OBITUARY.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVIII, Issue 230, 27 August 1938, Page 9

OBITUARY.

MR AYLMER MAUDE. (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, August 20. The dentil has occurred of Mr Aylmer Maude, the author. Mr Aylmer Maude was born in 1858, and educated at Christ’s Hospital. Prom 1877 to 1880 he was a _ tutor in Russia. Later he went into business and became diiector of a ca'Vet company in Moscow In 1897 he returned to Rngland, and the following year he aided in arranging the migration of the Doukhobors, who had suffered religious persecution in Russia, to Canada. In 1918 he went to Russia again as a lecturer for the Universities Committee of the Y.M.C.A. He became absorbed in Tolstoi (his interest in the Doukhobors may have been due to the fact that Tolstoi devoted the proceeds of his novel, “Resurrection,” to the aid of these people), and wrote a number of books on the great Russian novelist, be ; coming organising secretary of the Tolstoi Society, and also winning fame _ as Tolstoi’* foremost translator in English. He edited the Tolstoi translations in the World Classic Series, and the Centenary Edition, and wrote a life of the novelist.