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LEITMOTIV. (a) ig: g: rg: 3: 113 (EX. 3) LE JEUNE. (c) (e) if^ i^^ -= 1 — 1 .r=. —IS 1 R .-.. ~~i * 1 -•- •• ==^ -— = r- >• 1 1 -i^ 1 ^Si._.,?LJi?_^ followed the development of the various motives from the beginning of Rheingold. Thus it is seen how the principle of the leitmotiv gives organic unity not only to a single drama, but even to a whole cycle of dramas. For a full exposition of this subject, consult : Finck, Warjiier and Bis M'orhs (Xew York, 1898) ; and Wagner, "Ueber die Anwendung der Musik auf das Drama," in Gessnmelte Hchriften und Dichtungen (10 vols., Leipzig. 1897). LEITNER, lit'ner, Gou'ijeb WiLHELsr (1830- 99). A German Orientalist, bom at Pesth, Hun- gary. His father, a German physician, becoming involved in the Revolution of 1840. went to Turkey, where Gottlieb, who had been well in- structed in the classics, learned Turkish. Ar- abic, and modern Greek. He also acquired English, French, and Italian at the British Col- lege in Malta, and was interpreter to the English commissariat during the Crimean War. After the war he went to London, was natural- ized as a British subject, and accepted an ap- ])ointment as professor of Oriental languages and Mohammedan law in King's College. In 1804 he was appointed director of a college at Lahore, in the Punjab. He formed many so- cieties, schools, public libraries, and colleges in India, and organized the Punjab University upon a solid basis. He also found time to engage in the exploration of Tibet and the other countries to the north of the Himalayas, and aroused inter- est in Dardistan and its languages. He extended his researches to the dialects of Kabul. Kash- mir, and Badakhshan. and sent to the A"ienna Kxposition an extensive collection of Central .siatic antiquities. His principal work, besides numerous contributions to the proceedings of learned societies in England and upon the Con- tinent, was The Languages and Races of Dar- distan (1877). LEITRIM, le'trlni. A county in the Province of Connauglit. Ireland, which to the north has a small coast-line, on the Bay of Donegal (Map: Ireland, C 2). Area, 619 square miles, half of which is pasture land. Crops of potatoes, oats, and hay are raised, and some coal is mined. Capital, Carriek-on-Shannon. Population, in 1841. 1.3.5. .300: in 1001. 09.200. LEIXNER-GRtJNBERG, llks'ner-grnn'berG, Otto vox (1847 — ). A German author. He was born at Saar, Moravia ; studied at Gratz and Munich; and from 1874-70 was editorially con- nected with the Gegenicart. at Berlin, and became well known as a critic of literature and art. His first considerable work was an lUustrietc Litter- aturgeschichte (1879-82). His further publica- tions include: Gedichte (1877): Dammerungen (1880) : So:iole Briefe aus Berlin (1891) : and Sprilclic (Ills drm Leien fiir d<is Leben (1895). LEJEAN, le-zhax', GriLi.ArME (1828-71). A French explorer and geographer, born at Ploue- gat Guerand, Finist&re. He devoted himself to the study of Breton history, and in 1850 pub- lished La Brcfagne, son histoire ct ses historiens. He then took up the study of geography; traveled extensively in the Balkans (1857-58" 1867-70), and in Egypt and Xorthem Africa (1800) : was consul in Abyssinia (1802-03) until driven out by King Theodore ; then traveled in Western Asia. He wrote: Ethnographie der etiropaisclien Tiirkei (in Petermann's llitteilungen, 1861); Voyage aiix deux Xils (1865-68) ; Theodore II., le nouvel empire d'Ahi/ssinie et les intcrcts francais (1865); and Voi/age en Abgssinie (1873). He published valuable maps of European Turkey and of the Xile. Consult Cortambert, Lejean et scs voyages (Paris, 1872). LE JETTNE, Ic zhen'. Fait. (1592-1664). A French .Jesuit missionary, who. in 1632, went to Canada. In the same year he wrote a Bricre yrhifion du voyage dc la Xourelle France (16.32), the first of the collection known as the Relations dcs Jesuites en la Xouvelle France. He became superior of the .Jesuit house in Quebec, and edited every year from 1633 till 1639 a Relation de ce qui s'est passe en la youvelle France (Paris, 1634-40). On his return to France in 1640 he was made procurateur of foreign missions.