320 LEO LESQUEREUX. 



7. " Connecticut," for American Commonwealth Series. Houghton, 

 Mifflin, & Co. 1887. 



8. " The American Constitution," and other articles, for the New 

 Princeton Review. July, 1888. 



9. "The United States," in 9th edition of Encyclopaedia Britannica. 

 1887. 



Besides the following unpublished works : — 



10. " The United States," taken from article in the Britannica. 



11. Shorter History of the United States for Schools. 



And in addition many articles, signed and unsigned, for the Cen- 

 tury Magazine, the Nation, and other publications. 



LEO LESQUEREUX. 



Leo Lesquereux was born, November 18th, 1806, in the village 

 of Fleurier, Neuchatel. His father, a manufacturer of watch-springs, 

 was descended from a Huguenot family which took refuge in Switzer- 

 land after the revocation of the Edict of Nantes. When a boy Les- 

 quereux was of an adventurous spirit, and on one excursion fell from 

 the edge of a high cliff, but almost miraculously escaped without per- 

 manent injury except a deafness which a few years later was inten- 

 sified so that during the greater part of his life he could converse only 

 with the greatest difficulty. He entered upon his academic studies in 

 1821, in a college of the town of Neuchatel, and graduated with dis- 

 tinction in 1827. The slender means of his family forced him to sup- 

 port himself, in part, while a student, and after graduating he went 

 to Eisenach, where he acted as tutor in a noble family. While at 

 Eisenach he became engaged to a daughter of General Von WolfFskel, 

 an attache of the court of the Duke of Saxe- Weimar, to whom he was 

 a short time afterwards married. In 1829 he returned to Switzerland, 

 and became Principal of the College of La Chaux-de-Fonds in the 

 Canton of Neuchatel. 



After his marriage, his deafness increased to such an extent as to 

 unfit him for the profession of teacher, and, medical skill proving of no 

 avail in his case, he was forced to gain a meagre living by engraving 

 watch-cases, — a pitiable condition for one of his intelligence and edu- 

 cation, who had only recently married a lady of noble birth. His health 

 soon began to suffer, when his father offered to give him a share in 

 his business, which, since it was on a small scale, did not improve his 

 financial conditiou verv much. He at this time began to devote his 



