Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 166, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 July 1912 — Scholarly, Industrious Writer. [ARTICLE]

Scholarly, Industrious Writer.

The death ia England of Pro! Alfred John Church has terminated a career of extraordinary physical vigor and literary activity. Professor Church was best known to scholars as the translator with W. J. Brodribb of Tacitus’ and Pliny’s letters. But he had a much larger audience among English bo>s and giris by his popular versions from Homer, Virgil, Herodotus and Livy. Altogether he was the author of some seventy books, which, however, must have represented a comparatively small part of his literary labors, if The Nation’s statement is true that he was the author of nearly 40,000 book reviews. Most of his critical work yas done for The Bpeetator, to which he was introduced by B. H. Hutton. He was for a time curate to F. D. Mguriee. He was all his life a cricketer. »hd as a fisherman had a British record of catching gffif. New York <ng Po * t •u Win*. mhM VJ* *- talk u oirus wum tßugoi 10 ms, [ "Pigeon English, of oowse.” ’