'What poor slaves are the American people!' says the Times' own RUSSELL. 'They may abjure kings and princes, but they are ruled by hotel-keepers and waiters.' The following translation from the Persian shows, however, that a man may be a king or a prince and a hotel-keeper at the same time.
A ROYAL HOTEL-KEEPER.
FROM THE PERSIAN. BY HENRY P. LELAND.
IBRAM BEN ADHAM at his palace gate,
Sits, while in line his pages round him wait;
When a poor dervish, staff and sack in hand,
Straight would have entered IBRAM'S palace grand.
'Old man,' the pages asked, 'where goest thou now?'
'In that hotel,' he answered, with a bow.
The pages said,—'Ha! dare you call hotel