| CHAPTER | | PAGE | | I. | Writers of New Amsterdam | 1 | | II. | Before the Revolution | 25 | | III. | The Poet of the Revolution | 45 | | IV. | In the Days of Thomas Paine | 67 | | V. | The City that Irving Knew | 87 | | VI. | With Paulding, Drake, and Halleck | 106 | | VII. | Cooper and his Friends | 125 | | VIII. | Those who Gathered about Poe | 145 | | IX. | At the Close of the Knickerbocker Days | 167 | | X. | Half a Century ago | 189 | | XI. | Two Famous Meeting-Places | 209 | | XII. | Some of the Writers of To-Day | 230 |
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