LELAND, CHARLES GODFREY, b. Philadelphia, 1824. After graduating at Prince ton in 1846, he traveled id Europe, and continued his studies at the universities of Heidelberg, Munich, and Paris. He was in the latter city during the outbreak in Feb., 1848, and joined the students of the Latin quarter behind the barricades. Returning to America the same year, he prepared for the bar, but concluded to devote himself to a literary career. He wrote at first for the periodicals, Graham's, Sartain's, and the Knickerbocker magazines, and edited the first of these at one time. He has made a study of the Gypsy or Rommany language and history, and of dialect writing. He has also obtained reputation as a German scholar. It is probable, however, that Mr. Leland's fame will rest chiefly on his work as a humorist, in which capacity he has contributed freely to American literature. He has published S,'etch-Book of _Mister Karl, 1855; The Poetry and drystery of Dreams, 1855; Pictures (f Travel, translated from the German of Heinrich Heine, 1855; Heine's Book of Song; Sunshine in Thought, 1862; Legends of Birds, 1864; Hans Breitmann's Ballads, 1867-70; Poems, 1871; Egyptian Sketch-Book, 1873; English Gypsies and their Language, 1873; Fu-Sang, 1874; and English Gypsy Poety, 1875; the last being, issued with the collaboration of Miss Janet Tuckey and prof. E. H. Palmer. Mr. Leland has also practiced journalism to some extent, having
been employed on the editorial department of the Philadelphia Press and Ercning Bul letin—and for a time- as editor of Vanity Fair, a humorous and satirical weekly paper, published in New York during the rebellion. He resided in Europe and traveled exten sively during a number of years prior to 1880, when he returned to America, and settled in Philadelphia.