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 LELAND

LE MOYNE

1861-62, for the sole purpose of advancing the emancipation of the slaves. The degree of A.M. conferred on him by Harvard university in 1867 was specified to be " for political services ren- dered to his country during the civil war." In 1865 he travelled through Kentucky, Tennessee and western Virginia in the interest of coal and petroleum speculations. He was managing editor of the Philadelphia Press, 1866-69, and engaged in literary work in London, England, 1869-80. He established with Mrs. R. Jebb in 1880 the sub- sequently widely extended British Home Arts and Industries association. He was one of the original founders of the Folk-Lore congress at Paris in 1889, and discovered the " Shelta " lan- guage, spoken by Celtic tinkers and others of that class, which was afterward verified by Kuno Meyer from a manuscript 1000 years old as the famous lost artificial language of the Irish bards. He was elected a fellow of tlie American Associa- tion for the Advancement of Science and an hon- orary fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in London. He was married, Jan. 17, 1856, to Elizabetli, daughter of Rodney Fisher, of Phila- delphia. He was editorially employed on Apple- ton's and Johnson's cyclopaedias and contributed to tliem about 300 articles. His' system of the minor arts as a branch of school education intro- duced first in Pliiladelphia, 1880, by him person- ally, and subsequently through the English Home Arts association, passed to hundreds of institu- tions, schools and classes in Great Britain and was also adopted in Austria and especially in fifty of the chief Hungarian government schools. Dur- ing his residence in Europe he travelled in Rus- sia, Egypt, Sweden and Norway, lived fifteen years in Italy and became a -member of many oriental, folk-lore, social science and other con- gresses, at all of which he read papers in the local language. He was officially recognized as sug- gester or founder of the Hungarian and Italian folk-lore societies, and he was elected president of the Gypsy Lore society of Buda-Pest, formerly of England. He is the author of : TJie Poetry and Mystery of Dreams (1855); Mister Karl's Sketch- jBooA; (1855); Pictures of Travel, translated from Heinrich Heine (1856), subsequently followed by a translation of nearly all the works of Heine is- svied in London by Heinemann (1890); Siaishine in Thought (1862); The Book of Copperheads (1863); Mother Pitcher's Poems (1863); Legends of Birds (1864); To Kansas and Back (1866); Union versus States Rights (1863); The Music Lesson of Confucius and Other Poems (1870); Gaudeamus (1871); The Ballads of Hans Breit- mau (1871); France, Alsace and Lorraine (1872); Egyptian Sketch Book (1873) ; English Gypsies and their Language (1873); Fu Sang, or the Dis- covery of America by Chinese Buddhist Priests in

the Fifth Century (1875) ; English Gypsy Songs, in collaboration with Janet Tuckey and Prof. Ed- ward H. Palmer (1875); Johannykin andthe Gob- lins (1876); Pidgin-English Sing-Song {1876); Life of Abraham Lincoln (1879); The Minor Arts (1880); The Gypsies (1882); Lndustrial Education (1883); The Algonquin Legends of New England (1884); Practical Education (1888); Manual of Wood Carving (1891); Gypsy Sorcery (1891); Leather TT'orA;, Metal Work and Manual of De- sign (1892); Etruscan-Roman Remains (1892); Legends of Florence {18Q5) ; Memoirs (1895); Un- published Lessons of Virgil (1899) ; Songs of the Sea and Lays of the Land (1899) ; Have You a Strong Will ? (1899) ; One Hundred Profitable Arts (1900) ; Arodis, or Gospel of the Witches (1900) ; and in 1901 had in preparation Lessons in Nature. He died in Florence, Italy, in 1903.

LELAND, Henry Perry, author, was born in Philadelphia. Pa., Oct. 28, 1828; son of Charles and Cliarlotte Frost (Godfrey) Leland. He en- tered the University of Pennsylvania in 1844, left in 1846, and engaged as a clerk. He studied art in Rome, Italy, 1846-47, and spent several years in travel in America and Europe. He served as 1st lieutenant in the 118th Pennsylvania regi- ment of volunteers in 1861, and as private and sergeant in Landis's Pennsylvania battery, 1862- 63. He received a contusion of the spine from a fragment of shell at Carlisle, Pa., in July, 1863, from the effects of which he subsequently died. He devoted much of his time to literature, con- tributing poems and sketches to magazines and newspapers, and was one of the first to perceive the genius of Walt Wliitman, predicting his fu- ture success. Whitman declared that during one year of his life, when he was almost in de- spair at his ill-success, a letter from Mr. Leland had revived his spirits and encouraged him to renewed exertion. Mr. Leland sjjoke SiJanish, Italian and French. He collaborated with his brother, Charles G. Leland, in mucli literary work, and was half-author and illustrator of " The Book of Copperlieads," so much prized and praised by Abraham Lincoln that a copy of it, much thumbed, and one other work of luimor, were the only books found in the President's desk after his death. Mr. Leland is the author of : TJie Gray Bay Mare and other Humorous Am3rican Sketches (1856) ; Tlie Jumping Frog. afterward rewritten by Mark Twain, and Amer- icans in Rome (1863). He died in Philadelphia, Pa., Sept. 22, 1868.

LE nOYNE, Francis Julius, educationist, was born in Washington, Pa., Sept. 4, 1798; son of Dr. John Julius de Villiers and Nancy (Mc- Cully) Le Moyne. He was graduated from Washington college, 1815, and from Jefferson Medical college, 1822, and was a pliysician in