Leonard Arthur Magnus,

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(December 12, 1879 – September 11, 1924) was a British scholar and translator, with interests in Russian literature, as well as the author of a novel of

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Biography

Leonard A. Magnus was son of Sir

Philip Magnus Sir Philip Magnus, 1st Baronet (7 October 1842 – 29 August 1933) was an England, English educational reformer, rabbi, and politician, who represented the London University (UK Parliament constituency), London University constituency as a Li ...

, Bt. and Lady Magnus. He was the editor of ''Respublica'' for the Early English Text Society, a translator from Russian, and an author of his own works. In 1923–1924 he was traveling in the interior of Russia, facilitated by the Commissar of Education of Russia

Lunacharsky Anatoly Vasilyevich Lunacharsky (, born ''Anatoly Aleksandrovich Antonov''; – 26 December 1933) was a Russian Marxist revolutionary and the first Soviet People's Commissar (minister) of Education, as well as an active playwright, critic, es ...

, pursuing his studies in the folklore of Russia. He was "attacked by a malignant germ" and failed to get home, dying in Russia, in a hursing-home in Moscow.

Works

* ''A Japanese Utopia'' (1905) *: A Japanese protagonist finds a

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north of Japan. * ''A Concise Grammar of the Russian Language'' (1916) * ''Roumania's Cause & Ideals'' (1917) *''Pros and Cons of the Great War: A Record of Foreign Opinion, with a Register of Fact'' (1917) *: "a collection of brief extracts and quotations from various foreign writings and speeches, principally German; as references to sources are given the compilation can be made to serve some of the uses of a bibliography." * ''The Heroic Ballads of Russia'' (1921) *''

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Alexander Afanasyev Alexander Nikolayevich Afanasyev (; – ) was a Russian Slavist and ethnographer best known for publishing nearly 600 East Slavic and Russian fairy and folk tales, one of the largest collections of folklore in the world. This collection was ...

*:translation, with introduction *''The Tale of the Armament of Igor'' (1915) *:translation of ''

The Tale of Igor's Campaign ''The Tale of Igor's Campaign'' or ''The Tale of Ihor's Campaign'' () is an anonymous epic poem written in the Old East Slavic language. The title is occasionally translated as ''The Tale of the Campaign of Igor'', ''The Song of Igor's Campaign'' ...

'' from Russian, editing, with introduction, notes, and glossary archive.org * Three plays by Anatoly Lunacharsky
*:Translation with collaboration with K. Walter for ''Broadway Translations''

References

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