20 NOVEMBER 1897, Page 13

Last Days of Knickerbocker's Life in New York. By Abram

C. Dayton. (G. P. Putnam's Sons.)—This is an illustrated edition of Mr. Dayton's volume, which was first brought out in 1880, Mr. Dayton having died in 1877. Some of the sketches of life went the round of his friends in typographical form before his death. Several illustrations of streets and houses in the " thirties " happily point the deceased writer's description of old New York, One is reminded of the old coffee-house of " Life in London ; " indeed, New York made a far greater change than London did, between the " thirties " and the " eighties," in mon, manners, and methods. This is an interesting book, though it must appeal more to the New Yorker than the Londoner.