Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, "Lefebvre, Tanneguy" to "Letronne, Jean Antoine"

part in it. He then returned to Philadelphia, and after being admitted

to the bar in 1851, devoted himself to contributing to periodicals, editing various magazines and writing books. At the opening of the Civil War he started at Boston the _Continental Magazine_, which advocated emancipation. In 1868 he became known as the humorous author of _Hans Breitmann's Party and Ballads...