's "A History of Travel in America," Miss Henderson's "A
Loiterer in New York," William Allen Butler's "A Retrospect of Forty
Years," Fremont Rider's "New York City," Francis Gerry Fairfield's "The
Clubs of New York," Anna Alice Chapin's "Greenwich Village," Theodore
Wolff's "Literary Haunts and Homes," Rupert Hughes's "The Real New
York," James Grant Wilson's "Thackeray in the United States," Mrs.
Burton Harrison's "Recollections, Grave and Gay," Abram C. Dayton's
"Last Days of Knickerbocker Life in New York," and Martha J. Lamb's
"History of the City of New York." Also various articles in the
magazines and newspapers.

CONTENTS

CHAPTER Page

I THE SHADOW OF THE KNICKERBOCKERS 1

II THE STRETCH OF TRADITION 29

III A KNICKERBOCKER PEPYS 41

IV GLIMPSES OF THE SIXTIES 60

V FOURTEENTH TO MADISON SQUARE 78

VI SOME GREAT DAYS ON THE AVENUE 100

VII SOME AVENUE CLUBS IN THE EARLY DAYS 125

VIII LITERARY LANDMARKS AND FIGURES 150

IX FIFTH AVENUE IN FICTION 165

X TRAILS OF BOHEMIA 183

XI THE SLOPE OF MURRAY HILL 199

XII CONFESSIONS OF AN EXILED BUS 211

XIII A POST-KNICKERBOCKER PETRONIUS 226

XIV THE CREST OF MURRAY HILL 244

XV GIANT STRIDES OF COMMERCE 255

XVI BEYOND MURRAY HILL 266

XVII APPROACHING THE PLAZA 285

XVIII STRETCHES OF THE AVENUE 297

XIX MINE HOST ON THE AVENUE 312

ILLUSTRATIONS

"Massive and splendidly Gothic is St. Thomas's. The church
dates from 1825. In 1867 the present site was secured,
and the brown-stone edifice of the early seventies was for
nearly two generations the ultra-fashionable Episcopal
church of the city" Frontispiece

FACING PAGE

The Washington Arch. A splendid sentinel guarding the
approach to the Avenue. Beyond, houses dating from the
thirties of the last century, that mark the beginning of the
Stretch of Tradition 14

At the northeast corner of the Avenue and Te