From many tributes to my father's character, from persons more impartial than I can be, I have selected two or three.
I cannot quote at length Ralph Waldo Emerson's sketches of Mr.Hoar, who was his near neighbor and intimate personal friend for many years.

They are noble and faithful as portraits of Van Dyke or Titian.

One of them is a speech made in Concord town-meeting on the third day of November, 1856, the day after Mr.Hoar's death.

The other was contributed to the _Unitarian Monthly Religious Magazine,_ then edited by Rev.Dr.Huntington, afterward Bishop of New York.

Mr.Emerson says in one of them: "His head, with singular grace in its lines, had a resemblance to the bust of Dante.