Pictorial New York and Brooklyn: A Guide to the Same and Vicinity With Maps Illustrations (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

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The picturesque points of interest in any of the great capitals of the world of necessity bear a certain resemblance to each other. This resem blance, however slight it may be, arises from the fact that the needs and conveniences of mankind are the same all the world over.

But there are points of difference as well, owing to the influence of race, climate and nationality, and it is to these that the value of pictorial illustra tion IS due.

The City of New York now takes metropolitan rank. It is no longer a provincial town; it is a great city, classing with London, Paris, Berlin and Vienna.

For this reason it seems to the publishers that there is room for a thoroughly artistic Guide to New York and Brooklyn, which sister cities, like human twins, are the same at the core, although perhaps, different in outward development. The guide books hitherto published are merely collections, more or less correct, of bare facts, in some instances emphasized by sketches equally bare.

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