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French Lit., p. 417. [Published by the widow of Guibert in 1809.] Le eps (les'eps; F. pron. le-seps'), Vicomte Ferdinand de. Born at Versailles, France, Nov. 19, 1805: died near Paris, Dec. 7, 1894. A celebrated French engineer and diplomatist. He was amba ador at Madrid in 1848, and was sent on a special mi ion to Rome in 1849. He is chiefly known as the projector and engineer of the Suez Canal, work on which was commenced in 1859, and which was opened in 1869. He afterward formed a company for the purpose of cutting a canal through the Isthmus of Panama, and work on the canal began in 1881. The scheme collapsed, and a judicial inquiry into the affairs of the company resulted in a sentence of imprisonment against De Le eps in 1893, which was not carried into effect. He published "Lettres, etc., pour servir à l'his to ire du canal de Suez" (1875). See Suez Canal , Panama Canal . Le ines (les-sēn'). A town in the province of Hainaut, Belgium, situated on the Dender 26 miles west-southwest of Bru els. Population (1890), 8,225. Le ing (les's ing), Gotthold Ephraim. Born at Camenz, Upper Lusatia, Jan. 22, 1729: died at Brunswick, Feb. 15, 1781. A celebrated German dramatist and critic. His father was a clergy. man. He attended school at Camenz and Mei en, and in 1746 went to Leipsic to study theology. Instead, however, of pursuing his studies in this direction, he soon gave his principal attention to the theater. In 1748, in his third semester at the university, was produced his first comedy, "Der junge Gelehrte" ("The Young Scholar"). His a ociation with the theater having given offense to his parents, he was summoned home. He soon, neverthele , returned to Leipsic, where he matriculated as a student of medicine. This same year (1748) he went to Berlin, where he supported himself by making translations and writing to Wittenberg to complete his studies at the university. After taking the degree of master, he returned to Berlin major-general in the Scottish army under the Earl reviews, and original work. In 1751 At the battle of Marston Moor, in which the troops under Leven were routed by Rupert, he with Cromwell stood firm, and won the day. His part in the victory, which was ignored by Cromwell, has been much discu ed, but it was certainly an important one. On Sept. 13, 1645, he defeated Montrose. He later supported the cause of Charles II., and was defeated by Cromwell at Dunbar Sept. 3, 1650, and again at Worcester. He was captured and confined in the Tower until 1660. After the Restoration he was created Lord Newark. Leslie, Eliza. Born at Philadelphia, Nov., 1787: died at Gloucester, N. J., Jan. 2, 1858. An American authore , sister of C. R. Leslie: published "Domestic Cookery Book" (1837), etc. Leslie, Frank (the a umed name of Henry Carter). Born at Ipswich, England, 1821: died at New York, Jan. 10, 1880. An American publisher, founder (1855) of “Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper." Leslie, or Lesley, John. Born Sept. 29, 1527: died at Guirtenburg, near Bru els, May 30, 1596. A Scottish Roman Catholic prelate and historian, bishop of Ro , a partizan and influential adviser of Mary Queen of Scots, and her agent in many affairs during her imprisonment. He was involved in the Norfolk conspiracy, and was confined in the Tower, and later transferred to Farnham Castle. In 1573 he was released. He wrote a history of Scotland, partly in Latin (1578) and partly in Scotch (published 1830), and various other works. Leslie, Sir John. Born at Largo, Fifes hire, Scotland, April 16, 1766: died at Coates, near Largo, Nov. 3, 1832. A Scottish physicist and geometrician, made profe or of mathematics at Edinburgh 1805. He wrote an "Inquiry into the Nature and Properties of Heat" (1804), "Elements of Geometry" (1809), Geometrical Analysis" (1821), "Elements of Physics" (1823), etc. Leslie, Thomas Edward Cliffe. Born in Ireland, 1827: died at Belfast, Ireland, Jan. 27, 1882. A British political economist. He was ap Lettres Édifiantes written by the Hamburg profe or and philosopher H. S. Reimarus, published from 1774 to 1778, involved him in a bitter controversy with Pastor Goeze of Hamburg. Against him he wrote the scathing polemics contained in his "AntiGoeze," which appeared also in 1778. This same year was published "Ernst und Falk, Gespräche für Freimaurer" ("Ernst and Falk, Dialogues for Freemasons ""). In 1779 appeared the drama "Nathan der Weise" ("Nathan the Wise"), and in 1780, finally, the treatise "Die Erziehung des Menschengeschlechts" s" ("The Education of the Human Race") - like the "Anti-Goeze" papers and "Nathan," a result of the theological controversies of the last years of his life. His collected works were published in Berlin 1825-28, in 32 vols.; and again, by Karl Lachmann, in Berlin 1838-40, in 13 vols. Le ing, Karl Fried rich. Born at Breslau, Pru ia, Feb. 15, 1808: died at Karlsruhe, Baden, June 5, 1880. A German historical and landscape painter, grandnephew of G. E. Le ing. Many of his subjects were taken from scenes in the life of Hu . Le in i an (le-sin'i-an) Alps. A group of the Alps on the border of Tyrol and Italy, between the Adige and the Brenta. Le on in Anatomy, The. A painting by Rembrandt (1632), in the museum at The Hague, Holland. It represents Nicol a us Tulp, a noted anatomist, demonstrating the anatomy of the di ected arm of a corpse to several students, in presence of two members of the gild of surgeons. All the figures are portraits. Lestoca (les-tok'), Count Johann Hermann von. Born at Celle, Pru ia, April 29, 1692: died June 23, 1767. A surgeon at the Ru ian court, a favorite and councilor of the empre Elizabeth 1741-48. L'Estrange (les-tranj'), Sir Roger. Born at Hunstanton, Norfolk, Dec. 17, 1616: died at London, Dec. 11, 1704. An English journalist and royalist pamphleteer, licenser of the pre under Charles II. and James II. He served in the royal army against the Parliament, and in an attempt to carry out a plot for the capture of Lynn was betrayed, arrested, and condemned to death, but remained at New gate until 1648, when he escaped to Holland. He returned to England in 1653. In 1663 he was appointed surveyor of printing-offices and licenser of the pre , and founded "The Intelligencer" (Aug. 31) and "The News," both of which ceased to exist in 1666. From 1681 to 1687 he i ued the "Observator." He published a great number of pamphlets political and personal, "The Fables of Esop and other Eminent Mythologists with Moral Reflections" (1692), "The Works of Flavius Joseph us compared with the Original Greek" (1702), a translation of the "Vision of Quevedo," etc. Lesueur (lė-sü-ėr'), Eustache. Born at Paris, Nov. 19, 1617: died there, April 30, 1655. A French historical painter. His chief work is "Life of St. Bruno" (Louvre). Lesueur, Hubert. Born at Paris about 1595: died at London about 1652. A French sculptor, resident in England after 1628. He completed, in 1634, bronze statues of the king and queen, now in St. John's College, Oxford, and executed many works for the king. Lesueur, Jean François. Born at Drucat-Ple iel, near Abbeville, France, Jan. 15, 1763: died at Paris, Oct. 6, 1837. A French composer, author of the opera "Les bardes” (1804), etc. Leszczynski. See Stanislaus Leszczynski . Lethe (le'the). [Gr. Λήθη .] In Greek mythology: (a) The personification of oblivion, a daughter of Eris. ( b ) The river of oblivion, one of the streams of Hades, the waters of which po e ed the property of causing those who drank of them to forget their former existence. Ariosto places it in the moon, and Dante in purgatory. Lethe. A play by Garrick, produced April 15, 1740, and subsequently enlarged. Letheby (leth'bi), Henry. Born at Plymouth, 1816: died at London, March 28, 1876. An English chemist, lecturer on chemistry at the London Hospital: author of "Food: its Varieties, etc." (1870). Letmathe (let'mä-te). A town in the province of Westphalia, Pru ia, east of Elberfeld-Barmen. Leto (lē'to). [Gr. Λητώ.] In Greek mythology, the daughter of the Titan Cœus and Phœbe, and mother by Zeus of Apollo and Artemis. According to the earlier form of the myth, she was the wife of Zeus before he married Hera; according to the later form, his mistre after his marriage with Hera. Her name became Latona in Roman mythology. He probably died or Leto (lā'tō), Pomponio. The nom de plume of the Marchese Vitelleschi. Letton (let'on), John. A printer, living in the second half of the 15th century, who was "the first printer who set up a printing-pre in the city of London. ceased printing about 1483" ( Dict . Nat . Biog ). Lettres Édifiantes: in full "Lettres Édifiantes et Curie uses, écrites des mi ions étrangères par quelques mi ion a ires de la compagnie de Jésus." A collection of letters from Jesuit mis Lettres Édifiantes sionaries, principally in America and Asia, first published at Paris, in 34 vols. 12mo, 1702-76. There are many other editions, that of 1780-83 in 26 vols. being generally preferred; later ones have various additions; and there is a second collection entitled "Nouvelles Lettres Édifiantes des mi ions de la Chine et des Indes Orient a les" (8 vols. 1818-23). Spanish and Italian editions have been published, and an abridged one in English. Many of these letters are of great historical and eth no graphical interest. Letts (lets). A branch of the Lithuanian or Lettic race, inhabiting chiefly the Ru ian provinces of Courland, Livonia, and Vitebsk. The Letts call themselves Latvis. Letzten Dinge, Die. [G., 'The Last Things.'] An oratorio by Spohr, produced at Ca el on Good Friday, 1826. It is known in English as "The Last Judgment." Leucadia, or Leucas. See Santa Maura . Leuch ten berg (loich'ten-berg). Formerly, a small princely landgraviate in the Upper Palatinate. It came into the po e ion of the Bavarian dynasty in the middle of the 17th century. Eugène de Beauhar nais was made duke of Leuch ten berg in 1817. Leucippe and Cleitophon (lū-sip'ē and klī'tofon). A Greek romance by Achilles Tatius, written in the 5th century. The story [by Achilles Tatius) is entitled "the adventures of Leucippe and Cleitophon," in eight books. Its chief merit consists in the descriptions in which it abounds; the incidents are complicated and tedious, and the character of the hero is below contempt. The probability of the narrative is quite overthrown by the awkward machinery. The hero, Cleitophon, tells his own story, from the third chapter of the first book down to the end of the ro mance, without any interruption from the unknown lis tener, who happens with him, at a picture of the rape of Europa. The dram at is personæ are Hippias of Tyre, who has two children by different mothers, Cleitophon and Call i gone; So stratus, the brother of Hippias, his wife Panthia, and his daughter Leucippe; Cleinias, the cousin of Cleitophon; a cunning slave, Satyrus; Menelaus, an Egyptian, whose acquaintance Cleitophon makes when. he runs away with Leucippe from Berytus to Alexandria; certain pirates and soldiers; Melitte, a supposed widow of Ephesus, but residing at Alexandria, who falls in love with Cleitophon, and induces him to marry her, in the belief that Leucippe is dead; Thersander, the husband of Melitte, who had escaped from shipwreck without her knowledge; and Sosthenes, the slave of Thersander. All these parties make their entries on the stage with melodramatic exactne ; everybody appears at the critical at the end of the piece. time; and, in spite of all difficulties, the lovers are united K. O. Müller , Hist. of the Lit. of Anc. Greece, III. 356. [( Donald son .) historical painter of the Dü eldorf school. Among his works are "Washington Cro ing the Delaware," "Washington at Mon mouth," "Landing of the Norsemen," "Cromwell and his Daughter," etc. Leuwenhoek. See Leeuwenhoek . Levadia. See Livadia . Levaillant (lė-vä-yon'), François. Born at Paramaribo, Dutch Guiana, 1753: died at Sézanne, France, Nov. 22, 1824. A French ornithologist, and traveler in southern Africa 17811785. He published accounts of his travels (1790 and 1796). Levambert (lė-von-bar'), Louis. Born at Paris, 1614: died 1670. A French sculptor. Much of his work is in the park of Versailles. Lévan (lā-von'), Louis. Born in 1612: died in 1668. A noted French architect. His first work, apparently, was in 1643 at the Château de Vaux-le-Vicompte. He was afterward charged with the transformation of the Château de Vincennes. He succeeded Lemercier as arch i tect of the Louvre and Tuileries, and completed the eastern and northern sides, except the portico of Perrault. At the Tuileries Louis XIV. ordered Lévan to remodel the palace, which he did at the expense of De l'Orme's work, leaving intact only the order of the Rez de Chau ée. He also built the Pavillon de Marsan and the old Pavillon de Flore. In 1661 he built the Palais des Quatres Nations, now the Institut. He was also the first architect of Saint Sulpice, and built the Chapel de la Salpêtrière, Saint-Louis en l'ile, etc. He added two pavilions and an orangerie to the old Château de Versailles built by Louis XIIL. Levana (le-vā'nä). In Roman mythology, a godde , the protectre of children. Levana. An educational treatise by Richter, published in 1807. Levanna (le-vän nä). A peak of the Graian Alps, 11,940 feet. on the frontier of France and Italy. Height, Levant (le-vant'), The. [D. levant, G. Levante , Dan. Sw. levant , F. levant , Sp. Pg. It. levante , from ML. lev an (t-)s, the sunrise, the east, the orient; prop. adj., rising: applied to the sun.] The region, east of Italy, lying on and near the Mediterranean, sometimes reckoned as extending east to the Euphrates and as taking in the Nile valley, thus including Greece and Egypt; more specifically, the coast region and islands of Asia Minor and Syria: a name originally given by the Italians. Levant in a, Valle. See Leventina . Levanto (le-vän'tō). A small town in northern Italy, on the Riviera 12 miles northwest of Spezia.