Author:Lewis Gaston Leary
served as the pastor in the village of Pelham Manor. He was an avid traveler and the author of many travel articles; ' a Presbyterian clergyman. He was born in 1877 at Elizabeth, N. J., and was graduated from Rutgers College, with the degree of B. Sc., in 1897, where he took first Scientific honor, Rhetorical honor, and prizes in history, debate, oratory, and metaphysics. In 1900 he received from New York University the degree of M. A. (English literature), and in 1905 the degree of Ph. D. (Arabic and Hebrew). Dr. Leary has traveled in Great Britain, France, Belgium, Holland, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Turkey, Greece, Egypt, Syria -- where he was for three years instructor in the American College in Beirut. He presented the first English play ever given in the Turkish empire, Roumania, Servia, and other countries, and speaks five modern languages. He is an authority on Semitic literature and Old Testament exegesis, and lectures on the latter topic at various summer schools. He has just completed one hundred encyclopedia articles on Oriental topics. In the last four years Dr. Leary has had twenty or thirty travel articles published in various magazines - Source:—Writers of the Day in The Writer: A Monthly Magazine For Literary Workers, Vol. XX, Jan. - Dec., 1908, pp. 76-77 (Boston, MA: The Writer Publishing Co. 1908).
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- A Postponed Proposal
- The Real Palestine of To-day
- Andorra, the hidden republic; its origin and institutions, and the record of a journey thither, 1912
- Syria, the Land of Lebanon, 1913
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