Charles Godfrey Leland spoke Romany and was welcomed by Romani communities in many lands. He describes the famous musical gypsies of St. Petersburg and Moscow, the Austrian orchestra chosen by Liszt, and gypsy tents in England, Wales, the East and America, with stories of the delight that greeted a gypsy gentleman.
A lively Victorian account by a sympathetic outsider; its romantic generalisations about the Roma belong to 1882. Download the free EPUB.