The same Eleventh Street, which (as we shall see later) was badly handicapped by "the stiff-necked Mr.Henry Brevoort" cut half of Beth Haim away.

But a corner of it remains and tranquil enough it seems, not to say pleasant, though almost under the roar of the Elevated.
The Presbyterian churches got a foothold fairly early;--probably the first very fashionable one was that on Mercer Street.

Its pastor, the Reverend Thomas Skinner, is chiefly, but deservedly, renowned for a memorable address he made to an assembly of children, some time in 1834.

Here is an extract which is particularly bright and lucid: "Catechism is a compendium of divine truth.

Perhaps, children, you do not know the meaning of that word.
Compendium is synonymous with synopsis"!!! [Illustration: THE CRADLE OF BOHEMIA.