GOLLANCZ, SIR ISRAEL (1863-193o), British scholar, was born in London July 13, 1863. He was educated at the City of London school and at University college, London and Christ's college, Cambridge. From 1892 to 1895 he was Quain student and lecturer in English at University college, London and in 1896 was appointed university lecturer in English at Cambridge, be coming in 1906 university professor of English language and lit erature at King's college, London. He became secretary of the British Academy on its foundation in 1903 and was knighted in 1919. He was general editor of the Temple Classics and King's Library series and of the Book of Homage to Shakespeare which appeared in 1916. He died June 23, 193o. His published works include Cynewul f's Christ (1892) ; an edition of C. Lamb's Speci mens of Elizabethan Dramatists (1893) ; Exeter Book of Anglo Saxon Poetry (1895) ; Hamlet in Iceland (1898) ; and The Caedmon Manuscript of Anglo-Saxon Biblical Poetry (1927).