Anecdotes of public men; by John W. Forney.

204 ANECDOTES OF PUBLIC MEN.
whom you almost see passing before you in his diversified
guises. Mr. Leland is now a resident of London, the friend
and associate of most of the literary leaders. It must be extremely gratifying to him that the amusing poems which he
threw off in his leisure moments should be read and admired
in all intellectual circles, and that every stanza he adds increases their deserved popularity. I can only hope that he is
fortunate in something more than mere fame, and that his writings are contributing to his substantial comfort in the Old
World.
Almost as interesting is it to hear Mr. Lloyd reciting James
Russell Lowell's "Hosea Biglow;" but the Yankee idiom is
not so cosmopolitan as the patois of English and German. The
same remark applies to negro melodies and plays. The NewEnglander and the black man are Americans, while Hans Breitmann is the citizen of the world; his poetry.is a medle yof.the
tongues of the oldest and most civilized nations, and, as he
plays many parts and borrows a little from each, he will be remembered when the accent of Brother Jonathan and Uncle
Tom is lost in the universality of the language that must ultimately control the whole American continent.
[October 29, I87I.]
XLIII.
SLAVERY and its mysterious inner life has never yet been described. When it is, Reality will surpass Fiction. Uncle Tom's
Cabin will be rebuilt and newly garnitured. A book detailing
the operations of the Under-ground.Railroad.is soon to be published in Philadelphia by WilliamnStill, Esq., an intelligent colored gentleman, which, composed entirely of facts, will supply
material for indefinite dramas and romances. It will disclose a