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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1861 edition. Excerpt: ...down to its destiny between the upper and nether mill-stone.---It will already have been seen, by the thousands of readers of the widely-disseminated sheets of our friends of the daily metropolitan press, how universally have been reechoed the obituary honors which have been heaped upon the memory of The Late Judge William Sent. Like many of our younger contemporaries of the press, whose names are upon the nib of our pen as wo write, our acquaintance with Mr. Kent was first established at the Dinner given to Mr. Diekem at the Astor House, by the 'Novelties' Club' of New York, 'one of the most pleasant and intellectual entertainments which he had in America,' as he himself wrote soon after, in a note now before us. Judge William Kent presided: and from the first, every member and guest of the Club saw that he was, after all, at least the ' presiding' genius of the occasion. Nothing could have been more unaffected, eelf-possessed, and entirely charming, than his manner. Few who knew him, will ever forget the mellow, low tones of his voice, and the ' winsomeness' of the tranquil smiles which always illustrated his varied, and especially his incidental, humorous conversation. We had the pleasure, on the occasion to which we allude, to sit upon the left, and next to the President; and can well believe that what Mr. Benjamin D. Silliman said of him, in his admirable eulogy before the New-York bar, was eminently true: he ' had a remarkable memory; he forgot nothing:' and such, we think, must have been the impression of our guest; for not a character previously drawn by Mr. Diceens, however humble, but was, in all its characteristies, as familiar to, and as well understood by him, as by the author himself. Our impression formed of Judge Kent at this...
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