branch of education in schools." He was involved in a series of books on industrial arts and crafts, including Pyrography or burnt-wood etching (1876), co-authored with Thomas Bolas (revised by Frank H Ball and G J Fowler in 1900). He was, more significantly, the founder and first director of the Public School of Industrial Art in Philadelphia (not to be confused with the contemporaneous Pennsylvania Museum and School of Industrial Art). This originated as a school to teach crafts to disadvantaged children and became widely known when it was praised by Oscar Wilde, who predicted his friend would be "recognised and honoured as one of the great pioneers and leaders of the art of the future." The Home Arts and Industries Association was founded in imitation of this initiative. Translations Leland translated the collective works of the German Romanticist Heinrich Heine, and poems by Joseph Victor von Scheffel into English. He translated Eichendorff's novella Aus dem Leben eines Taugenichts to English as Memoirs of a Good-for-Nothing, published in New York in 1866 by Leypohlt & Holt. Legacy His biography was written by his niece Elizabeth Robins Pennell, an American who also settled in London and made her living in part by writing about travels in Europe. Leland had encouraged her as a young woman to consider writing as a career, which she did with some success. Select bibliography 1855: Meister Karl’s Sketch-book1864: Legends of Birds1871: Hans Breitmann’s Ballads1872: Pidgin-English Sing-Song1872: The Music-Lesson of Confucius, and Other Poems1873: The English Gipsies1875: Fusang or the Discovery of America by Chinese Buddhist Priests in the Fifth Century1879: Johnnykin and the Goblins1882: The Gypsies1884: Algonquin Legends1891: Gypsy Sorcery and Fortune Telling1892: The Hundred Riddles of the Fairy Bellaria1892: Etruscan Roman Remains in Popular Tradition1892: Leather Work, A Practical Manual for Learners 1895: Songs of the Sea and Lays of the Land1896: Legends of Florence Collected from the People (2 vols.) 1896: A Manual of Mending and Repairing with Diagrams1897: A dictionary of slang, jargon & cant embracing English, American, and Anglo-Indian slang, pidgin English, gypsies' jargon and other irregular phraseology1899: Unpublished Legends of Virgil1899: Aradia, or the Gospel of the Witches1899: Have You a Strong Will?1901: Legends of Virgil1901: Life and Adventures of James P. Beckwourth, Mountainner, Scout, Pioneer, and Chief of the Crow Nation of Indians Edited by. 1902: Flaxius, or Leaves from the Life of an Immortal1904: The Alternate Sex: or, The