Leland
Leland names 2 different subjects across the 6 encyclopedias on this shelf. Each is set out below.
Leland CHARLES GODFREY, an in Philadelphia Pa
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
CHARLES GODFREY, an in Philadelphia Pa., Aug. 15, 1824, He was graduated fine libraries and at Princeton at Heidelberg, Munich, and ward studied Paris. place are resided chiefly in phia bar in 1849, but turned to journalsilk goods, ism. From 1869 he paper hangings, tallow England, and investigated the language gipsies, a subject on language and customs of the and 1890 he puba subject on 1890 he pubwhich between 1873 works. Leland is lished four valuable , however, for his dia- Leland is en for his diamost widely known Dutch," the lect poems in "Pennsylvania Hans Breitmann Ballads" mis Dutch," the famous " Poetry Ballads" re "The Poetry (1871). Other works are "The Dreams" 月” (1855) (1855), and Mystery of Sketch Book "Meister Karl's " (1855), Birds" (1864), "Fu-Sang" Book" (1855), "Legends 34), "Fu-Sang and "Algonquin Legends" of series of (1875), (1884). In 1885 he edited a died at Flor- "Art-Work Manuals." He 1903. le med at Flor ence, Italy, March 20,
Leland JOHN, an English anti- England
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
JOHN, an English anti- England, about English antiquary; born in London, a residence in Paris he be- England, about 1506. After ., who in in Paris he be came chaplain to Henry VIII him as "king's anti- VIII., who 1533, commissioned search for records "king's ant quary," with power to the cathed als, colleges, rch for r of antiquity in of England. His oleg als abbeys, and priories were the rectories of England. Church preferments of Calais, and the rectories c Pofeling, in the marches , a canonry of of Calais, an Haseley in Oxfordshire Ch Christ Church), canonry King's College (now Salisbury arist Church Oxford, and a prebend of . were darkened by inof Salisbur His last five years , 1552. Hackened by is sanity. Died April 18
What Has Changed in the Last Century
When Collier's wrote in 1921 it ranked Charles Godfrey Leland chiefly by the comic "Hans Breitmann Ballads" of 1871, then still widely recited; those dialect verses are now almost unread. The book it omits, "Aradia, or the Gospel of the Witches" (1899), turned out to be his most consequential: Gerald Gardner and later Wiccans drew on it from the 1950s, and it remains in print as a founding text of modern pagan witchcraft, though most folklorists doubt Leland's claim to have had it from a Tuscan informant. His "Fu-Sang" (1875), arguing Chinese Buddhists reached America in the fifth century, has not survived scholarly scrutiny, while his "Algonquin Legends" (1884) is still consulted. For John Leland, the antiquary's own "Itinerary" has since been re-edited by Lucy Toulmin Smith (1906-10) and his Latin catalogue of British writers by James Carley, and he is now valued above all as the last man to see many monastic libraries before their dispersal at the Dissolution.
Written for this edition, 2026.