“BOOKMAN” EDITOR DEAD

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 994, 10 June 1930, Page 9

“BOOKMAN” EDITOR DEAD

ST. JOHN ADCOCK—NOTED ESSAYIST AND POET MEMORIES OF “GRUB STREET” Reed. 11.5 a.m. LONDON, Monday. The death is announced of Mr. Arthur St. John Adcock, the novelist, sged 66 years. Arthur St. John Adcock was widely known as an essayist and journalist, and particularly as editor of the “Bookman.” Thirty-seven years ago he abandoned law for literature, and since that time he has contributed numerous short stories, serials, essays and verse to a wide range of periodical journals in various parts of the world. He was a son of William Adcock, and in 1887 he married Miss Marion Taylor, daughter of Charles LI. Taylor, of Cheshire. Among the publications of the late Mr. Adcock were some very wellknown studies of literary figures and some valuable contributions to modern verse. “The Gods of Modern Grub Street,” “The Glory That Was Grub Street,” and other “Grub Street” essays were among his finest works, while his “The Booklover’s London,” “Famous Houses and Literary Shrines of London,” and “London From the Top of a Bus,” were acclaimed as delightful studies of the great capital. “The Bookman Treasury of Living Poets,” published in 1925. was a valued volume, and his collected works were popularly read.