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* LESLEY. 154 LESLIE. LESLEY, .r. rKTKi! ( 1S10-HI03). All Anioii- can geologist, born in Pliiludclplua. He graduated at the L iiiver.sity of IViuisvlvaiiia in 18;!8, and then spoilt three "}•<-''> rs assisting Henry D. Rogers in the first geological survey of Pennsylvania. In 1841 he entered the Princeton Theological Seminary, and upon his graduation in 1S44 was licensed as a minister by tlie Presbytery of Pliiladclpliia. He then went to Eurnpe, where he traveled on foot through France, Savoy, Switzerland, and Gennany. and spent some time at the University of Halle. On his return to the United States, in 1845. he was sent by the American Tract Society into the mountainous regions of Pennsylvania, where he worked among the ignorant mountaineers until 1848, when he became pastor of a C'ongregationalist church in Wilton, Mass. Two years later he resigned, be- cause of a change in his religious belief.s. and returned to Philadcl]ihia, where he became a professional geologist. He made c.tcnsive re- searches in the coal, oil, and iron fields of the United States and Canada, and became an ac- knowledged authoritj' on the coal-fields of North America. He was appointed secretary of the American Iron Association in 1855, s<>eretary and librarian of the American Philosophical Society in 1858, and State geologist of Pennsylvania in 1874. From 1872 until 1878 he was professor of geology- at the I'niversity of Pennsylvania, and in 188 was appointed emeritus professor there. The Pennsylvania Kailroad Company sent him to Europe in 1863 toeamine the Bessemer ir<m ■works, and in 18G7 the United States Senate appointed him one of the commissioners to the 'orlirs Fair in Paris. Besides the works w'liieh he edited, and the numerous papers by him which appeared in scientific magazines, he |niblishcd: A Manual of Coal and lis Topocjraphy ( 1850) ; Man's Origin and Destiny from the Platform of the Sciences (1868); The Iron Manufacturer's Guide (1858); Historical Hketch of Geological Explorations in I'eniisylrania (1876) ; and i'aul Dreifuss, His Holiday Abroad (1882). LESLIE, CiiARUjs (16.50-1722). A British J^acobite non-juror and controversialist. He was born in Dublin, Ireland, graduated at Trinity College. Dublin, removed to England in 1671, and began the stuily of law at the Temple, but soon abandoned this for divinity, and was admitted to orders in the Church of England in 1680, Returning to Ireland, he was appointed, in 1687, Chancellor of Connor. Living in Ireland at the time of the Revolution, he distinguished himself in disputations with the Roman Catholics in defense of Protestantism. Though a zealous Protestant, he adhered to King .lames, refusing to acknowledge William as his rightful sovereign. After the death of .James II. he transferred his allegiance to his son. the Pretender, and was sent by some opulent Jacobite gentlemen, in 1709, to Bar-!e-Duc to convert him : when the Pretender removed to Italy he accompanied him. In 1721 he obtained permission from George I. to return to his native land, and took up his abode at Glaslough, Ireland, where he died on April 13, 1722, His theological works excited much attention and have been frequently re- printed. The most prominent are: GalUenus Rediriviis (1605), which gives the facts of the massacre of Glencoe: The Snake in the Grass (1606): .1 Short and Ensx) Method trith the Deists (1698); A Short and Easy Method uilh the Jews (1699); The Truth of Christianity Demonstrated (1711). In his political contro- versies he was the advocate of high monarchical principles. His collected works were published in two volumes (London, 1721), and reprinted in seven volumes (0.ford, 1832). LESLIE, Cii.vRLEs Robert (1T94-I859). An English genre painter, of American descent. He was born in London. October 19. 1794. of Ameri- can iiarenlage. His father, a watchmaker of Philadelphia, died in 1803, upon his return to that city, leaving his family destitute. Charles Robert was apprenticed to ci book.seller, but evinced great aptitude for drawing, and at the age of seventeen he drew a jrortrait of the actor George Frederic Cooke, which was esteemed so e.eclleiit that a subscription was raised to enable him to study abroad for two years. In 1811 he went to London, and was hospitably received by Ben.iamin West, president of the Royal Academy. He became one of a group of Americans, among whom were the painters Alcston and King, Wash- ington In'ing, and .John Constable. His first picture exhibited at the Academy was a melodramatic production, entitled "Murder" (1813). Not until after his visit to Paris, in 1817, did he exhibit his special talent, the paint- ing of humorous historical genre, in his "Sir Roger de Coverley Going to Church," During this period he designed illustrations for Irving's Kiiieherboelcer History of Xcu- York and Sketch- Book, also painting his portrait. In 1822 "May- day Revels in the Time of Queen Elizabeth" secured his election as an associate of the Academy. In compan.y with Sir Edmund Land- seer he yisited Sir Walter Scott at Abbotsford in 1824. and jiainted his portrait. In 1825 he mar- ried Jliss Stone, a celebrated beauty, and in 1826 lie became an Academician, Elected professor of drawing at West Point in 1833, he returned to London after a trial of a few months. In 1838 he was summoned to Windsor to paint the "Queen Receiving the Sacrament After the Coronation," now in Buckingham Palace, He was professor of painting at the Roval Academy from 1848 to 1852, and published his admirable lectures to the students as a Handbook for Young Painters (1855). Other works are: The Memoirs of Constable (1865), whose merits he was among the first to recognize: an incomplete Life of lieynolds (1865) ; and his own Autobiographical Recollections (1860). the two last edited by Tom Taylor. Leslie died at Saint John's Wood, Lon- don, May 5, 1859, Leslie is eliiefl.v famous as an illustrator of humorous incidents taken from the great authors. His humor is refined and delightful, and no one has entered more into the spirit of the author. He is a good draughtsman and a skillful com- poser, but his coloring, especially in his later works, is harsh. The shadows are too black, and there are no middle tones to harmonize them with the light portions. The best known of his pictures is "L^ncle Toby and the Widow Wad- man" (1831), in the 'National Gallery, The South Kensington Museum contains, besides rep- licas, three subjects from Moli&re. "The Dinner at ;Mr. P.age's House" (1838), and others. In the collection of Lord Leconfield at Petworth. in Sussex, are the originals of the "Taming of the Shrew" (1832. replica at South Kensington), "Sancho Panza in the Apartments of the Duehess" (1828), and three others. Two of the