No. 10. Serial. Price, 10 Cents. THE PULPIT AND ROSTRUM. Sermons, Orations, Popular Lectures, &c., PHONOGRAPHICALLY REPORTED BY ANDREW J. GRAHAM AND CHAS. B. COLLAR A TRIBUTE TO THE MEMORY OF Washington Irving. AN ADDRESS BY HON. EDWARD EVERETT, BEFORE THE MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL SOCIETY. DELIVERED AT BOSTON, A SERMON BY REV. JOHN A. TODD, DELIVERED AT TARRYTOWN, DEC. 11, 1859. NEW YORK: H. H. LLOYD & CO., 348 BROADWAY. LONDON: Trubuer & Co, 60 Paternoster Row. SAN FRANCISCO: Warren & Carpenter, 167 Clay Street, General Agents for California. January 15th, 1860. AN ELEGANT SERIAL IN PAMPHLET FORM, CONTAINS PHONOGRAPHIC REPORTS OF THE BEST SERMONS, POPULAR LECTURES, ORATIONS, ETC. ANDREW J. GRAHAM and CHARLES B. COLLAR, TWELVE NUMBERS, $1 00 IN ADVANCE; SINGLE NUMBER, 10 CENTS. THE special object in the publication of this Serial, is to preserve in convenient form the best thoughts of our most gifted men, just as they come from their lips; thus retaining their freshness and personality. Great favor has already been shown the work, and its long continuance is certain. The successive numbers will be issued as often as Discourses worthy a place in the Serial can be found; out of the many reported, we hope to elect twelve each year. EIGHT NUMBERS ARE READY. No. 8.--EDWARD EVERETT'S ORATION at the Inauguration of the Statue of Daniel Webster, at Boston, Sept. 17, 1859. This is justly regarded as one of Mr. Everett's greatest efforts. No. 7.-COMING TO CHRIST. The last sermon in the celebrated Academy of Music Course. By Rev. HENRY MARTIN SCUDDER, M.D., D.D., Missionary to India. No 6.-THE TRIBUTE TO HUMBOLDT; being the interesting and scholarly Addresses on the career of the great Cosmopolitan, by Hon. GEO. BANCROFT, Rev. Dr. THOMPSON, Profs. AGASSIZ, LIEBER, BACHE, and GUYOT. No. 5.--The Great Sermon of Rev. A. KINGMAN NOTT (recently deceased), on JESUS AND THE RESURRECTION, delivered in the Academy of Music, New York, February 13, 1859. No. 4.—THE PROGRESS AND DEMANDS OF CHRISTIANITY. By the Rev. WM. H. MILBURN (the blind preacher). With an interesting Biographical Sketch. No. 3.—The eloquent Discourse of Prof. Ö. M. MITCHELL, of the Cincinnati Observatory, on the GREAT UNFINISHED PROBLEMS OF THE UNIVERSE. No. 2.-The celebrated Addresses of the Rev. HENRY WARD BEECHER and JAMES T. BRADY, Esq., on MENTAL CULTURE FOR WOMEN. No. 1.--The Rev. T. L. CUYLER'S Sermon on CHRISTIAN RECREATION AND UNCHRISTIAN AMUSEMENT No. 9.—A CHEERFUL TEMPER; an eloquent Thanksgiving Discourse, by Rev. WM. ADAMS, of Madison Square Church, N. Y. Back or Current Numbers are promptly mailed from the office, on receipt of the price. We have also "Irvingiana," a small neat quarto, with an original portrait by Darley, a fac-simile page from Rip Van Winkle, and thirty contributions, mostly original, by eminent writers. This is a very choice volume. Price postpaid: paper, 50 cents; cloth, 75 cents, Address H. H. LLOYD & CO., Publishers, 12 Appleton's Building, 348 Broadway, New York. THE DEATH OF WASHINGTON IRVING. An Address by Hon. Edward Everett before the Massachusetts Historical Society. Delivered at Boston, Dec. 15, 1859. I CORDIALLY Concur in the resolutions which Mr. Longfellow has submitted to the Society. They do no more than justice to the merits and character of Mr. Irving, as a man and as a writer; and it is to me, sir, a very pleasing circumstance that a tribute like this to the Nestor of the prose writers of America-so just and so happily expressed-should be paid by the most distinguished of our American poets. If the year 1769 is distinguished, above every other year of the last century, for the number of eminent men to which it gave birth, that of 1859 is thus far signalized in this century for the number of bright names which it has taken from us; and surely that of Washington Irving may be accounted with the brightest on the list. It is eminently proper that we should take a respectful notice of his decease. He has stood for many years on the roll of our honorary members, and he has enriched the literature of the country with two first-class historical works, which, although from their subjects they possess a peculiar attraction for the people of the United States, are yet, in general interest, second to no cotemporary works in that department of literature. I allude, of course, to the "History of the Life and Voyages of Columbus" and the "Life of Washington." Although Mr. Irving's devotion to literature as a profession—and a profession pursued with almost unequaled success-was caused by untoward events, which in ordinary cases would have proved the ruin of a life-a rare good fortune attended his literary career. Without having received a collegiate education, and destined first to the legal profession, which he abandoned as uncongenial, he had, in very early life, given promise of attaining a brilliant reputation as a writer. Some essays from his pen attracted notice before he reached his majority. A few years later, the numbers of the "Salmagundi," to which he was a principal contributor, enjoyed a success throughout the United States far beyond any former similar work, and not surpassed, if equaled, by anything which has since appeared. This was followed by "Knickerbocker's History of New York," which at once placed Mr. Irving at the head of American humorists. In the class of compositions to which it belongs, I know of nothing happier than this work in our language. It has probably been read as widely, and with as keen a relish, as anything from Mr. Irving's pen. It would seem cynical to subject a work of this kind to an austere commentary, at least while we are paying a tribute to the memory of its lamented author. But I may be permitted to observe that, while this kind of writing fits well with the joyous temperament of youth, in the first frush of successful authorship, and is managed by Mr. Irving with great delicacy and skill, it is, in my opinion, better adapted for a jeu d'esprit in a magazine than for a work of considerable compass. To travesty an entire history seems to me a mistaken effort of ingenuity, and not well applied to the countrymen of William of Orange, Grotius, the De Witts, and Van Tromp. This work first made Mr. Irving known in Europe. His friend, Mr. Henry Brevoort, one of the associate wits of the "Salmagundi," had sent a copy of it to Sir Walter Scott, himself chiefly known at that time as the most popular of the English poets of the day, though as such beginning to be outdone by the fresher brightness of Byron's inspiration. Scott, though necessarily ignorant of the piquant allusions to topics of cotemporary interest, and wholly destitute of sympathy with the spirit of the work, entered fully into its humor as a literary effort, and spoke of it with discrimination and warmth. His letter to Mr. Henry Brevoort is now in the possession of his |