Forest leaves . onsolation and relief to the many sufferers that were to be its knows that their prayers will often mention him to the Giver of allgrace, as he, too, frequently prays for the little colony of Gabriels. May God prosper the work, increase it, and grant it His heavenly blessing. Paternally yours in Jesus Christ, HENRY GABRIELS, Bishop of Ogdensburg. X Stray Leaves From The Story of Franklin County. rXTRODUCTIOX. With the first number of Forest Leaves I determined to begina history of Franklin County, and my friends placed in my hands theirmost precious histories and not
Forest leaves . onsolation and relief to the many sufferers that were to be its knows that their prayers will often mention him to the Giver of allgrace, as he, too, frequently prays for the little colony of Gabriels. May God prosper the work, increase it, and grant it His heavenly blessing. Paternally yours in Jesus Christ, HENRY GABRIELS, Bishop of Ogdensburg. X Stray Leaves From The Story of Franklin County. rXTRODUCTIOX. With the first number of Forest Leaves I determined to begina history of Franklin County, and my friends placed in my hands theirmost precious histories and notes upon the subject, with permission touse them. Just as I was about to outline my first paper I visited an old library,from which the most valued books had been culled. Looking over the FOREST LEAVES 5 piles of histories in serial form, I came upon a manuscript that seemsto have escaped the notice of the booklover. as well as of the lover ofliterature. Its style of illumination and finish would-be approved even. by Ruskin. The title appealed to me:—Stray Leaves from the Storyof New York Counties. The style covers nearly the whole field ofliterature. Each completed leaf bears the signature Clio. There are leaves of fiction, of poetry, lyric as well as epic. The storyof the noble men and women who braved the Dismal Wilderness/founded Malone and made Franklin County possible, is here told in astyle that the readers of Forest Leaves will not fail to appreciate. Thepoems sing the beauty and grace of nature embodied in each anil forest. We almost hear the cadence of these songs, sung bythe cultured voices of men who had been the guest of court and hall and bower, and whose only needed grace was that which naturealone could give. Thee left the Old World, and were the first lovers of the virgin 6 FOREST LEAVES wilderness of the New. Nature, always bountiful, lavished upon themher charms. Clio tells us that we cannot imagine the rapture of those firstlovers, e
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