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Rh below the belt may occur on one side or the other. Those who at this distance of time can recall any disagreeable event connected with him who has left us must, however, be extremely few. Animosity could hardly continue with a man so fundamentally good-natured as Shepherd, and it is a fact that the last person against whom Mr. Shepherd brought an action, and lost it, subscribed to pay the plaintiff's costs,

His was a unique personality, and although he dropped out of London life some years ago, amusing stories are yet told of his eccentric appearance, of his manners and customs. As a literary workman he was conscientious to an extraordinary degree, and an hour's walk in order to verify a quotation or to cross the ts and dot the is on a proof-sheet was to him positive enjoyment. He succumbed to cancer at the age of fifty-three. R.