Leonard Arthur Magnus

Leonard Arthur Magnus, LL.B. (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 utopian fiction.^[1][2]

Biography

Leonard A. Magnus was son of Sir Philip Magnus, 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.^[2]

In 1923–1924 he was traveling in the interior of Russia, facilitated by the Commissar of Education of Russia Lunacharsky, pursuing his studies in the folklore of Russia. He was "attacked by a malignant germ" and failed to get home, dying in Russia,^[2] in a hursing-home in Moscow.^[3]

Works

A Japanese Utopia book cover

• A Japanese Utopia (1905)

  A Japanese protagonist finds a utopian lost world north of Japan.^[1]

• A Concise Grammar of the Russian Language (1916) ^[4]
• Roumania's Cause & Ideals (1917)^[5]
• Pros and Cons of the Great War: A Record of Foreign Opinion, with a Register of Fact (1917)^[6]

  "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."^[7]

• The Heroic Ballads of Russia (1921) ^[8]
• Russian Folk-Tales by Alexander Afanasyev

  translation, with introduction

• The Tale of the Armament of Igor (1915)

  translation of The Tale of Igor's Campaign from Russian, editing, with introduction, notes, and glossary^[9]

• Three plays by Anatoly Lunacharsky

  Translation with collaboration with K. Walter for Broadway Translations^[2]