5:< Washington Street, Boston 8, Mass. 



(Entered at the Post Offlce, Boston, Mass., 

 as Second Class MaU Matter) 



THUBSDAY, JANUARY 3, 1929 



MAXWET-T At the Presbytarlan Hospital, New 



York tltv. Jan. 2, Anna Caroline Maxwell, 

 dauBhler of tho late Rev. John Kglinton and 

 l>i:intha Caroline Maxwell. Notice of funerat 

 later. 



William Henry Van dei- SmI.saen, profes- 

 sor of tlie University of Toronto, is dead in 

 Toronto, afjed <>ighty-flvo ye.-»r.s. lie w.TJ 

 a membPi- of the iiniv"rsUy senate !ind 

 r,-.,f,.^:sor .-nieritus „t (I.-no.'in in ITniver- 

 ; ..iiv < nlle^T. He wLis the author of the 

 Onliirio High .School German Grammar 

 and edited "Sliorter Poems of Goethe and 

 Schiller," as well a.s several other Ger- 

 man works. Since his retirement fron\ 

 the university staff in 1913 he has been 

 engaged in translating and editing Ger- 

 man literature. What Is regarded as 

 Profes!?or Van der Smissen's greatest 

 work is the tran.slation, retaining tho 

 original meter, of Goethe's "Faust" 

 from German to English, which he oom- 

 pleteii following his retirement. 



