Literary New York . ked, so often nothoroughfare, so winding that theyseem to be seeking out the old farm-houses which they ; .d to in earlyday/^ there is a pretty little play-gr< d for children. This HudsonPark is an open spot with greenlawns and marble -jralks and a talliron fence surrounding it ; quite a / 146 Those Who Gathered about Poe model park with everything aboutfresh, and new, and modern. It isso very new and so very heat and sovery clean that one would not lookthere for old-time flavor. But curi-ously enough one thing about itseems out of tone. On the greenlawn is a monument ol
Literary New York . ked, so often nothoroughfare, so winding that theyseem to be seeking out the old farm-houses which they ; .d to in earlyday/^ there is a pretty little play-gr< d for children. This HudsonPark is an open spot with greenlawns and marble -jralks and a talliron fence surrounding it ; quite a / 146 Those Who Gathered about Poe model park with everything aboutfresh, and new, and modern. It isso very new and so very heat and sovery clean that one would not lookthere for old-time flavor. But curi-ously enough one thing about itseems out of tone. On the greenlawn is a monument old and fadedn an effort to match it with?^.kS natty surroundings, has been setupon a base of glistening white mar-ble. The monument is a sort of keyfor the antiquarian, for without it thisplayground in its spick-and-span new-ness might not be readily identifiedas the old St. Johns Burying-Gromid,where once stood the accumulatedtombstones of morethan fourscor years,until they were sweptaway %and buried V.*as deep as. Literary New York whose memories they marked, A newgeneration tramples in and romps overthe new park, with no knowledge orthought of what is below the surface,le graveyard of St. Johns was a]iet, restful place in a quiet, restful>cality in the year 1837, when EdgarAllan Poe had a habit of wanderingthrough it. In that year Poe livedwithin a few steps of the burial-ground in a modest wooden housethat was numbered 113 CarmineStreet. He was then in his twenty-eighth year, had published three vol-umes of poems, and had written someshort stories and criticisms. He hadbut just given up the editorship ofthe Southern Literary Messenger atRichmond, a position he had securedthrough the friendship of John PKennedy, who had been his friend inhis early struggles in Baltimore andwho was to continue a friend to himthrough all his life. In 1832 Poe had Those Who Gathered about Poe first met him, when Kennedy waswriting Swallow Barn. AfterwardsKennedy wrote Horseshoe Robinsonand ot
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