Excerpt from Lean's Collectanea, Vol. 1: Collections by Vincent Stuckey Lean of Proverbs (English and Foreign), Folk Lore, and Superstitions, Also Compilations Towards Dictionaries of Proverbial Phrases and Words, Old and Disused In 1853 - 5 Spain and Portugal deeply interested him, also Argentina. In 1856 he visited Egypt and Syria, returning by Turkey and Greece. America, a country with which he had great sympathy, followed, with Cuba in 1857; and in 1858 Algeria struck him with the difference in its beauty to the flat shores of the Nile, the part of Africa with which he had been previously acquainted. He was a constant contributor to Notes and Queries, being especially interested in verifying quotations, often quoting the saying of Lord Chancellor Campbell: Each man has his hobby, and mine is not to suffer a quotation to slip without identification. It is fortunate that I am not a despotic monarch, or I would certainly make it felony, without benefit of clergy, to quote a passage without giving a plain reference. Being interested in word derivation, he occasionally sent contributions to Dr. Murray's great work, now in progress. Though so saving and frugal in his habits, he was always ready to help a cause that appealed to him, and many were the kindnesses he did unknown except to the recipients. By judicious investments he was able year by year to increase his capital and income, so as to be enabled to make the noble bequests hereinafter mentioned. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.