LELAND, Charles Godfrey, American author: b. Philadelphia, 15 Aug. 1824; d. Florence, Italy, 20 March 1903. He showed poetic talent in youthful contributions to news papers and a growing genius, marked by un usual versatility, dunng his college days at Princeton, where he was graduated in 1846. He studied afterward at Heidelberg, Munich and Paris, giving special attention to modern languages, philosophy and wsthetics. In 1848 he took part in the revolutionary uprising in Paris; the same year returned to Philadelphia and studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1851, but gave up the legal profession and de voted himself to literary pursuits, becoming prominent in various. fields of journalism and authorship. For a time he was editor of the New York Illustrated News; in 1861 estab: lished the Continental Magazine in Boston, and two years later returned to Philadelphia, where for several years he edited the Press. During the Civil War he published 'The Book of Copperheads,' a political satire. From 1869 to 1880 he resided chiefly in London. In Eng land and on the Continent he studied gypsies and gypsy lore, in which he became one of the leading authorities of his time. His career as poet, ethnologist and traveler, with its mingling of literary avocations, was invested with an element of romance, and his more serious work was lightened by the interchange of humor. At the same time his achievements show the practical talents of a man of .business. When in 1880 he once more returned to Philadelphia he was instrumental in establishing industrial teaching in the public schools, in furtherance of which he wrote a number of manuals and gave his supervision to the work. From 1886
he lived in Europe, mainly in Florence. He wrote and translated a large number of works, remarkable for variety as well as for literary value, the best known and most popular of which are 'Hans Breitmann's (1867 70, 1895), written in "Pennsylvania Dutch," his translations from Heine, including of Travel' (1856) and (Heine's Book of Songs) (1862), 'English Gypsies and Their Language' (1873), 'English Gypsy Songs) (in collabora tion, 1875), 'The Gypsies' (1882) and 'Gypsy Sorcery and Fortune-Telling) (1892). Among his other writings are 'The Poetry and Mys tery of Dreams) (1855) ; 'Meister Karl's Sketch-Book) (1855) ; 'Sunshine in Thought' (1862) ; 'Legends of Birds' (1864) ; Music-Lesson of Confucius) (1870) ; 'The Egyptian Sketch-Book' (1873) ; or the Discovery of America by Chinese Buddhist Priests in the Fifth (1875) ; 'Johnny kin and the Goblins) (1876) ; 'Pidgin-English Singsong> (1876) ; 'Abraham Lincoln) (1879) ; 'The Minor Arts) (1880) ; 'Algonquin Legends of New England) (1884); 'Etruscan-Roman Re mains in Popular Tradition) (1892) ; 'Autobi ographical Memoirs) (1893); 'Songs of the Sea and Lays of the Land' (1895) ; 'Mending and Repairing)(1896); 'One Hundred Profit able Acts) (1897) ; 'The Unpublished Legends of Virgil) (1899) ; and (his last work) 'Ku loskap the Master, and Other Algonkin Poems) (1903), a volume of Indian folklore in verse, written in collaboration with John Dinely Prince. Consult Pennell, E. R., 'Charles God frey Leland: A Biography) (2 vols., New York 1906).