Show boston and now york so long ago as 1719 daniel neal an u 0 observant bs ervant traveler who ought to be belli in high esteem by massachusetts people wrote of the tha now new england metropolis tro polis 11 there are five p printing r inting presses in boston which are generally fail all of work by which it appears that humanity anil and tho the knowledge of letters hourish flourish more hero than in all the tha other english plantations pat together lor for in tho the city ot of now york there is in butane bat one booksellers shop sho slid in the plantations ol of virginia maryland carolina barbadoes mad and the islands Ii landa none at III all I 1 happily humanity and the knowledge of letters are ara no longer confined to one corner of 0 the country but notwithstanding corwith tho the growth ol of an opinion that boston and new york are to occupy relatively the positions of 0 edinburgh and london the capital of massachi settle bella still liaa has a peculiar prestige as the oldest center of literary in the country causing tho the eyes of the real of tho the union to turn towana it with a par interest a glance compounded of re reaped hect null reminiscence with something of ins alaila expectancy tile the bostonia n it is 14 true laughs hugha at boston in his quiet way it is 11 capital place to live lire in raid ua an eminent publisher who litia has big dwelling there because then you can go to now york but bat it if you live in new york i luro ro ean can yon too go the mot ino 9 pit cizes the tha sentiment Benti ment of many i lg lis his townsmen bat it they sometimes join in the alien laugh against their 11 little city and recognize a degree of smallness and constraint in its ila general attitude thoy they also keenly the other side so bo do some of conr friends the now new yorkers one of the fhe younger new york poe poets tsoa oa visiting cambridge lor for the first time lime sail said to me 1 l we bear a great deal about the failure of boston to quite appreciate the tha mental breadth and energy of now new york but with nil all the admiration I 1 felt for this region beloro belore I 1 camal cama here hare I 1 fled Und I 1 wholly appreciate it there is such a thing as it a new york boston ism I 1 goo geo P lathrop in III harpers Har pera magazine Mig azine |