WALTER LEAF
\wˈɒltə lˈiːf], \wˈɒltə lˈiːf], \w_ˈɒ_l_t_ə l_ˈiː_f]\
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An English banker, scholar, and translator; born in 1852. After a brilliant career at Cambridge University, where he was Senior Classic, Chancellor's Medalist, and Fellow of Trinity, he entered mercantile life in 1877, retiring in 1892. In addition to his duties as vice-president of the Chamber of Commerce and director of charitable and educational organizations, he is editor of the Journal of Hellenic Studies, and has published: "The Story of Achilles" (1880), with J. H. Pratt; "The Iliad of Homer Translated into English Prose" (1882), with A. Lang and E. Myers; "The Iliad" (1886-88); "Companion to the Iliad" (1892); "A Modern Priestess of Isis" (1894), from the Russian; "Versions from Hafiz".
By Charles Dudley Warner
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