah his
na,sehi was also a fni5rdisur and editor
who wrote melodramAs for the same theatre.
And FOR ,n nsnFly s. = as,i cep ne w Sss q very .l,sr yld.
time editor one Of a class who thought, that
readers TOOK newspaper in order 70 read edi,
his comedies. entitled She Would BE a Sol:
der" was written by him for the. benefit OF
t sif. G u *. s.sa; Fai:SH hssSs., and iaoiSsr
Of the late Recorder. IL proved TO be a
DR.. John Vy.keneid Francis. a scholarly
Sew York %-ociety. and his volume OF recol.
William Bristed. an English vicar who emf;
grated n this city shortly after the naval
peace and married a sas = g no,rS q The f5,t jS s..
dent. Hi son was Charles Aston Bris,ed.
who adorned literary circles in hi. city dur,
literary honors Of Sew York IS poets: Hal.
i sssf.S . fy td ,Se %ori rinsI' A. e, f ia, ~ ss Il5sssi
the Muse. BY night, He POLITICALLY collabo.
fn%ai5i ipsep poe nS' oi a I.as cui. h ri, F Pss""'
still n Knicterbockcr classic-was reonted to
Rookh,"". Nor NUT their ~yo''rntutnr;. :le
critic Willia'. l."Ry"it. cii'"r'i lie Irchry
p1It II 1t, ,aimy i,yr; b. i"r<o,'nn' NE ason wss
in tue political war against '!ayery. HIS
volume OF I've val Stories was ron-'lr among
James Fenimore Cooper was addicted To
spending winters in Now York, and WHEN not
enx.ssd in weaving plots toT 2 ne novel &C;
newspater critics OF his writings. John HOY
Ard Payne. after the sue,es. q biz opsrs.
1928. wherein he. inserted his lyric OF Home.
Sweet Home" be anne COR several years a
dSced a: the psFx Theatre a Sertsiniy no:S.
Robert Charles sands OF Knickerbocksr origin
and his uoem enti.lei "yamoyden." in tender
descriptions of lAhdseapcs and rural scenes
wurti and ye. who " this generation knows
OF that poem over which New Workers sixty
years ago went Into ecstasiesi Park Benia.
min. Sr.. was half q century or SO ago a IA
nous metropoli an writer and poet He
founded two evening newspapers. tie TdtN,sr
Nrr World and Wesiern CONTINENT. but. poet
like. he was not business man enough to make
any Of them live long; He Wa a popular
in satire and cBustlc epiRram.
William Leete Stone created literary land
tonished his scholastic admirers by pummel-
ling in the street: because o. an Insult.
The G"orr s' PGSe M RSTi a Mi.t Ns,ha SSi'f Parker sr$ nj:
armament Of, New York haifa century and
Willis because Of his c~o.combry, modelled on
that OF D!sraeli. and Morris because OF his
bpHhDWif. EaCh Ia MS DAY wa. a society
pet. and they might have. been termed New
Iork's poet laurestes. The Ishmael among the
writers Of their day was Rufus Wilnot Girls
void. hut hi. cynicism was so brilliant that de.
spite a fOrbidding couDienanc- and m Utah
Heepish manner. he was for years a feature Ia
name Hsm Of opr she n poe, Poe e' viii the ns sG 5nyT foe and md
author OF ..Annabel Lee" and The Raven"
Allan Poe became a pet OF New York literary
circles. Like John Keats he ,arried the risaee
taous manner 10 social intefcourse which was,
as LondOners-term IL. highly fetching" Con
temporary With Poe were Charles 7. Briegs
Harry Franco and the brothers DuycIinck
and Cornelius Mathews. who were also Literary
lions. Briggs did the humorous. the Duyck'
tic. Yet the novels written By the last, Puff.
fer HOPKINS" BIS Abel and Little" y an,
ha'tan:" and "Monsypenn'. Nth his sonnet.
were the. talk of the city half a century ago
are now forgotten.
ington avenue received the homage OF those
sho affected literary CONVEX saziones, and &C
did another sappho-like poetsss. Frances S. os
zonets thrilled New York society. and for
many winters. her song OF Call Ne Pc, Names
soprano young woman with a pisroforte. Tn,
portraits Of her gifted artist husband hang or
aisiyy pa .s siorSste' Ssfss /. read no S11 mo ms. eAau'
Then there were the brothers Lewis and WI
liz Clark, who edited the knicherboeke
'''V'~'', 'no ouSci III pVt ~
contributors Thomas Ward Flsccusi. his
cousin, sam. poet as well as gastrof oIle. the
critical Margaret Fuller, the novelist Richard
b. Kimball, and Ray Palmer whose exquisite
HYMN. beginning My Faith Looks To tc
Thee Is still sung.
William Pitt Palmer. who dreamed poetic
lines over his ledners as the bookkeeper OF
Wall street bank: Theodore Sedgwick Fay whit
wro's n novel OF New York life called. Nor
mar Leslie" and died Minister TO Berlin
Ralph -Hoyt. a ministerial poet: Henry WI
liam Herbert. a modern Simrod and lzaal
Walton In one body: William Cow per Prime
an E:l!a-like essaylst; that rip. Shakc-pcarcal
scholar. Gulian Crommclin Nerplanck; Prof
Edward Robinson, who had travelled In Pales
tine: John Lloyd Stephens. who had travelle,
in Central America: Caleb =. Henry and Fran
els ester Hawks, both literary churchm-n
Gee rye Ripley, one OF the most honorei tool
critics; lydia Maria Childs. who wrote letter,
from New York for "A Boston weekly; GeOrg
w. Bethune. the hymn writer and lover o
fishing: young Richard Grant White. ~auizZica
Fred CoZzens. the lovable NincenZio Botla
Herman Melville, and the unfortunate William
Ross Wallace all OF these erected NAM II,
erary, landmarks for the ohser' alton Of Knick
erbockers In the wears gone b.. Indeed. p
far rs contributors went. that old magazin
was well named the kHictsIhockfr
Next came into New Works literary circle
others like Fitz James O'Brien. Henry Clapu
Miles O'Reilly Halpinc. George Arnold, an,
Nathan Sheppard. And then came the war
and after the war. came we.