WHOSE FIDELITY AND AFFECTION CONTRIBUTED SO MATERIALLY TO ITS COMFORT AND HAPPINESS. Mr. Joel Chandler Harris has, in an admirable way, commended to public notice the dialect and folk-lore in vogue among the Negroes of Middle Georgia. With fidelity and cleverness has he perpetuated the legends and songs once current among these peoples, and now fast lapsing into oblivion. There is, however, a field, largely untrodden, in which may be found ample opportunity for the exhibition of kindred inquiry and humor. We refer to the swamp region of Georgia and the Carolinas, where the lingo of the rice-field and the sea-island negroes is _sui generis_, and where myths and fanciful stories, often repeat…
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