The century illustrated monthly magazine . ENGRAVED BY H. WOLF. THE ANNUNCIATION TO THE SHEPHERDS, BY J. BASTIEN LEPAGE. THE T was the opinion ofthe most observanttraveler I ever knewthat no city in Christ-endom possesses astreet comparablewith the Bowery inNew York city. Hiscomment on the Bow-ery was that it is theonly noble and important thoroughfare whichis foreign to the city and country that possessit. I think it is the belief of nearly all traveledAmericans that the Bowery is the most interest-ing thoroughfare in America. If there are anywho are inclined to dispute the belief, i
The century illustrated monthly magazine . ENGRAVED BY H. WOLF. THE ANNUNCIATION TO THE SHEPHERDS, BY J. BASTIEN LEPAGE. THE T was the opinion ofthe most observanttraveler I ever knewthat no city in Christ-endom possesses astreet comparablewith the Bowery inNew York city. Hiscomment on the Bow-ery was that it is theonly noble and important thoroughfare whichis foreign to the city and country that possessit. I think it is the belief of nearly all traveledAmericans that the Bowery is the most interest-ing thoroughfare in America. If there are anywho are inclined to dispute the belief, it willrepay them to consider the Bowery even moreclosely than did my friend who called it foreignto its country, for he supposed it to be a Ger-man street in America. It is largely German,but it is much else besides, and the more it isstudied the more cosmopolitan it will seem,and the more peculiarities it will reveal. In endeavoring to compare it with someother crowded, humming, Babylonish arteryof petty commerce and jostling human surplus-age, the mind turns to the Strand in it does not rest there, for though the S
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