“ A very modest, very retiring man (he twice refused an honorary degree in American universities, being ore than content with his membership of Peterhouse, and his honorary M.A., of Cambridge University) , with a hatred of all show and display, and a dash of Yorkshire gruffness which he found it useful sometimes to exaggerate as a defence for his own very warm heart, Waller could not prevent his many friends from loving him more than most men are loved. ”

“ English literature has lost a learned and scholarly editor and Cambridge University an able and devoted servant in Mr. Alfred Rayney Waller, Secretary to the Syndics of the University Press, who died at his home in Cambridge on Wednesday.
Born at York on August 2, 1867, Waller early showed a passion for books. By his own exertions, through thick and thorough thin, he acquired a knolwedge of English literature which few could equal and his knowledge of French literature was not to be despised. ”

“ To his London years belong, among books too numerous to mention, his edition of Florio's Montaigne and the spade-work on the now standard edition of Hazlitt in thirteen volumes, in which he collaborated with his fried the Arnold Glover. ”