Download or read book The Knickerbocker, Or New York Monthly Magazine, 1859, Vol. 54 (Classic Reprint) written by Charles Fenno Hoffman and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-08-16 with total page 786 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Knickerbocker, or New York Monthly Magazine, 1859, Vol. 54 Cain went out from the presence Of the lord and builded a city.' Nevertheless, we love cities. We love their bustle, their throbbing life, their mighty in uences. To them we look for the development and practical application of great ideas. In them we find the best and the worst of humanity. Learning and ignorance, wealth and poverty. 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."