Leopold David Lewis

In 1871, he translated Erckmann-Chatrian's Le Juif Polonais, giving it the name The Bells, under which name it was produced by Henry Irving at the Lyceum Theatre, London, 25 November 1871 and repeatedly thereafter.

[5] Original plays from the pen of Lewis are: The Wandering Jew (Adelphi Theatre, 14 April 1873); Give a Dog a Bad Name (ib.

From February to December 1868 he and Alfred Thompson conducted a monthly review, The Mask, which failed.

In addition to the plays mentioned Lewis wrote a number of tales under the title A Peal of Merry Bells (1880).

[5] Lewis was found late one night seriously ill in Gray's Inn Road and was taken to the Royal Free Hospital where he died on 23 February 1890.