Three or four good brick houses on the corner of Broadway and Spring Street have been levelled, I know not for what purpose--shops, no doubt.

The houses--fine, costly edifices, opposite to me extending from Driggs's corner down to a point opposite to Bond Street--are to make way for a grand concert and exhibition establishment." It is far from being all mellowness and amiability, that Diary.

Hone had his prejudices and dislikes and strong political opinions.

In the portraits that have been preserved there is the suggestion of intolerance and smug self-satisfaction.

Also life did not turn out quite so rosy as it promised in 1828, when he retired from business with a handsome competence.