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Title: New York in fiction
Year: 1901 (1900s)
Authors: Maurice, Arthur Bartlett, 1873-1946
Subjects: New York (N.Y.) -- In literature Novelists, American -- Homes and haunts New York (State) New York American fiction -- New York (State) New York History and criticism New York (N.Y.) -- Intellectual life
Publisher: New York, Dodd, Mead and company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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treet, was the one-room law office of Peter — afterwardthe Honourable Peter — Stirling. At theDuane Street corner, adjoining thegrounds of the New York Hospital, was 31 NEW YORK IN FICTION the eigar-8tore of John Anderson, whichEdgar AHan Poes story of The Mysteryof Marie Roget assured a permanent placeamong the scenes of New York fiction. III. PARK now IN FICTION Park Row in fiction has a twofold sig-nificance and interest. In the first place,the Row and the adjacent streets arehallowed by the literary and histrionicmemories of the past. Here, where thenew Park Row Syndicate Buildingstands, was the old Park Theatre, thescene of the triumphs of Edmund Kean,Sinclair, C-ooke, Young, Charles Kemble,Tyrone Power, Ellen Tree, Fanny Kem-ble, Emma Wheatley, Clara Fisher, Ju-nius Brutus Booth, J. W. Wallack, Johnand Charles Mason, Charlotte Cushman.These pavements were trod by Irving,Poe, Halleck, Cozzens, Du Chaillu,Harry Franco, Brougham, Hoffman,Morris; and Clark passed many a night 32
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NEW YORK IN FICTION on the benches in the Park opposite.Later, it has belonged to EdmnndClarence Stedman, George William Cur-tis, William Curtis, William Dean How-ells, Richard Henry Stoddard and to theyoung and middle-aged poets and novel-ists of the present day. In the secondplace, as a background, as a part, a phase,of the Human Comedy of New York life,it is beginning to have a meaning. True,we have had nothing descriptive of thelife comparable to Balzacs analytic andterrible arraignment of Paris journalismin Illusions Perdues, or even to the chap-ters dealing with the life of Fleet Streetand the Fleet Prison in Pendennis. Thestories of Park Row life have not gonevery far below the surface, but two orthree young newspaper men and at leastone newspaper woman have written verycleverly and entertainingly of beatsand sticks and copy-readers and cub reporters and star men. Then,too, there are the lady novelists, to 35 NFW YORK IN FICTION whom the Row is as useful as it is vague,who find

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