Literary New York . Place, atNo. 108, is a squat red brick housewhere Richard Harding Davis wrotehis newspaper tales. Across, at thecorner, lived George Parsons Lathropwhen he wrote Behind Time, andthere his wife, Rose HawthorneLathrop, wrote Along the Shore. Anhistoric site this house stands on, forit is where Stoddard and Taylor oncelived together. A block to the northis old-time Clinton Place, which now,538 Some Writers of To-Day for modern convenience, recking notof memory or of sentiment, has be-come Eighth Street. There, to theleft of Fifth Avenue, at No. 18, iswhere Paul du Chaillu wrot

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Literary New York . Place, atNo. 108, is a squat red brick housewhere Richard Harding Davis wrotehis newspaper tales. Across, at thecorner, lived George Parsons Lathropwhen he wrote Behind Time, andthere his wife, Rose HawthorneLathrop, wrote Along the Shore. Anhistoric site this house stands on, forit is where Stoddard and Taylor oncelived together. A block to the northis old-time Clinton Place, which now, 538 Some Writers of To-Day for modern convenience, recking notof memory or of sentiment, has be-come Eighth Street. There, to theleft of Fifth Avenue, at No. 18, iswhere Paul du Chaillu wrote Ivar theViking, and to the right the houseopposite, covered from basement toeaves with green clustering vines, isthe home of Richard Watson Gilder. It is only a question now of cross-ing half a dozen city blocks towardsthe east to wander into what wascalled the Bou-werie Village.Modern streetsand modern im-provementshave so over-ridden the vil-lage of old thattraces of it arefew and diffi-cult to find-Here in this. Literary New York district many a writer of New York haslived. At Fourth Avenue and TenthStreet still stands the house, known toall who lived there as The Deanery, in which Miss Annie Swift kept board-ers, and where the family of RichardHenry Stoddard lived during the lastfour years that Mr. Stoddard held hispost in the Custom House. HereStedman, and Bayard Taylor, andHowells were visitors, with scores ofother writers;here Mrs. Stod-dard wrote TheMorgensons, andhere Stoddardhimself wroteThe Kings Bell, Melodies andAfadrigals, andother poems.Not more than ablock away, inthe house num-