WOLFE, HUMBERT gg ( ,1__5-1940), C.B. (1925), poet and writer, was born in Milan on Jan. 5, 1885, and educated at Brad ford Grammar School and Wadham College, Oxford. He entered the civil service in 1908, and in 1918 was appointed principal assistant secretary to the ministry of labour. He was also substi tute member on the governing body of the International Labour Office. His first publications were London Sonnets and Shylock reasons with Mr. Chesterton (both published in 192o) ; these were followed by Circular Saws, a volume of tales, in 1923.
In 1924 appeared Kensington Gardens and in 1925 The Un known Goddess, which contain poems, delicate, original and moving; Lampoons (1925) and News of the Devil (1926) prove his powers as a writer of satire. His output of verse thereafter was
plentiful and regular: after Humoresque in 1926 came Others Abide (translations from the Greek Anthology), Requiem and Cursory Rhymes (1927), and The Silver Cat and This Blind Rose (1928) ; in these his talent is thought by some to have lost freshness. In 193o he published The Uncelestial City, a long satire in verse, and eight years later a play in free verse, The Silent Knight, was produced in London. Dialogues and Monologues (1928) was a volume of literary criticism. Wolfe died Jan. 5,194o.