FREE BOOKS

Author's List




PREV.   NEXT  
|<   1   2   3   4   5   6   7   8   9   10   11   12   13   14   15   16   17   18   19   20   21   22   23   24   25  
26   27   28   29   30   31   32   33   34   35   36   37   38   39   40   41   42   43   44   45   46   47   48   49   50   >>   >|  
The Project Gutenberg eBook, The Gypsies, by Charles G. Leland This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org Title: The Gypsies Author: Charles G. Leland Release Date: October 10, 2007 [eBook #22939] Language: English Character set encoding: ISO-646-US (US-ASCII) ***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE GYPSIES*** Transcribed from the 1882 Houghton, Mifflin and Company edition by David Price, ccx074@pglaf.org THE GYPSIES BY CHARLES G. LELAND AUTHOR OF "THE ENGLISH GYPSIES AND THEIR LANGUAGE," "ANGLO-ROMANY BALLADS," "HANS BREITMANN'S BALLADS," ETC. BOSTON AND NEW YORK HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN AND COMPANY The Riverside Press, Cambridge Copyright, 1882, BY CHARLES G. LELAND. _All rights reserved_. PREFACE. The reader will find in this book sketches of experiences among gypsies of different nations by one who speaks their language and is conversant with their ways. These embrace descriptions of the justly famed musical gypsies of St. Petersburg and Moscow, by whom the writer was received literally as a brother; of the Austrian gypsies, especially those composing the first Romany orchestra of that country, selected by Liszt, and who played for their friend as they declared they had never played before for any man; and also of the English, Welsh, Oriental, and American brethren of the dark blood and the tents. I believe that the account of interviews with American gypsies will possess at least the charm of novelty, but little having as yet been written on this extensive and very interesting branch of our nomadic population. To these I have added a characteristic letter in the gypsy language, with translation by a lady, legendary stories, poems, and finally the substance of two papers, one of which I read before the British Philological Society, and the other before the Oriental Congress at Florence, in 1878. Those who study ethnology will be interested to learn from these papers, subsequently combined in an article in
PREV.   NEXT  
|<   1   2   3   4   5   6   7   8   9   10   11   12   13   14   15   16   17   18   19   20   21   22   23   24   25  
26   27   28   29   30   31   32   33   34   35   36   37   38   39   40   41   42   43   44   45   46   47   48   49   50   >>   >|  



Top keywords:
gypsies
 

GYPSIES

 

BALLADS

 

American

 

Oriental

 
LELAND
 
CHARLES
 

Gypsies

 

language

 

Gutenberg


Project

 
Charles
 

played

 

Leland

 

English

 

papers

 

declared

 

Congress

 

Florence

 

article


friend
 

brethren

 

Philological

 
Society
 
selected
 
composing
 
interested
 

brother

 

Austrian

 

ethnology


Romany

 
literally
 

received

 

country

 

subsequently

 
orchestra
 

account

 

combined

 

substance

 
population

nomadic

 

branch

 

writer

 
finally
 

translation

 

legendary

 

characteristic

 

letter

 

interesting

 
novelty