DENING, Walter (SENDAI), Professor of English in 2nd High School, Sendai; Journalist; b. July 23, 1846; m. 1870 and 1891. Educ.: Taignton, Devonshire, and Church Missionary College, London. Ordained in 1869; priest in Mauritius, 1870; missionary, under Church Missionary Society at Andoverante, Madagascar, 1870-73; missionary under Church Missionary Society |at Hakodate, 1874; relinquished holy orders, Nov. 17. 1885, and joined Japanese Education Department; appointed Lecturer in Ethics at High Normal School; joined the Naval Department as teacher of English at Naval Academy in 1890; became Editor of "Japan Gazette," 1891; went to Australia in 1892; engaged in farming at Healesville, Victoria, for three years; returned to Japan in July, 1895, and took up present post. Decorations: 5th order of Rising Sun. Publications: " Life of Toyotomi Hideyoshi," 1888; "Japan in Days of Yore," 1888, (2nd edition, enlarged, 1905); " New Life of Toyotomi Hideyoshi," 1904; "High School Series of English Readers ";"Anglo-Japanese Readers"; "Short Japanese and Chinese Stories," and numerous contributions to periodicals. Address: Sendai, Japan.