To-day the sentimental traveller 'feels a
heart-pang to see the order, the cleanliness, the wide
streets, the playgrounds, the big boulevards, the absence of
indigence that have spoiled the most interesting part of New
York City.' But apparently this is only a first impression;
for Mr. Huneker had no trouble in discovering in one cafe a
patriarchal figure quite of the type beloved of the local-
color hunters of twenty years ago, a prophet, though speaking
a modern language and concerned with things of the day. So
that we owe to Mr. Huneker the discovery of a notable truth,
namely, that Bohemia is not only a creation of the sentimental
memory, but, being psychological, may be located in clean and
prosperous quarters. The tendency has always been to place it
in a golden age, but a tattered and unswept age. Bohemia is
now shown to exist amidst model tenements and sanitary
drinking-cups."
IVORY APES AND PEACOCKS
With frontispiece portrait of Dostoievsky
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THE PATHOS of DISTANCE
A Book of a Thousand and One Moments
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