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fallen into decay. No other American city knew a tithe of such distress for country's sake, or gathered into its annals such store of various memories meanwhile - tragical, humorous, pathetic, romantic-as fills the pages of New York's history for those stirring years ; battles over the ground where her new quarters are now rising ; .. retreats, captures, evasions, daring personal exploits, horrors of prison-ships, and every kind of moving incident, from Howe's unlucky delay over Mrs. Murray's Madeira' to the tragedy of Nathan Hale. And even now the city's soil is sown with relics of blockhouses and Revolutionary earthworks as reminders of some of these things.

Then came British evacuation and Washington's triumphal entry, followed almost at once by New York's . astonishing revival, and opening of her famous career of prosperity and precedency. Soon afterwards followed Washington's inauguration and residence in New York, with the beginnings of the new government in the midst of the rising city. Surely there is no need for us to envy our neighbors such tales as they may claim and own of " the great days of old."

Of New York's indifference to her own historic treasures, it has been often said that she is too big and busy to care for such things ; and a narrow mind, vaunting itself nevertheless as large and superior, has sometimes added that these matters are proper aliment only for the provincial spirit in smaller towns, where people have little other employment or cause for activity than to dwell on the past, and where the days are long. Happily, the propriety of this large-sounding but smallminded declaration is beginning more generally to be doubted; more and more people are discerning the truth that a fond attachment to one's city is not an unmetropolitan quality; and though New York is larger and busier now than ever, it is in these latter days that indications

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