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LEFT LEITH 451 LEMAITRE eminently a literary center; besides pos- sessing a noble university and various fine libraries and scientific institutions, it is the grand emporium of the German book trade. The great sale of new works takes place at the Easter fair. Among its chief manufactures are jilk goods, stockings, leather, hats, playing-cards, paper hangings, tallow- chandlery, 'gold and silver wares, liquors, etc. Leipsic and vicinity was, in October, 1813, the scene of one of the most tremendous battles of modern times. Napoleon I. having concentrated at this point an army of about 135,000 men, was attacked on the 16th by the allies under Prince Schwartzenberg, Bliicher, and other generals, accompanied by the Em- perors of Russia and Austria and the King of Prussia. The allied force amounted to at least 250,000 men. The struggle, which was fierce, obstinate, and bloody, terminated at nightfall without advantage to either party. The next day passed over with the same results. On the 18th, shortly after the renewal of the fighting, a Saxon brigade deserted the French, and went over to the allies, which gave the latter an advantage that all the genius of Napoleon could not counteract. Though the French main- tained their ground during the day, a retreat became indispensable; and owing to the accidental blowing up of the bridge, a part of the French army was cut off; thus, Napoleon lost 25,000 men, who fell into the hands of the allies as prisoners, exclusive of the far greater number who fell in the previous battles. Prince Poniatowski ("the last of the Poles"), after displaying prodigies of valor, lost his life in the retreat on the 19th, having been drowned in attemping to cross the Elster. This great battle completely emancipated Germany from the French yoke. In 1913 a great monu- ment 300 feet high was unveiled to cele- brate the victory. Pop. about 630,000. LEITH, the 6th largest town in Scot- land, an important seaport, on the S. shore of the Firth of Forth, 2 miles N. of Edinburgh (q. v,), with which it is now connected by a continuous line of street. Pop. (1918) 83,828. LEITHA, an Austrian stream rising in Lower Austria, and flowing N. E. to join the Danube nearly along the fron- tier of Lower Austria and Hungary. Since the reorganization of the empire in 1867, it has become usual to speak of Hungary and the lands belonging to the Hungarian crown as Trans-leithan, and the rest of the empire as Cis-leithan — thus giving the stream a factitious im- portance. LELAND, CHARLES GODFREY, an American author; born in Philadelphia, Pa., Aug. 15, 1824. He was graduated at Princeton College in 1845, and after- ward studied at Heidelberg, Munich, and Paris. He was admitted to the Philadel- phia bar in 1849, but turned to journal- ism. From 1869 he resided chiefly in England, and investigated the language and customs of the gipsies, a subject on which between 1873 and 1890 he pub- lished four valuable works. Leland is most widely known, however, for his dia- lect 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), and "Algonquin Legends" (1884). In 1885 he edited a series of "Art-Work Manuals." He died at Flor- ence, Italy, March 20, 1903. LELAND, JOHN, an English anti- quary; born in London, England, about 1506. After a residence in Paris he be- came chaplain to Henry VIII., who in 1533, commissioned him as "king's anti- quary," with power to search for records of antiquity in the cathedrals, colleges, abbeys, and priories of England. His Church preferments were the rectories of Pofeling, in the marches of Calais, and Haseley in Oxfordshire, a canonry of King's College (now Christ Church), Oxford, and a prebend of Salisbury. His last five years were darkened by in- sanity. Died April 18, 1552. LELAND STANFORD, JUNIOR, UNIVERSITY, a co-educational non- sectarian institution in Palo Alto, Cal. ; founded in 1891; reported at the close of 1919: Professors and instructors, 345; students, 2,441 ; volumes in the library, about 300,000; productive funds, about $25,000,000; income, $1,400,000; number of graduates, 1,142; president, Ray Ly- man Wilbur, M.D. LELY, SIR PETER, an Anglo-Dutch painter; born in Soest, Westphalia, in 1617. He settled in London in 1641 and took to portrait painting, having hither- to essayed landscapes and historical sub- jects. He was employed successively by Charles I., Cromwell, and Charles II. From the death of Vandyck he was the first painter of the day in England down to the arrival of Kneller. His best known pieces, apart from portraits of his royal patrons, are the beauties of the court of Charles II. at Hampton Court. He died in London, England, Nov. 30, 1680. LEMAITRS, FRANCOIS ELIE JULES (le-matrO, a FrencK dramatist;