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Lights and Shadows of New York Life or, the Sights and Sensations of the Great City By: James Dabney McCabe (1842-1883) |
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This ebook was transcribed by Les Bowler. LIGHTS AND SHADOWS OF NEW YORK LIFE;
OR, THE SIGHTS AND SENSATIONS OF A GREAT CITY.
BY JAMES D. MCCABE, JR. [Picture: GENERAL VIEW OF NEW YORK CITY.] [Picture: GRAND CENTRAL RAILWAY DEPOT.] [Picture: TITLE PAGE.] LIGHTS AND SHADOWS
OF NEW YORK LIFE;
OR, THE
SIGHTS AND SENSATIONS
OF
THE GREAT CITY. A WORK DESCRIPTIVE OF THE
CITY OF NEW YORK IN ALL ITS VARIOUS PHASES; WITH FULL AND GRAPHIC ACCOUNTS OF ITS SPLENDORS AND WRETCHEDNESS; ITS HIGH AND LOW LIFE;
ITS MARBLE PALACES AND DARK DENS; ITS ATTRACTIONS AND
DANGERS; ITS RINGS AND FRAUDS; ITS LEADING MEN
AND POLITICIANS; ITS ADVENTURERS; ITS CHARITIES;
ITS MYSTERIES, AND ITS CRIMES. BY JAMES D. MCCABE, JR., AUTHOR OF "PARIS BY SUNLIGHT AND GASLIGHT," "HISTORY OF THE WAR BETWEEN
GERMANY AND
FRANCE," "GREAT FORTUNES," "THE GREAT REPUBLIC," ETC., ETC. ILLUSTRATED WITH NUMEROUS FINE ENGRAVINGS OF NOTED PLACES, LIFE
AND SCENES IN NEW YORK. Issued by subscription only, and not for sale in the book stores.
Residents of any State desiring
a copy should address the Publishers, and an Agent will call upon them.
See page 851. NATIONAL PUBLISHING COMPANY, PHILADELPHIA, PA.; CINCINNATI, OHIO; CHICAGO, ILL.; ST. LOUIS, MO. Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1872, by
J. R. JONES,
In the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington, D.C.
PREFACE.
It is the desire of every American to see New York, the largest and most
wonderful city in the Union. To very many the city and its attractions
are familiar, and the number of these persons is increased by thousands
of new comers every year. A still greater number, however, will know the
Great City only by the stories that reach them through their friends and
the newspapers. They may never gaze upon its beauties, never enjoy its
attractions in person. For their benefit I have written these pages, and
I have endeavored to present to them a faithful picture of the "Lights
and Shadows" of the life of this City, and to describe its "Sights and
Sensations" as they really exist. This Great City, so wonderful in its beauty, so strange to eyes
accustomed only to the smaller towns of the land, is in all respects the
most attractive sight in America, and one of the most remarkable places
in the world, ranking next to London and Paris in the extent and variety
of its attractions. Its magnificence is remarkable, its squalor
appalling. Nowhere else in the New World are seen such lavish displays
of wealth, and such hideous depths of poverty. It is rich in historical
associations and in treasures of art. It presents a wonderful series of
combinations as well as contrasts of individual and national
characteristics. It is richly worth studying by all classes, for it is
totally different from any other city in the world. It is always fresh,
always new. It is constantly changing, growing greater and more
wonderful in its power and splendors, more worthy of admiration in its
higher and nobler life, more generous in its charities, and more
mysterious and appalling in its romance and its crimes. It is indeed a
wonderful city. Coming fresh from plainer and more practical parts of
the land, the visitor is plunged into the midst of so much beauty,
magnificence, gayety, mystery, and a thousand other wonders, that he is
fairly bewildered. It is hoped that the reader of these pages will be by
their perusal better prepared to enjoy the attractions, and to shun the
dangers of New York... Continue reading book >>
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