English literary research loses mich in the death, at a not greatly advanced age, of ' Professor Percy [Stafford "Allen. For nearly ten years he had been President of the College in which he had graduated after leaving Clifton. "He~ took up ithe study of the work and life of Erasmus, shortly after returning to [England from a four-years' engagement as Professor of History at the Government College at Lahore. With Dr. Mark. Pattison he contributed the article on Erasmus to the eleventh edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica in 911, "the selection being, of course, inspired by the fact that his great work, the Letters of Erasmus, was beginning to come out of the Oxford Univers ity Press. That masterpiece Jeight volumes was completed only fast year and it is pathetic to think that its author has died so soon afterwards. As the first man of letters to appear in Europe since the" fall of the Roman Empire [Erasmus is a fascinating subject of research. His the
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