ride by rail from New York, and less than three miles from Sunnyside, which was the home of the author during the latter years ofhis life.
If one leaves the hot, noisy city as we did one afternoon late in June, reaching Tarrytown just as the shades of night were falling over the river, and the dim, purple hues of the mountains were fading from view, and is driven up the winding, climbing streets while the cool, pure evening air, redolent with the rose and honeysuckle
soothes him into a state of blissful rest, he will undoubtedly feel as we did, that it is one of the most beautiful spots on earth Certain it is,
that much of the culture and wealth of the great metropolis has given substantial expression to this opinion, as shown in the hundreds
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