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Rh  civilized by Le Jeune. He ceased to be superior in 1639, and in 1649 returned to France, where he was made procurator of the foreign missions. In 1658 he was selected by Anne of Austria for the new bishopric that was to be erected in Canada, but the Jesuits represented to her that their rules did not permit them to accept such a dignity. His works are "Briève relation du voyage de la Nouvelle France," the first of the "Relations" on New France which the Jesuits continued to 1672, and which form one of the best sources of information with regard to the North American Indians (Paris, 1632); "Relation de ce qui s'est passé en la Nouvelle France en l'année 1633" (1634); and seven other "Relations," ending with that of 1660-'1 (1662). He also wrote many devotional works, some of which became very popular.

LELAND, Aaron, clergyman, b. in Holliston, Mass., 28 May, 1761; d. in Chester, Vt., 25 Aug., 1833. He received a common-school education, was ordained as a Baptist minister about 1786. settled in Chester, Vt., and built up a church from which sprang those at Andover and Grafton, Mass., Weathersfield and Jamaica, Vt., and other places. He was an earnest Jeffersonian Democrat, sat in the legislature from 1801 till 1811, during which period he was thrice elected speaker, was a councillor for four years, and for five successive years elected lieutenant-governor of Vermont. He also served as an assistant justice of the county court for eighteen years. In 1828 he was proposed as a candidate for governor, but declined the nomination, being unwilling to desert the pulpit, in which he was an effective orator.

LELAND, Charles Godfrey, author, b. in Philadelphia, Pa., 15 Aug., 1824. Before he was fifteen years of age he began to contribute short poems to newspapers. He was graduated at Princeton in 1846, afterward studied aesthetics, history, philosophy, and the modern languages in the universities of Heidelberg and Munich, and then went to Paris, where he attended lectures at the Sorbonneand the Collége Louis-le-Grand, and was one of the American deputation that congratulated the provisional fovernment after the revolution of February, 1848. In October, 1848, he returned to Philadelphia, where he studied law, and was admitted to the bar in 1851. He soon relinquished that profession, and became a contributor to the "Knickerbocker Magazine," for which he had begun to write while a student in college, the "International Magazine," "Sartain's," "Graham's," and other periodicals. He resided for some time in New York city, where he edited the "Illustrated News," but returned to Philadelphia in 1855, and was connected with the "Evening Bulletin" three years. At the beginning of the civil war he wrote in support of a vigorous National policy in the "Knickerbocker Magazine," and established in Boston the "Continental Magazine," in which he proposed and urged the emancipation of the slaves. He returned to Philadelphia in 1863, and wrote and made the illustrations for a political satire entitled "The Book of Copperheads." In 1865 he engaged in speculations in the coal and petroleum fields, and travelled through Kentucky, Tennessee, and West Virginia. On his return to Philadelphia he became editor of the "Press," which was prosperous under his management. After travelling through the west he went to Europe in May, 1869, and remained till 1880, residing chiefly in London, and while there he pursued original investigations into the history, language, and customs of the Gypsy race. When he returned to Philadelphia he introduced and supervised a system of industrial-art education in the public schools. Mr. Leland is the author of "The Poetry and Mystery of Dreams," containing the fruit of curious researches in ancient and modern literature (Philadelphia, 1855): "Meister Karl's Sketch-Book," a collection of sketches of foreign travel and other articles reprinted from magazines (1855); "Pictures of Travel," translated from the German of Heinrich Heine (1856); "Sunshine in Thought" (New York, 1862); "Legends of Birds" (Philadelphia, 1864); "To Kansas and Back," a pamphlet describing a journey to the far west (1866): and a pamphlet on the "Union Pacific, Eastern Division" (1867). His most popular works were the "Hans Breitmann Ballads" (complete ed., Philadelphia, 1871), the first of which humorous dialect poems were, so much admired that he composed an extended series, burlesquing peculiarities of character, as well as of thought and speech among the ruder type of German Americans. His later works are "The Music-Lesson of Confucius, and other Poems," in which he seeks to harmonize the Christian religion with the antique sentiments of joy and beauty (London, 1870); "Gaudeamus," a translation of humorous poems by Josef V. Schefel and other German writers (1871); "Egyptian Sketch-Book" (1873); "The English Gypsies and their Language" (1873); "Fu-Sang. or the Discovery of America by Chinese Buddhist Priests in the Fifth Century" (1875); "English Gypsy Songs," in collaboration with Janet Tuckey and Prof. Edward H. Palmer (1875); "Johnnykin and the Goblins" (1876): "Pidgin-English Sing-Song" (1876); "Abraham Lincoln" (1879); "The Minor Arts" (1880); "The Gypsies" (1882); and "The Algonquin Legends of New England" (1884). In connection with the educational movement that he set on foot he edited a series of "Art-Work Manuals" (1885), containing instructions for ceramic painting, brass repoussé work, leather work, papier-maché work, stencilling, and wood-carving. He now (1887) resides in London, England.—His brother, Henry Perry, author, b. in Philadelphia, Pa., 28 Oct., 1828; d. there, 22 Sept., 1868, was a frequent contributor in prose and verse to newspapers and magazines. He was an extensive traveller, and a student in various departments of knowledge, and possessed a vein of humor that pervades his writings. While serving as a lieutenant in the 118th Pennsylvania regiment during the civil war, he was prostrated by a sunstroke, from the effects of which he never fully recovered. He published "The Grey Bay Mare, and other Humorous American Sketches" (Philadelphia, 1856), and a volume of sketches of foreign travel, entitled "Americans in Rome" (1863).

LELAND, Henry, artist, b. in Walpole, Mass., in 1850: d. in Paris, France, 5 Dec, 1877. He engaged in mercantile pursuits in Boston till 187-1, when he resolved to be an artist, and became a pupil of Bonnat in Paris. Here his short career was marked by rapid success. His early death was the result of an accident. In 1876 he exhibited the portrait of Mlle. d'Alembert at the Paris salon, and in 1877 "A Chevalier of the Time of Henry III." and "An Italian Girl."

LELAND, John, clergyman, b. in Grafton, Mass., 14 May, 1754; d. in North Adams, Mass., 14 Jan., 1841. He was educated as a Congregationalist, but, adopting Baptist tenets, was licensed as a preacher in 1774, and in 1775 removed to Virginia, where until 1791, with the exception of occasional visits to the north, he was actively employed in discharging the duties of his office. He resided at first in Culpepper county, but on account of difficulties in his church removed to Orange