. The tourist's guide through the Empire state. Embracing all cities, towns and watering places, by Hudson river and New York central route . ame to find ahome, soon after his return to this country, in 1832, after anabsence of seventeen years from his native land, and having won aworld-wide fame for himself and for American literature. Atthat time Irving and Cooper were the only American authors whosenames were known in Europe. A bust of Irving was taken about this time by Mr. Ball Hughes,which has been considered by his friends a satisfactory colossal bust, by Macdonald, has been
. The tourist's guide through the Empire state. Embracing all cities, towns and watering places, by Hudson river and New York central route . ame to find ahome, soon after his return to this country, in 1832, after anabsence of seventeen years from his native land, and having won aworld-wide fame for himself and for American literature. Atthat time Irving and Cooper were the only American authors whosenames were known in Europe. A bust of Irving was taken about this time by Mr. Ball Hughes,which has been considered by his friends a satisfactory colossal bust, by Macdonald, has been ordered by a liberal citizen,for Prospect Park, Brooklyn, and bids fair to be a remarkable suc-cess, showing Mr. Irving as he was in mature age, ere his healthfailed. Is it not time that our beautiful Central Park, which has beenlong ornamented with a bust of Schiller, should possess a sculp-tured memorial of Irving and Cooper ? One of Mr. Irvingsvisitors at the Roost—afterwards re-christened Sunnyside—wasa young foreigner, then boarding in New York at the popular hotelwhich stood on the site of Stewarts down-town store. This guest. MINUITS PURCHASE OF THE ISLAND OF MANHATTAN. THE TOURISTS GUIDE. 25 has since been known as Emperor Napoleon III., and as the manof Sedan. It does not appear that the horoscope of the youth wascast at the cottage, or that his future elevation and downfall wereeven guessed at there. In 1853, however, Mr. Irving wrote thussignificantly: Napoleon and Eugenie, Emperor and Empress!The one I have had as a guest at my cottage, the other I haveheld as a pet child upon my knee in Granada. The last I saw ofEugenie Montijo, she was one of the reigning belles of Madrid;and she and her giddy circle had swept away my charming friend,the beautiful and accomplished , into their career of fashion-able dissipation. Now, Eugenie is upon the throne, and ■ is a voluntary recluse in a convent of one of the most rigorous ! Perhaps, however, her fate may
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