Leland, CHARLES GODFREY

Leland, CHARLES GODFREY, an American author, was born in Philadelphia, 15th August 1824, graduated at Princeton in 1846, and afterwards studied at Heidelberg, Munich, and Paris. He was admitted to the Philadelphia bar in 1851, but turned from law to journalism. From 1869 he resided chiefly in England, and investigated the language and customs of the Gypsies, a subject on which between 1873 and 1890 he published four valuable works. Leland is most widely known, however, for his dialect poems in 'Pennsylvania Dutch,' the famous Hans Breitmann Ballads (1871). Other works are The Poetry and Mystery of Dreams (1855), Meister Karl's Sketch-book (1855), Legends of Birds (1864), Fu-Sang (1875), Algonquin Legends (1884), Etruscan Remains and Popular Tradition (1892), Hans Breitmann in Tyrol (1895), besides a translation of Heine. See his autobiographical Memoirs (1893).