Y., in which four generations of his family had lived, he passed the declining years of his busy and influential life within the walls of "Graystone," his substantial and costly home at Yonkers. His house is situated to the north of the city on an elevated plateau and is massive and ample rather than ornate. Its granite walls and Mansard roof, rising from the surrounding verdure, do not easily pass unnoticed inthe general view. But if we accord to Mr. Tilden the first niche in the local temple of fame, we would not leave him to solitude. Somewhere there would be a statue to Frederick Swartwout Cozzens, wine merchant and author, and the friend of most of the "Knickerbocker" authors. His Sparroivgrass Papers, originally published in Pittnanis Magazine, take rank among the classic works of American humour. The author of Nothing to Wear is also claimed proudly by Yonkers, and so are Doctor Wendell Prime, Mr. T. Astley Atkins, Doctor Armitage, and a score of other widely known people.^ Along the river shore the towns and villages are devouring the rural scenery and replacing its natural charm with a more lively human interest: but still ' Since the above went to press :\Ir. William Allen Butler, the author of Notliing io Wear, has passed away. His death occurred at Yonkers on September 9th, 1902.

2IO The Hudson River

between the httle centres of po])ulation there are fragrant miles of tree-shaded banks where the violets and anemones nod in the spring and the scarlet spires of the cardinal flower hide in August by the watercourses. Half a century ago Alfred B. Street wrote a characteristic description of the woodland scenery which in his day formed so striking a feature of the Hudson, and which even now in many places challenges the admiration of the observer.