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CATALOGUE. A catalogue of all the books in the department is open to the public on week days from 9 a. m. to 5 p. m. in room 100, Central Building. The arrangement of branches, with the exception of the Central Building, is from south to north in Manhattan and The Bronx. * Occupying Carnegie Buildings. NEW NEW YORK BEFORE THE REVOLUTION TEW YORK was still a small place for many years after the probable date of this picture. In 1752, writes Theodore Roosevelt in his biography of Gouverneur Morris, New York "was a thriving little trading town, whose people in summer suffered much from the mosquitoes that came back with the cows when they were driven home at nightfall for milking; while from among the locusts and water-beeches that lined the pleasant, quiet streets, the tree frogs sang so shrilly through the long, hot evenings that a man in speaking could hardly make himself heard.' THE NEW BOOKS new HE list of books begins on page 155. Two of the especially interesting books are mentioned near the head of the list. Arnold Bennett's "The Author's Craft" is a refreshing and vigorous treatment of a subject about which a good deal of nonsense is uttered. Mr. MacGregor Jenkins, of the "Atlantic Monthly" has written an amusing essay called "The Reading Public." The volume by Stephen Graham, entitled "With Poor Immigrants to America" contains many readable passages, and the subject is, of course, of the highest importance. Professor W. M. Sloane's "Party Government in the United States" is the work of an acknowledged authority. Under the heading of Science is named "The Human Side of Plants" by Royal Dixon. A strictly scientific botanist would, perhaps, smile a little at some of its contents, but the average reader is almost sure to find the book readable and certainly very curious. It is attracti ely illustrated. The note following Duchêne's "Flight Without Formulae" describes its contents. W. P. Eaton's "Barn Doors and Byways" is the work of a writer who makes every subject he treats seem entertaining and important, and whose skilful literary touch never fails. Professor Brander Matthews has a new book "On Acting," while Northend's "Historic Homes of New England," and Rose's "Cathedrals and Cloisters of Northern France" will please those readers who enjoy descriptions of the art and architecture of the past. Mr. Lucas's "Annual" contains sketches and poems by many of the liveliest writers of today. Its contents are given in the note following the title. Emily Dickinson's "The Single Hound" is another volume of verse by one of the strangest and most elusive poets of America. Witter Bynner's "The Little King" is a play in verse, about the illfated Dauphin. Foord's "England Invaded" deals with past history. Monroe's "Bulgaria and Her People" is a timely book, and so is F. L. Bullard's description of a vanished occupation in his "Famous War Correspondents." Topham's "Memories of the Kaiser's Court" is the work of a former English governess to the daughter of the German Emperor. Its description of the Emperor and Empress, and of the little princess who is now the Duchess of Brunswick are friendly and pleasing. ITS BOOKS ABOUT NEW YORK TS littleness is past," says Mr. E. S. Martin, writing of New York City*, "and thanks to its habit of tearing down to rebuild, the best part of it is not as old as it was a century ago; but it is still delightful; only now it is wonderful rather than charming, a marvelous city that people's eyes pop out over. It changes and develops and shoots up and stretches out so fast that habitual residents find new marvels for their own eyes every time they show the town to a visitor, and visitors who come not more than twice a year find unfamiliar new features at every visit.....” "New York is the metropolis of a jealous and disparaging country that seldom has anything very good to say of it. Practically the country seems to take pleasure in it; reads about it continually for it is the greatest contribution of news to the papers; visits it when it can and enjoys the visits; is amused with its shows and interested in its hotels, shops, parks, streets, tall buildings, rivers, bridges, slums, tunnels and people. It pays it a constant tribute of attention and spends money in it according to its means, but it seldom shows pride in it, or speaks any better of it than it can help. Perhaps when Kansas goes to Europe (as it does abundantly) it brags a little about New York as an American product, and the greatestcity-to-be in all the world. Perhaps, in Europe, Kansas declares that Fifth Avenue is a street to make the old world wipe its glasses, and that the rivers of New York surpass all rivers in their combination of natural beauties and man-made wonders... But at home Kansas is apt to see in New York a greedy city, wrapped up in itself, incredulous of Western wisdom, inhospitable to 'broad American ideas', perched on the shore of the Atlantic Ocean and careless of the great land behind it except as a vast productive area from which it draws endless wealth." Books about New York, - histories and descriptions, antiquarian ramblings and musings, novels and tales descriptive of New York in days long past, in days still recent, and in days of the present, are given on the next two pages. The librarians will tell you of others. Ask for a copy of a list called "New York City and the Development of Trade." It is given away free. Many of the titles and notes in this list are taken from it. In "The Wayfarer in New York." Published by The Macmillan Company. BOOKS ABOUT NEW YORK Annals of Old Manhattan, by Julia M. Colton. Period: 1609-1664. Bow of Orange Ribbon, by Amelia E. Barr. A story of Dutch residents of New York and of English soldiers. Children of the Tenements, by Jacob A. Riis. In part fiction and in part sociological studies. Author also wrote "How the Other Half Lives." Colonial Days in Old New York, by Alice Morse Earle. Days of childhood, courtship and marriage, housekeeping, holidays, sports and amusements, crimes and punishments, in the New York of two centuries ago. Dutch Founding of New York, by T. A. Janvier. The illustrations have been redrawn from old prints. Dutch New York, by Esther Singleton. About the orchards and gardens of New Amsterdam, the costume of its people, their servants and slaves, their taverns and Sunday liquor laws, sports, festivals, and pastimes. Four Million, by "O. Henry" (Sydney Porter.) One of several volumes of short stories by the same author, all about New York. The most up-to-date pictures of the City in fiction. Gallegher, by Richard Harding Davis. Short stories of newspaper work and social life in New York. Goede Vrouw of Mana-ha-ta, by Mrs. J. K. Van Rensselaer. Describes the life, amusements, and social customs of Dutch New York. Period: 1609-1760. Contains much about the women of the time, but touches upon many aspects of early New York. Golden House, by Charles Dudley War ner. This is a sequel to "A Little Journey in the World." The two books constitute a picture of New York social life. Greatest Street in the World, by Stephen Jenkins. "The story of Broadway,, old and new, from the Bowling Green to Albany." Historic New York, by M. W. Goodwin and others. Twenty-four short articles. "The monographs do not attempt to give any connected history... but to present authentic accounts of localities of special interest, and to describe the features peculiar to the life of the olden time in New Amsterdam and early New York." History of New York, by_“Diedrich Knickerbocker" (Washington Irving.) The famous comic history, mingling fact and fiction. Contains many satirical sketches of the early Dutch inhabitants, which actually offended some of their living descendants. Honorable Peter Stirling, by Paul Leicester Ford. Perhaps the best story of American politics ever written. Scene: New York City. A New York politician read it with delight, exclaiming: "Isn't it all damn so?" House of Mirth, by Edith Wharton. "The sad career of a beautiful moneyless girl in plutocratic New York." In Old New York, by T. A. Janvier. Historical sketches describing the growth of certain localities. Landmark History of New York, by Albert Ulmann. Told in the form of conversations with three children as they visit the historic places of New York. Tells the origin of street names. Last Days of Knickerbocker Life in New York, by Abram C. Dayton. New York in one of the quaintest and most curious periods in its history, 1830. Last of the Knickerbockers, by H. K. Vielé. A story of the present, describing the life of some New Yorkers of Dutch ancestry. Told with the deft and charming touches which mark all the writings of this author. Literary New York, by Charles Hemstreet. Begins with "Writers of New Amsterdam" and ends with "Some Writers of Today.' Maid of Maiden Lane, by Amelia E. Barr. The year 1791 in New York. Midge, by H. C. Bunner. "There has probably never been a novel written that is so drenched with the spirit of Washington Square as 'The Midge'." My Summer Acre, by John Flavel Mines. In the volume with his "Tour Around New York." "My summer acre fronts upon the East River, near the spot where the waters of Hell Gate begin to seethe and swirl... The house is as old as our second war with Great Britain. It was built for the summer residence of a family whose city mansion was then in the neighborhood of the Bowling Green." New Amsterdam and its People, by J. H. Innes. Studies, social and topographical, of the town under Dutch and English rule. Illustrated with old prints, portraits, and maps. New New York, by John C. Van Dyke. "A commentary on the place and the people." Illustrated in color and in black and white by Joseph Pennell. Published in 1909. New York in Fiction, by Arthur Bartlett Maurice. The scenes which novelists and writers of short stories have chosen to depict. Illustrated with photographs. New York: Old and New, by Rufus Rockwell Wilson. "Its story, streets, and landmarks." Old Boston Post Road, by Stephen Jenkins. History of the oldest post road from New York to Boston. The first post rider went over it in 1673. Old Buildings of New York City, by W. F. Mott. Illustrated sketches of historic buildings. Outlines in Local Color, by Brander Matthews. Stories and sketches of life in New York. Reminiscences of an Octogenarian, by C. H. Haswell. New York from 1816 to 1860. Social New York under the Georges, by Esther Singleton. Period: 1714-1776. Houses, streets, country homes, fashions, furniture, china, plate, and man ners. Stolen Story, by Jesse L. Williams. Short stories of newspaper experiences in New York. Story of a New York House, by H. C. Bunner. The house is Number 7 State Street. Story of a Street, by F. T. Hill. A narrative history of Wall Street from 1644 to 1908. Story of Manhattan, by Charles Hem street. Story of the City of New York, by Charles Burr Todd. History from the earliest times to 1897. Tour Around New York, by John Flavel Mines. "The record of a random tour through places whose acquaintance I made as a boy, that recall the people of other days whom I have known." The volume includes "My Summer Acre." Van Bibber, and Others, by Richard Harding Davis. Short stories of New York. Vignettes of Manhattan, by Brander Matthews. Sketches and stories of the City. Wayfarer in New York. by E. S. Martin. Introduction A collection of brief prose articles and poems about the city. The authors include dozens of writers, such as Bryant, Whitman, Dickens, Irving, Stedman, Bunner, and Marion Crawford. A very enjoyable little book. When Old New York was Young, by Charles Hemstreet. Its contents include: The Autobiography of Bowling Green; Christmas in Old New Amsterdam; Old Time Theatres; The Pleasant Days of Cherry Hill. |