New Britain herald., 1917-02-03
sEIIHU BJyRRITTS LABOR IN COL. LECTING TRIBUTE TO
 CHARLES DICKENS.

CHARLES DICKENS.
 Elihu Burritt, shortly after the death of Charles Dickens, set about collecting the tributes to the memory of the world famous author. With the usual care and zeal manifested by this great genius who spent his life in New Britain. MT. Burritt secured editorial articles from prominent newspapers and magazines, the world over, also eulogies delivered from the pulpit of famous churches in all nations. With these utterances from press and pull pit Elihu Burritt possessed treasure money could not buy. Where his col lection of tributes Is today no one knows. Search is being made for it. however, and as the coveted prize may be at this moment resting in solitude in some New Britain home, The Herald prints the subjoined article forwarded here from the editor of "The Dickensian." the official publica- ton of the Dickens Fellowship
 At the second meeting of the New Britain Literary Club, given to the ap- works, Elihu Burritt made the follow inc renarks; "At our last meeting reference was made to the model of a monument to Charles Dickens, which I propose to show to the club. I have. therefore, brought 1t with me this evening; and, as you will see, 1t is neither wood nor stone. have called it The Voices of the Nations at the Death of Dickens and I think it well merits the title.
 ''The next morning after he died, I sent a note to the London Times proposing to collect the tributes to his memory which should appear in the public Journals and other perl l odicals of different countries, and make them into a memorial volume, l which should be kind of household l monument to the world-admired au- thor. I requested publishers to send me copies of their journals or pertodi
 calls containing such articles. This proposition was responded to readily and widely. Newspapers and maga- zines were sent to me from all parts of Christendom-from India and Austra- lia, from Quebec to Calcutta, and from San Francisco to Stockholm. It was a pleasant exercise to me to read every
 line of these tributes, which showed
 how deeply the writings of Charles the civilized world. I spent several
 weeks in translating from the French l German, Italian, Dutch. Danish and Swedish, articles full of earnest and and elevating influence of all his l works This portion of the
 packet, call The Voice of the Press.
 The other portion comprises extract.
 chester, the Dean of Westminster, ant
 other distinguished clergymen il
 Europe and America, which I hav'
 called The Voice of the Pulpit
 think, therefore, that I hold in m,
 hand the opinion of the world in re gard to the life and writings of Charles
 Dickens.
 "It certainly cannot be too much tt
 say that the world never pronounced such simultaneous, unanimous ant
 eloquent eulogy on the work of an.
 other author in the whole history O
 classic and modern literature. Ther' :, is 8 fact of peculiar interest attaching
 to this universal expression of regard
 Dickens was the first man Of world
 wide reputation who died in the tele
 graphic age, in the present sense O.
 that epoch The feeling of this los
 to the world was simultaneous ant !: equal emotion in all countries by tn, electric wires. These nerves af light ming life grouped the mourning na tions around his very bier, and en abled them to drop on his coffin flow. CTS of sea-divided continents fresh with the mornings dew. This then i.