CHARLES GODFREY LELAND BIOGRAPHY
CHARLES GODFREY LELAND BIOGRAPHY from the Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John Cousin.
LELAND, CHARLES GODFREY (1824-1903). —American humorist, born at Philadelphia, was ed. at Princeton, and in Europe. In his travels he made a study of the gipsies, on whom he wrote more than one book. His fame rests chiefly on his Hans Breitmann Ballads (1871), written in the patois known as Pennsylvania Dutch. Other books of his are Meister Karl's Sketch-book (1855), Legends of Birds (1864), Algonquin Legends (1884), Legends of Florence (1895), and Flaxius, or Leaves from the Life of an Immortal .