Our navigation bar is loading . . .

 


 

Jesus Christ Saves Ministries

Helping San Diego, California and beyond since 1997

Click here to subscribe and connect!     




 

 

JCSM's Top 1000 Christian Sites - Free Traffic Sharing Service!

Click here and add this page to your favorites!

Return to the JCSM Study Center!

Encyclopedia Britannica



LELAND, CHARLES GODFREY (1824-1903)

This article appears in Volume V16, Page 405 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

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


End of Article: LELAND, CHARLES GODFREY (1824-1903)


If you wish, you can link directly to this article.
<a href="http://jcsm.org/StudyCenter/Encyclopedia/LAP_LEO/LELAND_CHARLES_GODFREY_1824_19.html">
LELAND, CHARLES GODFREY (1824-1903)
</a>
(Previous)
LELAND STANFORD JR 		(Next)
LELAND, JOHN (16911766)

 


 
 


Jesus Christ Saves Ministries was founded in 1997 and it exists to help the community and bring people into a life-changing and productive relationship with Jesus Christ. JCSM offers over 200,000 free web pages, including its weekly inspirational emails that were sent continuously for over a decade.

Jesus Christ Saves Ministries
P.O. Box 9297
San Diego, CA  92169
1-888-887-0417 or Email

JCSM is a 501(c)(3), non-profit organization. Copyright © 1997-2010.
 

 

Sponsored Advertisements

Online First Aid and CPR Certification  .  DHA Solutions  .  PB Happy Hour Specials  .  Improvising Made Easy For Guitar and Bass  .  iPhone Video and Audio Recording Services  .  San Diego Bodyboarding  .  The Skeptic's Annotated Bible: Corrected and Explained  .  Home Equity Loans  .  First Aid and CPR Online  .  Online First Aid and CPR Certification Blog  .  San Diego Music Lessons  .  My Life Beach Blog  .  10,000 Wise Quotes and Spiritual Sayings  .  Maximizing the Internet: 12 Keys to Success  .  Maximizing the Internet Blog  .  San Diego DUI Lawyers  .  Post Your Ad Link Free  .  Michael Newdow  .  Classy Cali Collectives  .  San Diego Soccer Training  .  Christian Guitar and Music Lessons  .  Jesus Christ Saves Ministries  .  Download Sermons  .  Custom Religious Banners, Build A Sign  .  San Diego Sound Solutions  .  San Diego Day Spa  .  Christian Singles Dating