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New York Sketches

Jesse Lynch Williams

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. . .n perspective, they are fine, with a strong, manly beauty all their own. It is the same as with the young nation; we have grown up so fast and so far that some of our traits, when considered alone, may seem displeasing, but they appear less so when we are viewed as a whole and from the right point of view.


New New York. Not a stone's throw farther up ... the towering white city of the new century.
(Between South Ferry and the Bridge.)

Or, on the other hand, for scenes not representatively commercial, nor residential either in the sense that Riverside10 is, but more of the sort that the word "picturesque" suggests to most people: There are all those odd nooks and corners, here and there up one river and down the other, popping out upon you with unexpected vistas full of life and color. Somehow the old town does not change so fast about its edges as back from the water. It seems to take a longer time to slough off the old landmarks.

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