The Gypsies

The Gypsies, by Charles G. Leland
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Title: The Gypsies Author: Charles G. Leland
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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.
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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 ...