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See also:LELAND, See also:CHARLES See also:GODFREY (1824-1903) , See also:American author. son of a See also:merchant, was See also:born at See also:Philadelphia on the 15th of See also:August 1824, and graduated at See also:Princeton in 1845. He after-wards studied at See also:Heidelberg, See also:Munich and See also:Paris. Ht was in Paris during the revolution of 1848, and took an active See also:part in it. He then returned to Philadelphia, and after being admitted to the See also:bar in 1851, devoted himself to contributing to See also:periodicals, editing various magazines and See also:writing books. At the opening of the See also:Civil See also:War he started at See also:Boston the See also:Continental See also:Magazine, which advocated emancipation. In 1868 he became known asthe humorous author of Hans Breitmann's Party and See also:Ballads, which was followed by other volumes of the same See also:kind, collected in 1871 with the See also:title•of Hans Breitmann's Ballads. These See also:dialect poems, burlesquing the See also:German American, at once became popular. In 1869 he went to See also:Europe, and till 188o was occupied, chiefly in See also:London, with See also:literary See also:work; after returning to Philadelphia for six years, he again made his See also:home in Europe, generally at See also:Florence, where he died on the loth of See also:March 1903. Though his humorous verses were most attractive to the public, Leland was a serious student of folk-See also:lore, particularly of the See also:gipsies, his writings on the latter (The See also:English Gypsies and their See also:Language, 1872; The Gypsies, 1882; Gypsy Sorcery and See also:Fortune-telling . . . , 1891, &c.) being recognized as valuable contributions to the literature of the subject. He was See also:president of the first See also:European folk-lore See also:congress, held in Paris in 1889.
His other publications include See also:Poetry and See also:Mystery of Dreams (1855), Meister Karl's See also:Sketch-See also:book (1855), Piaui es of Travel (1856), See also:Sunshine in Thought (1862), See also:Heine's Book of Songs (1862), The See also:Music See also:Lesson of See also:Confucius (1870), See also:Egyptian Sketch-book (1873), See also:Abraham See also:Lincoln (1879), The See also:Minor Arts (188o), See also:Algonquin Legends of New See also:England (1884), Songs of the See also:Sea and See also:Lays of the See also:Land (1895), Hans Breitmann in Tyrol (1895), One See also:Hundred Profitable Acts (1897), Unpublished Legends of Vergil (1899), Kuloskap the See also:Master, and other Algonquin Poems (1903, with J. Dyneley See also:Prince).
See his See also:Memoirs (2 vols., 1893), and E. R. See also:Pennell, C. G. Leland (1906).
End of Article: LELAND, CHARLES GODFREY (1824-1903)
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