Excerpt from The Valedictory Address: Delivered Before the Athenaeum of Toronto, at the Close of Their Annual Session, on Thursday, April 30, 1846 SO Roscoe, - SO Rogers, amidst an active engagement in the com mon businesses of life, found means to gain for themselves conspi cuons niches in the Walhalla of England. Hear too a word from Basil Montagu, who employed his leisure snatched from laborious legal cares, in selecting a book Of choice sentences from some of the greatest writers of England - a little work that will give pleasure and do service to future generations.* On the result of this his (perhaps it will be thought) very humble style of literary recreation, he indulges in his preface in this pleasant anticipation, which, I doubt not, has again and again been realised. Often, he says. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.