HIS LIFE FOR HIS SON.
DROWNED IN THE. SEINE. By TelepraDb—Press Association—Cooyrißtal Paris, "May 23. Air. Alfred Nutt, the London publisher and writer on folk-lore, was driving his deaf and dumb son along ths banks of the Hirer Seine, when the horses bolted. The sou was thrown into the river, and Air. Nutt, although a strong current was running, at once dived in to his rescue. The father was drowned. Tho son's . life was saved. [Born in London in 185 C, the late Arr. Nutt served a business apprenticeship in Germany and France, and in 1878 took up his father's publishing business. He was founder (in ISSG) of the English Goethe Society, joint founder (1898) of the Irish Texts Society, and a member of tho Folk-Lore Socictv. He wrote: "The Legend of the Holy Grail" (with especial reference to the hypothesis of its Celtic origin), and "The Voyage of Bran," an old Irish saga. |
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Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 825, 25 May 1910, Page 7
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