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Excerpt from Rabelais: Readings Selected William Francis Smith, the elder son of the Rev. Hugh William Smith of St John's College, was born on October 20th, 1842, at Brackley in Northamptonshire. Educated at Shrewsbury, he had nearly attained the age of twenty when he came into residence in October, 1862, as the holder of one of the best of the "Open Exhibitions" awarded for Classics. As an Old Salopian, he long retained a vivid memory of that great head-master, Dr Kennedy, of whom he had many a happy story to tell in the company of his College friends. Outside the walls of St John's, his closest friend was John Maxwell Image of Trinity, who was bracketed second in the Classical Tripos of 1865. W. F. Smith himself won the second place in the following year, and both were elected Fellows in the same year as myself - 1867. From 1870 to 1892 he was one of my most loyal colleagues as a classical lecturer, the favourite subjects of his public lectures being Sophocles and Plato, and Aristophanes and Plautus. On the coming in of the New Statutes, in 1882, he married a devoted and accomplished wife, who shared his wide interest in modern languages. He applied the highly-trained aptitude of a classical scholar to the acquisition of an accurate knowledge of early French literature. Among his favourite authors was Montaigne, but he concentrated all his published work on Rabelais. He was in the best sense of the term a homo unius libri. His "new translation" with notes, and with letters and documents illustrating the author's life, was published by subscription in two handsome volumes in 1893. Two selected portions of the translation were privately printed in small quarto with vellum covers, "the first edition of book iv" in 1899, and "Rabelais on Civil and Canon Law" in 1901. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works
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