III.
THE EMPIRE CITY;
OR
NEW YORK BY NIGHT AND DAY.
BY GEORGE LIPPARD,
Author of “The Quaker City.”
One volume, splendidly illustrated, and making 250 pages. Complete for 50 cents.
(Extract of a letter from a distinguished literary gentleman to the author.)
“Your greatest book is the Empire City. It far surpasses your world-renowned novel,
`The Quaker City.' If you finish it as you have commenced, it will be, beyond a doubt
the most absorbing novel of the Age.”
(From another letter.)
“New York is certainly the greatest city in America. It is decidedly Metropolitan in its
character. In its streets will be discovered representatives of all the classes and races which
have an existence on the American Continent, mingled with many others from the Old World.
Thus New York furnishes more abundant materials for a great book, than any city in the
world. It is the task of the Author, in `the Empire City' to picture New York not as it
seems, but as it is. He traverses its huts and palaces, pictures its scenes by Night and Day
and delineates characters from North, South, East and West, who are lured to the great city
by every motive that can sway the mind of man. The great question of Trinity Church,
which it is said will be treated in the pages of the “Empire City” will alone make it more
thoroughly and earnestly read than any work of the age. The few chapters that have been
published, display all the powers of a master hand: we look for the complete work with indescribable
interest.”
