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LEFT LEGNAGO 449 LEICESTER in others the terms "general court" and "legislative assembly" are employed. In all the States the Legislature is com- posed of two houses, though Pennsylva- nia, up to 1790, and Vermont, up to 1836, had but one house. The upper house is called the Senate in the States, and the Council in the Territories; the lower is called the House of Representatives in the Territories and most of the States, but is known as the House of Delegates, the Assembly, or the General Assembly, in a few of the States. LEGNAGO (len-ya'go), one of the four fortified towns of Northern Italy, knoviTi as the Quadrilateral. It has a considerable trade in rice, corn, and silk. The fortifications were razed by Napo- leon in 1801, but rebuilt 14 years later. LEGUMINOS^, leguminous plants, an order of perigynous exogens, alliance Rosales. Known genera 297, species 4,700, diffused, though not equally, all over the globe. It is divided into three sub-orders, Papilionaceie, Csesalpiniex, and Mimosese. LEH, the walled capital of Ladakh, State of Kashmir, India; 3 miles from the bank of the Indus, 11,538 feet above the sea; is one of the chief markets of the trade between Tibet and Chinese Tur- kestan on the one hand and the Punjab on the other. Pop. about 4,000. LEHIGH, a river which flows 120 miles through Eastern Pennsylvania to the Delaware River. Its scenery is very- picturesque, and the valley is famous for its rich mines of anthracite coal, LEHIGHTON, a borough of Pennsyl- vania, in Carbon co. It is on the Lehigh Coal and Navigation Canal, and on the Lehigh Valley and the Central of New Jersey railroads. Its industries include silk and lace mills, a meat-packing house, a shirt factory, car shops, stone works, foundries, etc. It contains two parks. Pop. (1910) 5,316; (1920) 6,102. ^ LEHIGH UNIVERSITY, an educa- tional non-sectarian institution in South Bethlehem, Pa.; founded in 1865; re- ported at the close of 1919: Professors and instructors, 90; students, 1,100; vol- umes in the library, 140,000; productive funds, $3,000,000; income, $450,000; president, Henry S. Drinker, LL. D. LEHMANN, FREDERICK WIL- LIAM, an American lawyer and public official, born in Prussia in 1853. He graduated from Tabor College, Iowa, in 1873. After studying law he was ad- mitted to the bar in 1873 and practiced in Nebraska City, Des Moines, Iowa, and St. Louis. He served as solicitor-genera of the United States from 1910 to 1912. He served on several important commis- sions and was United States delegate to the A. B. C. mediation at Niagara Falls. LEHMANN, LILLI, a German oper- atic singer, born in 1848, at Wurzburg. She received her first lessons in music from her mother, who was also an opera singer. She made her first appearance in Berlin in 1870, and was at once suc- cessful. She afterwards sang in London, and in 1884 came to New York, where she was engaged as the principal soprano at the Metropolitan Opera House. She remained here until 1890. She then re- turned to Germany, where in 1901 she organized the Mozart Festivals in Salz- burg. She was considered one of the greatest Wagnerian singers of her day. LEIBNITZ, or LEIBNIZ, GOTT- FRIED WILHELM VON, BARON, a German philosopher and scholar; born in Leipsic, July 6, 1646. His learning was universal, and in every branch he was master. At 15 he entered Leipsic University for the study of law and phi- losophy. He then passed to Jena, devot- ing himself there chiefly to mathematics. In the meantime he composed two disqui- sitions, to qualify himself for a degree at Leipsic; the degree was refused because of his youth, but in 1666 he took the doc- tor's degree in law at Altdorf. He reached the highest eminence among the scholars of his time in languages, history, divinity, philosophy, jurisprudence, polit- ical science, physical science, mathe- matics, even in polite letters. His essays and disquisitions in the field of mere eru- dition are numerous, such as the "Acta Eruditorum," "Miscellanea Berolinensia," "Journal des Savants," and in his vol- uminous "Correspondence." Among his theological and philosophical writings are: "Essays on God's Goodness, Man's Freedom, and the Origin of Evil" (1710) ; "Principles of Nature and Grace," (1717) ; "New Essays on the Human Un- derstanding"; "Refutation of Spinoza," first printed in 1854. An incomplete edi- tion of his "Mathematical Works" was published in 11 volumes (1884). He died in Hanover, Nov. 14, 1716. LEICESTER (les'ter), ROBERT DUDLEY, EARL OF, an English noble and favorite of Queen Elizabeth; born June 24, 1532, or 1533. Or the accession of Elizabeth to the throne, Dudley met vdth rapid preferment, winning th6 queen's regard by his courtly address and handsome person. In 1560, his first wife, Amy Robsart, died, not without sus- picion of violence. In 1564 Dudley be- came chancellor of Oxford University