Excerpt from Peeps at Great Cities: New York New York, with other cities, has a spirit of its own. You notice it very soon after getting there but, of course, like everything else, it takes time to understand this personal side of the place, this individuality. And yet this side is by far the more interesting, and is truly New York. New York is gay, but not with the gaiety of Paris or Vienna, or of the Southern cities. It is a hard, busy gaiety, Without the polished grace of the French capital or the childlike charm of Naples. New York's gaiety is more that of a hard-worked and anxious man, who throws of? His business cares and troubles for a little While, and goes in for what he calls a good time. The English are said to take even their pleasures seriously; and though New Yorkers don't do just that, they do take them in a hurried, restless fashion, and are too often rather rough than merry, as in the New Year and election merry-makings, that, though kindly enough, are more given to horseplay than real fun. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.