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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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d on a roll ofnewspapers byLeonore andWattsDAlloi. 39 NEW YORK IN FICTION After laying aside Jesse Lynch Wil-liamss stories of newspaper life, onevery natnrally tnrns to Miss ElizabethJordans admirable Tales of the CityBoom. With one exception all the storieswhich make np Miss Jordans books hadthe office of the New York World forbackground. The author was with thatnewspaper for ten years, doing editorialwork in various departments. Many ofthe stories are entirely true. For in-stance, one of the strongest of all, MissVan Dykes Best Story, which told of ashy, demure young newspaper womanwho, inspired by the sheer horror and nov-elty of the thing, wrote a most wonderfuland unfortunate description of the hideous-ness of an election night in the Tender-loin district, really happened just as wastold, with the exception of the love inci-dent at the end. The heroine is a young-lady now on the staff of the Journal. Chesterfield, Junior, says Miss Jor-dan, is a live small boy who looked very 40
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NEW YORK IN FICTION like the description I gave of him, andwhose manners were a dehght to theentire staff. He is still at work, and isnow wrestling with an ambition to be amanaging editor some day. A rather striking recent book that isclosely linked with this part of New Yorkis Mr. Irving Bachelors Ehen Holdcn,of which several very graphic chapterstreat of the old Tribune office in thedays of Horace Greeley. In finding forhis hero a home in New York, Mr.Bachelor has preserved in fiction one ofthe quaintest of all its quaint corners.The Monkey Hill of the period of thestory was at a point which is now over-shadowed by one of the arches of theBrooklyn Bridge. It has to-day a prac-tical existence, but its identity has longbeen lost. At the time of the outbreakof the War of Secession, there were someneat and cleanly looking houses on itof wood and brick and brownstone, in-habited by small tradesmen; a few shops, 43 NEW YORK IN FICTION a big stable, and the chalet sitting on abroad. Hat ro

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