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solid qualities, and a brilliancy superadded, that was the admiration and envy of all his contempo raries. As a boy at Eton, and afterwards at Kings College, Cambridge, he showed that nature had endowed him with many of the unattainable gifts and graces of intellect and expression. He had the honor of preparing H. R. H. the late Duke of Clarence for the University. Although a member of the bar. he never took kindly to the drudgery of his profession, and preferred to find an outlet for his talents and energy in journalism and general literature. He lately resided at Cam bridge, where his death occurred in the thirty-third year of his age. To a larger circle than his friends in London and Cambridge he became lately known by the publication of two volumes of verse, entitled "Lapsus Calami '' and " Quo Musa tendis." Like many whose mental attainments leave those of

their fellows far behind, Mr. Stephen was subject to moods of great depression. Mr. Oscar Brown ing, who was his master at Eton and afterwards his co-fellow at Kings College, contributed an interest ing sketch of his quondam pupil and friend to the pages of the " Bookman" for March. He says: "He wrote to me on his birthday in February, 189 1, saying that he was thirty-two on that day, and that nothing had been done for immortality. How little he foresaw that in a year he would be dead, and that his career would be noticed in glowing terms by nearly every important newspaper in England!" To-day, the 5th of March, we are in the throes of the second County Council election for London. Among the candidates are a large number of '' past Templars."