LE'LAND, CHARLES GODFREY (1824-1903). An American poet, journalist, humorist, and mis cellaneous writer, born in Philadelphia, August 15, 1824. Some years before his graduation at Princeton, in 1845, his precocious talent had found voice in short poems contributed to the newspapers. After graduation he studied at Heidelberg, Mimich, and Paris, and was one of the American deputation to congratulate the French Provisional Government on the Revolu tion of 1848, in the course of which he joined the students of the Latin (;carter behind the Paris harricades. in that year he returned to Philadelphia, studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1851, continued to write for periodicals, and soon devoted himself entirely to literature and to editorial and journalistic work. Ile made a special study of Gypsy language and history and attained much reputation both as a German scholar and as a describer of German and Ger man-American life. Leland's widely read Hans Breitmann's Ballads tell, in the patois called Pennsylvania Dutch,' many humorous conceits and droll adventures of their clownish hero. Le land himself was sometimes spoken of as 'Hans Brcitmann.' lie 'Wrote, however, under his own name. Leland's editorial work took him for a time to New York, but he returned to Philadel phia in 1855, and in 1861 established in Boston the Continental Maga.;:ine. Ile soon returned to Philadelphia, however; traveled in the Middle West, and was from 1869 to 1880 resident ehielly in London. pursuing (i'ypsy studies. Returning to Philadelphia, lie was active in furthering in dustrial-art education in the public schools, and wrote for this purpose several manuals, after his visit to the United States in 1880; hut thenceforward he lived in Europe and he died in Florence, Italy, March 20, 1903. His
published volumes comprise, among others: The Poetry and Mystery of Dreams (1855) ; Meister Karl's Sketch Book, sketches of foreign travel (1855) ; Pictures of Trarcl, the first of his trans lations of Heine (1856) : Sunshine in Thought (1862) ; Thine's Book of Songs (1862) ; Legends of Birds (1864) ; Hans Breitmann's Ballads, his hest known work; /inns ,Brcitmann Abont Town and Other New Ballads; Hans Broihnnn in ties: Hans M•-Milani? and His Philosoprde; Hans Party, with Other New Ballads; Hans Breitmann as an U/rdaii (1867-70; com plete ed., Philadelphia. 1871 ; London. 1872: new ed. 1874) : The Music Lesson of Confucius, philosophic verses (1870) Gaudramus, songs translated from the German (I871); Egyptian sketch Book (1873); English. Gypsies and Their Language (1873); English Gypsy Songs (1875, in collaboration) : En-Sang, or the Disro•rry of Ameriea by Chinese Buddhist Priests in the Fifth Century (1875) : Johnnykin and the Goblins (1876): Pidyin-English Singsong (1876); Abra ham Lincoln (1879); The Minor Arts (1880); The Gypsies (1882) ; Algonquin Legends of New England (1884); Autobiographical Memoirs (1893); Songs of the Sea and Lays of the Land (1895); Hans Kreitniann in Tyrol (1895) ; One Hundred Profitable Acts (1897); and The Un published Legends of Vergil (1899). His last work was a volume of Indian folklore verses (1903), called Kuloskap the Master, and Other Algonkin. Poems. This was done in collaboration with Dr. John Tynely Prince.