New York in fiction . greater and more holdinga charm than the debtors prison of the163 NUW YORK IN FICTION Marshalsea. To the normal well-dressedLondoner residing, let us say, somewherein Hammersmith or the neighbourhoodof St. Johns Wood, the vast region over the river means something alittle mysterious and weird. Blot outthat part of Paris which lies over theriver, and the loss to literature wouldbe infinitely more far-reaching. Therelie the streets trod by Messieurs Atlios,Porthos, Aramis, and DArtagnan, thescenes of one-half of what is greatestin the CoDtedie Huwaine of Jean Valjeansskulki
New York in fiction . greater and more holdinga charm than the debtors prison of the163 NUW YORK IN FICTION Marshalsea. To the normal well-dressedLondoner residing, let us say, somewherein Hammersmith or the neighbourhoodof St. Johns Wood, the vast region over the river means something alittle mysterious and weird. Blot outthat part of Paris which lies over theriver, and the loss to literature wouldbe infinitely more far-reaching. Therelie the streets trod by Messieurs Atlios,Porthos, Aramis, and DArtagnan, thescenes of one-half of what is greatestin the CoDtedie Huwaine of Jean Valjeansskulking pilgriuiages, of the light loves,the foHrheries, the poignant sufferings ofMurgers men and women. The Thamesand the Seine! Both are pregnant withliterary significance. We have tworivers; but our novelists seem to findno inspiration in studying them by lightor dark; our poets dont pipe their littlelays over their darkness, their mystery,their tragedy, their treachery, their si-lence. For the over the river in New164. THE BERKELEY. — K. H. IJAVIS. NEW YORK IN FICTION York fiction we must rely on the not far from the river on the Brook-lyn side, near to the Sands Street gate ofthe Navy Yard, is a series of little alleysquite as dirty, as picturesque, as rich insuggestion as the alleys of Dickenss Lon-don. Again might be pointed out FortLee and the Sound side of Staten Island,with the looming chimneys of ConstableHook. Years ago, in one of those juve-nile publications then the source of end-less delight, appeared serially a story ofwhich the mise-en-sceue was on board acanal-boat which lay at anchor in theBay of Growanus. Gowanus! There isone reader at least to whom the sight orsound of that word still thrills and charms— by whom that early impression of dark-ness and gloom shall never be forgotten. II. MADISON SQUARE —THE BERKELEY —MANHATTAN CLUB — POVERTY FLAT Of recent years Madison Square seemsto have an influence over the novelists165 NEW YOBK IN FICTIO
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