A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK - BY CHARLES B. TODD - PREFACE - THIS volume was written at the suggestion of pubIic school teachers and members of the City History Club, as a text-book for use in the public and private schools of New York, as well as for all others interested in the study of the citys striking and romantic history. It has been the authors aim to present this history concisely, accurately, impartially, and at the same time to weave into the narrative such romantic and picturesque ilcideilts, sich details of manners, customs, and domestic life, as would lend it local color and rendcr the picture clear and complete. The causes which led to the founding of the city, and the men and thc agencies responsible for its wonderfrl growth, have not been forgotten. In a work so condensed it was impossible to notice all the events in the citys history. For these the reader............