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* LEKAIN. 114 LELAND STANFOBD UNIVERSITY. LEKAIN, Ifkfi.N', llE.NRi Lons (1728-78). A Freiicli tragedian. He was born in Paris; es- tablisliod a private theatre, and with Voltaire's help beeanie popular, and finally appeared at the Thf'iltre Fran(ais. His voice and figure were bad, but study greatly improved the former, and his sympathetic power soon won him great suc- cess and a place among the most famous French tragic actors. His Mcmoircs were reprinted in Paris, under the direction of Talma, in 1828. I/. E. X. The initials and nom-dcplume of Letitia Elizabeth Landon, later Jlrs. Maclean. LE'LAND, <'ii.Ki.E.s Goni'HEY ( 1824-1 i)0.'5). An American poet, journalist, humorist, and mis- cellaneous wrilc^r, l)(iin in I'liiladclpliia, August 1.5. 1824. Some years before bis graduation at Princeton, in 1845, his precocious talent luul found voice in sliort poems contribute<l to the newspapers. After graduation he studied at Heidelberg, ilunicli, and Paris, and was one of the American dejiutation to congratulate the French Provisional Government on the Revolu- tion of 1848, in the course of which he joined the students of the Latin (^imirtcr behind the Paris barricades. In that year he returned to Philadel])hia, studied law, was admitted to the bar in 18.51, coiitinucd to write for periodicals, and soon devoted liiiuself entirely to literature and to editorial and journalistic work. He nuide a special study of Gyi'^V language and histoiy and attained much reputation both as a German scholar and as a describer of German and Ger- man-American life. T.eland's widely read linns Brritmann's liiiUtulx tell, in the patois called 'Pennsylvania ])>ileh,' many humonpus conceits and droll adventures of their clownish hero. I^x-- land himself was sometimes spoken of as "Hans Breitmann.' He wrote, however, under his own name. Leland's editorial work took him f(u- a time to New York, but he returned to Philadel- phia in 18,5.5, and in 1861 established in Boston the Coiiliiicitlal Mnimzine. He soon returned to Philadelphia, however; traveled in the -Middle West, and was from ISfiO to 18Sfl resident cbielly in London, pursuing Gypsy studies. Returning to Phila<lelpliia, he was active in furthering in- dustrial-art education in the public schools, and wrote for this purpose seveial manuals, after his visit to the LTnited States in 1880; but thenceforward he lived in Europe and he died in Florence, Italy, JIarch 20, 1903. His published volumes comprise, among others: The I'ikIiii and M i/xlirii of Drcnm.i (1855) ; Meisicr Karl's f2) : Brine's Book of floti!)s (18f)2) ; he(jends of Birds (1804) ; Hans BrcHmann's Ballads, his best known work; Hans fircitmann About Toirn and Other Xew Ballads; IJans Breitmann in Poli- lics: Ilans Breitmann and His Philoso/iedr : Hans Breitmann's Parti/, vith Other Xcn- Ballads; Hans Breitmann as an Uhlan (1S67-70; com- plete ed.. Philadelphia. 1871: London. 1872; new ed. 1874) ; The }fusic Lesson of Confucius, philosophic verses (1870); Gaudeamus, songs translated from the German (1871); Etjyjitian f>ketch Book (187.'?) : Enfilish fli/psies and Their hanqunfie (1873); Enplish (li/psif Sonr/s (187.5, in collaboration) ; Fn-Sanr/. or the Discoreri/ of America hi/ Chinese Buddhist Priests in the Fifth Century (1875); Johnnykin and the Oohlins (1876); Pidgin-English Singsong (1876); Abra- ham Lincoln (1870); The Minor Arts (1880); The Gypsies (1882) ; Algonquin Legends of Aeio England (1884); Autobiographical Memoirs (1893) ; Songs of the Sea and Lays of the Land (1895) ; Hans Breitmann in Tyrol (1895) ; One Hundred Profitahle Acts (1897); and The Un- published Legends of Vergil (1899). His last work wa.s a volume of Indian folklore verses (1903), called Kuloskap the Master, and Other Atgoiikin Poems. This was done in collaboration with ])r. .Tcilui Tynely Prince. LELAND, .John" (1G9I-17C6). An English divine and Ciiristian apologist. He was born at Wigan, in Lancashire: became a Dissenting minister in Dublin, and first appeared a.s an author in 1733 by publishing a reply to Tindal's deistical work, Christianity as Old as the Crea- tion. In 1739 appeared another apology. The Divine Authority of the Old and Nen^ Testament Asserted .igainst the Unjust Asjiersions and False Reasonings of n Book entitled "The Moral Philosopher'' ( liy- Henry Jlorgan). He also at- tacked Henry Dodwell and Bolingbroke. His best work is A YieiD of the Principal Deistical Writers that Have .ippcared in England ( 1754-50) . which once held a high position in Christian apologetic literature. Consult Weld's memoir in Leland's Discourses (1708-09). LELAND, or LEYLAND, John (c.l500-.52). An English antiquary. After a thorough study of the ancient and modern languages at Cam- bridge, Oxford, and Paris, he took holy orders, and in 1533 received from Henry Vlll. the imique office of King's Antiquary. In this position he explored the antiquities of the various religious and educational institutions of the Kingdom, and visited every nook and corner of the country for the purpose of examining the topography as well as the arclupological relies. Though a laboriotis historian, he was credulous and unsystematic. His principal works were: A Xew Yearc's Gift to King Henry VIII. in the 37th Ycare of His Kaygnc (1540); Coi«- mcntarii de Scri/itoribus ISritannicis (2 vols., 1709) ; Itinerary of England (1710-12) ; and De Rebus Britaiinicis Collectanea (171.5). Some of his autograpliic manuscripts finally made their way into the Bodleian Library. Oxford; others into the British iluseuni. L'ater historians have found them a great store of information. His laliors so overtaxed his mind that during the last two years of his life he was insane. Consult Burton, Life of John Lcland (the First English .intiquary), u-ith Xotes and a Bibliography of His ^Vorks, including those in MS., printed from a hitherto Unpublished YVork (London. 1890). LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNI- ■VERSITY. A eo-pdueational institiitiou of higher learning at Palo Alto. Gal., founded by Leland Stanford (q.v. ) and his wife, Jane Lath- rop Stanford, in niemorv of their only child. Inland Stanford, Jr.. who died in 1884. The grant of endowment was made in 1885, the cor- nerstone of the first building was laid in 1887, and the university was opened to students in 1891. The original endowment consisted of about 90.000 acres of land in variois parts of Califor- nia, including the Palo Alto estate of some 9000 acres, constituting the site of the imiversity; the Vina estate of 59,000 acres in Tehama County; and the Gridley estate of 22.000 acres in Butte Coimty. By the will of Mr. Stanford the uni- versity received .$2,500,000, and after his death