The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-11-21

Maria Child, who during her residence in this
s SoIta fed s soTSSS1 S1ssSas s %SiaS w was % s%sss.
By that VERY fsstidious New York publisher.
PATE PARK benjamin 3 during the latter r~ortios played
an important part in the Manhattan literary
street, he NJ had a weekly y sal salon "a and a0u sspd
parties. He also, like Byron, had q club foot,
erai society. Perhaps his best contribution TO
the Brosd ,o X JaGRs s : If was Rroa 2 playful q, lyric
street in his day between Canal and Union
square was a famous afternoon promenade. In
connection with Henry C.Watson incompatible
sseffc, which was undoservedly short lived.
oonpanion, probably saw without surprise in
Il one day a sonnet by Horace Greeley. Thus It
TO A PORTRAIT OF A LADY,.
I have not known thee. lazy, yet ween
We are not 3s wholly S,i s ira Ssns,, Ti% %SI has f iaid
The cheek OF beauty and life's springtime green.
have not met thee In the gaudy maze
or fashion. fool, and Mam%Sn.s eager slaves
The good. the true. that light our evil days,
Brings thee in life before me: radiant curls
Curtain THY %peartlike temples, and that brow
OF thy ssoaIp!speaEins eyesi All. fancy fun.
Her eagle wing. She has come back to theel
II such the artists form, oh. what must nature beP
About the same time young Thomas Dunn
English started q New York magazine called
tho dristidedn. but 1t did not succeed. -drc-
magazine, edited by ,EvSrt A. Dnyckinck and
Cornelius Matthew'S. In 1t the former, who has
sSSn p mailed %eriti thi e A%sri' and h the latter w wSo
novel entitled a.Puflor Hopkins" After DuyGk.
1t failed to become a fixed star, and Joined In
tho fate of three other ventures.,the Corsair,
John Inman. later an editor Of the Erenfng
Conimercfai. was conductor, and the Rorer, OF
editors on their removal from Portland.
Among the New Workers of half a century ago
s MhS witt Wiiiiam d 4. i iS0sS ,Ions librarian %s " c % ne:
Gary Gia o ions P're sRS { Of 1PP .Rss p SSsssSs'i bank hs TRS
Ward, who signed himself .lFlaccus,", and CON
tributcd dainty, verse to the knfckerbockcr
d der was then a ne far iG Spto Mn's on west eSs a Fo nis tSSl:
cnth street, in a row placed far back, from the
s taised and a sm Mihh tE EsatfsnSf for in am frShs; ne per %s1n:
where he received ]SsspirlnF New York writer's
being. tho former introduced. to the literary
his his S # aG% r0f Pap sSstf' William MfIiaa% Henry aalrlS' H Miri
bert, and Sam Ward. Early in tho fortIos
e GsGr Ged H: HRGu Il! mSons. n %So " d asSt4 two OF y s1Tin nsc
as curator of the Lenox Library, both seniors in
the New York University, initiated for only one
erdrV Messenger to which Taylor Lewis, the
Greek scholar; Loomis, the astronomer; Will
! .as G A1 Benedict Sss.e The i iesFne q SiSs!ssasn and rf Il:
fred Wheeler contributed. Mr.. Houghton HIM
s Hadis sgP gnn, po much c1 p1sSnsips SsrS %,,,i To The M'
Snowden, Charlotte Cushman contributed both
prose and poetry, all lanentable stuff, but re-
looking, picturesque with his clustering hair
There We're two mad poets who initiated Poe.
One was Sumner Lincoln Fairfield, and the
e erneF H sSlE@hesl a GlaFf he d other one %ss hanrted
square of moonlight nights. Here is a qua.
train from the former:
Midnight waned in the ebon sky;
The deep blue vault of heaven was still
save the w warning ;S soq 9iSnG 81 al an z ange bSS cry
And here q couplet from Mcdonald Clarke:
Night pulled her sable curtain down
And pinned 1t with a star.
At this era an editorial in ono of the dailiel
said: I'VE have seen of late with no small sat
strong and decided indications of literary taste.
And al the whilo publishers, and weekly news
papers and recently founded Sunday Journal
lone with the classic name Of aurora, com
peted with one another for installments o
romance5 or stories from Biackrood's Maya
zine. Fenimorc Cooper, Sinms, and Cathe
rine' Scdgwisk We're Meanwhile keeping up thu
Jonas b. Phillips, who was Assistant District
Attorney; furnished a sensational melodrams
Commerce took his chief to task for allowing
subordinate appointed to keep tho peace ant
daunted. Charles Burdett. the Mayors secre
The great New York critic of the half century
ago was Henry T. Tuckerman. whose analyti
cal essays when collected into a volume made
him famous. even in London. He was also M
approved sonnet writer and n lion at CONVEX
saziones. Authoresscs Increased in number
One of the most beautiful women this city
who wrote amatory verse and sentimental
songs TO be sung al concerts. The sister poet
snug cottage in Irving place. received homage
for verse which George Ripley, of the I!i6un,
pronounced equal to that of Caroline Norton
over whom London was then raving as the sue
cessor of the melancholy 81. +. L." Mrs. Anr
$. stephens, from her Cottage place villa, was
7. $. Arthur of Philadelphia. Margaret Fuller
and Caroline Da P0nte, as nuthorcsscs. were
pctted by society. Clement Moore remained Z
since he wrote Twas the Night Before
Nmas." John James Audubon was c~onspicu
Gus by reason of his wonderful pictures and
lure. Tho Rev. Edward Robinson, lately re
turned from Palestine TO be professor in the
new, Union Theological Seminary. who had
another literary lion. So was Orville Dewey
an Unitarian preacher and writer Of polished
Il would not live Away" with music by
Thomas Hastings. was sung in many n choir.
Another society lion then was John Lloyd Ste
mysterious regions of Central America. An
other literary lion was Signor notta, an Italian
exile, whose bride. as Anne Charlotte Lynch
GrahGm's MGoa=imr~shc dainty beauty of tht
lily order and he II very clcgant;looking Fra
Diayolo. There was IA Bohemian literary set
pine Miles O'Reillyl, James Parton, William
Ross Wallace, and Augustus pugannc.
CAUSES OF POTERTY.