A Brief Preliminary Announcement The New York of the Novelists A New Pilgrimage By Arthur Bartlett Maurice IN EVERY RESPECT an unusual series; a series to be missed by no man or woman with an interest in American novels and American novelists. The available material has proved far richer than was thought when the articles were originally planned. There has come to light a vast amount of vitally interesting and hitherto unpublished anecdote. The author of the papers has had the heartiest coöperation in the work from novelists and publishers. In the following of the trail the novelists themselves have been in most cases the author's companions and guides. And in pointing out this house or that, this dark alley or spacious park as the scene of an episode they have told, for the first time, the reason that led to the selection. In preparing the series approximately two hundred pictures have been taken. I. The City That Was. III. The Remnants of Bohemia. II. 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