James Russell Lowell and His Friends

by Edward Everett Hale

So Forward! and God bless the maid

That saved my life on the Pamunky!”

Here is a new verse of “Lilliburlero:”—

“‘Well, Uncle Sam,’ says Jefferson D.,

Lilliburlero, Old Uncle Sam,

‘You ’ll have to join my Confed’racy,’

Lilliburlero, Old Uncle Sam.

‘Lero, lero, that don’t appear, O! That don’t appear,’ says Old Uncle Sam.

‘Lero, lero, filibustero! That don’t appear,’ says Old Uncle Sam.”

Mr. Child was appointed professor in rhetoric in 1851, and by a new appointment in 1876 professor of the English language and literature. It is interesting to see that, although the use of the English language had been admirably taught at Harvard long before, there was no professor of English literature for two centuries and a half after the college was founded. Is there one at Oxford or at the English Cambridge to-day?