been when it included such figures as Washington Irving, Fitz-Greene Halleck and the poet of \"The Culprit Fay.\" The most celebrated authors of that generation had been \"gentlemen\"; perhaps the unknown persons who succeeded them had gentlemanly sentiments, but their origin, their appearance, their hair, their intimacy with the stage and the Opera, made any old New York criterion inapplicable to them.
\"When I was a girl,\" Mrs. Archer used to say,
been when it included such figures as Washington Irving, Fitz-Greene Halleck and the poet of \"The Culprit Fay.\" The most celebrated authors of that generation had been \"gentlemen\"; perhaps the unknown persons who succeeded them had gentlemanly sentiments, but their origin, their appearance, their hair, their intimacy with the stage and the Opera, made any old New York criterion inapplicable to them.
\"When I was a girl,\" Mrs. Archer used to say,
