Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1904-01-01
Memorial Volume.

Memorial Volume.
The book of Memorial Sketches re-
Gently printed at the HERALD Office is
now ready for delivery to subscribers,
who should make application to this
office. The book is bound in two styles,
genuine morocco at 81 per copy, and i'll
cloth, gilt top, at $3.50. A few advance
copies have been sent to the state press,
and We append a few of the kind things
said of it.
A memorial volume which will appeal
to wide circle of readers in Vermont
has just been issued from the press of the
Essex County Herald. 1t is a collection
of sketches which appeared from time to
time from the facile and graceful pen of
| the late Hon. George Needham Dale, EN-
bodying tributes to many of the leading
men who have figured in the public life
of Vermont during the past quarter OF
century as well as to others. The sub
iects of sketches include Presidents Ben
jamin Harrison aud William Mckinley,
Queen Victoria, Gladstone, United States
Senator Justin S. Morrill,, ex-Gov. j.
Gregory Smith, the Rt. Rev. Louis De
Goesbriand, late bishop of Burlington,
Judge Luke p. Poland, ex-Secretary Will
liam NJ. Evarts, ex-Congressman William
w. Grout. Chief Judge Russell 5. TAFT,
Hiram A. Huse, Col. Aldace F. Walker
Charles NJ. Wilds, Frances f. Willard.
ex.Gov. Levi X. Fuller, William Hunt,
Reuben c. Benton, Judge Elias Lyman.
and host of other persons we'll known
to the general public. The extent of the
literary work represented can be judged
from the fact that the volume is large
book of nearly 400 pages.
Col. Porter II. Dale, who compiled
these sketches, says in PREDATORY notice
| that his father knew this book would be
published, and read the proof sheets for
part of the work. The compiler says
the collection of these sketches was COM
menced in the hope that their author
would take a cheerful interest in their
| publication, and that others would well
come them, both for the sake of him
and in memory of their friends whom he
appreciated. at became memorial to
him, builded of the words he wrote of
many friends, and is concluded in the
hope that all who read may feel his rea-
soning force and find it less terrible
ITO lift the veil that hides from us
the eternal world, and look and
60 beyond"
George N. Dale was a prolific writer
and in the quarter of century during
which he contributed to the columns of
the Essex County Herald, his articles
were widely read outside of the natural
field of the Journal He discussed in an
able and comprehensive manner the lead
ing topics of the day, and his utterances
were invariably characterized by phil
osophical vein, which appears OH almost
every page of this volume especially in
the allegorical lines published with the
sketches. Col. Porter H. Dale has made
this interesting work fitting memorial
of his distinguished father.-Free Press
The "Memorial Sketches" written of
many friends by George Needham
Dale, "G. N. d." and published in the
Essex County Herald from time to
time through quarter of century, is
On our desk, and is worthy of few
comments. The book contains 3S4
pages of clean readable type with az
ticles compiled by Porter Human Dale,
son of the deceased George Needham
Dale whom to know in life was to re-
spect and honor, and to reverence in
death. The book contains l04 sketches
written by the deceased during his life
time upon friends and noted men and
women of the state at the time of their
deceass. Among them might be men,