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The death also occurred on December 8th of Henry Budding, famous all over the world 

 as a scientific breeder of long- wool sheep and shorthorn cattle (see E. B. xxiv, Sigd). 



In Dr. Shadworth Holloway Hodgson (b. 1832; d. June I3th), there, passed away an 

 accomplished scholar and metaphysician. Educated at Rugby and Corpus Christi College, 

 Oxfora, he devoted himself from 1858 onwards entirely to the study of philosophy, and 

 acquired a remarkable knowledge of the whole field of philosophical literature, ancient and 

 modern. He helped to found the Aristotelian Society of London in 1880, and was its first 

 president. His published works include Time and Space (1870), The Philosophy of Re- 

 flection (1878) and a complete exposition of his philosophy (see E. B. xviii, 25id) in The 

 Metaphysic of Experience (1898). 



English classical scholarship was notably poorer by the death of Arthur Woollgar Verfall 

 (b. 1851; d. June l8th). Educated at Wellington, and at Trinity College, Cambridge, he 

 graduated as second classic in 1873 and became a fellow and tutor of his college. He pub- 

 tished editions of many classical plays, especially the Medea, Agamemnon and Choephoroe. 

 In 1895 appeared Euripides the Rationalist, followed in 1905 and 1910 by editions of most 

 of Euripides' plays. He was an original critic with views of his own, often expounded in the 

 Classical Review and other journals. In February 1911 he was appointed to fill the new 

 King Edward VII professorship of Literature at Cambridge, which had been endowed by 

 Sir Harold Harmsworth. 



Cambridge University lost also two heads of colleges: the Master of Caius, Dr. Ernest 

 Stewart Roberts (b. 1847; d. June i6th); and the Master of Jesus, Henry Arthur Morgan 

 (b. 1830; d. September 3rd). 



Oxford University lost an able philologist in Dr. Henry Sweet (b. 1845; d. April 3Oth). 

 He was a recognised authority on the subject of phonetics (see E. B. xxi, 460-61; ix, 597c), 

 a Readership in Phonetics having been specially created for him in 1901 by the University. 

 His other published works include an Anglo-Saxon Reader, a Student's Dictionary of Anglo- 

 Saxon, an English Grammar, The History of Language, and many editions of Old and Middle 

 English Texts. 



A widely known anthropologist passed away in Augustus Henry Keane (b. 1835; d. Feb- 

 ruary 3rd). A native of Cork, he was educated at Dublin and in Rome for the Roman 

 Catholic priesthood, but he declined to enter the church, and devoted himself to geographical 

 and ethnological research (see E. B. i, 442c; ix, goob; xxii, &78c). He registered and 

 classified almost every known language, and from these data worked out a system of ethnol- 

 ogy. He edited Stanford's Compendium of Geography, and, besides manv papers in the 

 journals of learned societies and in encyclopaedias, published Man, Past and Present (rSgg), 

 Ethnology (1896 and later* editions), The Gold of Ophir (1901), etc. He was professor of 

 Hindustani at University College, London, till 1885. 



The literary world has lost also the following: 



James Beresford Atlay, barrister and journalist, author of Lives of the Victorian Chan- 

 cellors and other works; b. 1860; d. November 22nd. 



Robert Barr, the novelist; b. 1850; d. October 2ist. A native of Glasgow, he was taken 

 to Canada when four years old, and educated at the Normal School, Toronto. He was 

 headmaster of the public school of Windsor, Ont., until 1876, when he joined the editorial 

 staff of the Detroit Free Press. He had an adventurous career as a journalist for five years, 

 and in 1881 came to England. In 1892 he started the Idler together with Mr. Jerome K. 

 Jerome. He published a number of novels and short stories, the best known being The 

 Mutable Many (1897) and Countess Tekla (1899). 



Capt. Frank Brinkley, the well-known authority on Japan; b. 1841; d. at Tokyo, October 

 28th. Having entered the British army, he went to Japan in 1867 in command of a battery 

 of artillery. In 1871 he became Principal Instructor at the Marine College, Tokyo, under the 

 Japanese government, and henceforth devoted himself to things Japanese. He left the army, 

 married a Japanese lady, and in 1881 founded the Japan Mail, of which he was proprietor and 

 editor till his death. He was also correspondent for the London Times in Japan. He published 

 Japan (1901), Japan and China (1903), as well as a Japanese-English Dictionary, and was 

 the author of the article "Japan" in the E. B. He held a unique position among foreign 

 residents in Japan, alike as a profound student of its history and art, and as a powerful 

 factor in international politics. 



The Rev. Alfred John Church, a prolific author; b. 1829; d. April 27th. Educated at 

 Lincoln College, Oxford, he took holy orders, and was assistant master at Merchant Taylors' 

 School for many years; he was professor of Latin at University College, London, from 

 1880-88. In partnership with the late W. J. Brodribb he translated Tacitus and edited 

 Pliny's Letters, but he is best known by his English re-telling of classical tales and legends 

 for young people (Stories from Virgil, Stories from Homer, etc.). He wrote much Latin 

 and English verse, and in 1908 published his Memories of Men and Books. 



George Knottesford Fortescue, Keeper of the Printed Books at the British Museum; 

 b. 1847; d. October 26th. Appointed an assistant in the British Museum Library in 1870, 

 he became Superintendent of the Reading Room in 1884, and in 1886 began a valuable 

 series of subject indexes to the modern works in the library, the last of which appeared in 1911. 



