Last Days of Knickerbocker Life in New York (Classic Reprint)
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| Hersteller: | Forgotten Books (Dayton, Abram C.) |
| Stand: | 2015-08-04 03:50:33 |
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Excerpt from Last Days of Knickerbocker Life in New York A decade has well high passed since the following pages were penned, They will be perused now with added interest, for their author bade farewell to earth in August, 1877, and is sleeping by his father´s side in Greenwood. The last few years of his life were spent in retirement. His impaired health of body found relaxation in intellectual employment, and many will remember how inexhaustible was the fund of anecdote and pleasant humor, with which he was wont to entertain the household circle, concerning "New York forty years ago." It would seem as though these talks of other days awakened congenial memories, for when he died, there was discovered a neatly rolled manuscript - now unfolded to the public, letter for letter and line for line, just as he wrote and left it. He was witness to the scenes described, and contemporary with the events detailed. Such of his "troops of friends" whose eyes may meet these pictures of the past, will recall the courtly manner, the amiable, sparkling flow of cultured conversation, the graceful modesty and unreserved honesty which charmed, attracted and won all who came within his environment of him may be said, in the words of the master limner of human characteristics: "A sweeter and a lovelier gentleman, Framed in the prodigality of nature; The spacious world cannot again afford. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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