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the life-work with which his name will be forever associated. 
Yet while Mr. Shaw was so thoroughly American in the 
true sense of the word, he was as thoroughly English in all 
those hereditary traits, ideas, and habits which are born in 
us and not made by us, and which inevitably take their 
shape and color from the soil and stock from which we 
spring. ‘‘Blood is thicker than water,’’ and the English 
blood transmitted by a long line of unmixed English an- 
cestry was always strong in him. He did not love England 
the less because he loved America more, and his attach- 
ment for the land of his birth remained deep and ardent— 
though undemonstrative—to the last. He liked to have 
about him things which reminded him of his old home. 
Much of the furniture in both his town and country house 
was of English manufacture of fifty years ago; most of 
the pictures and prints upon the walls were of English sub- 
jects, and he preferred to read his favorite authors in the 
English editions through which he first knew them. He 
was systematic in everything, as Englishmen of his gener- 
ation were much more than they are now. Systematic in 
personal habits: eating, drinking, sleeping, exercise and 
recreation; to which regularity, guided always by pru- 
dence, his remarkable health to advanced age was largely 
due. Systematic above all in his business. Promptness 
and punctuality were cardinal virtues with him. He put 
off nothing until tomorrow that could as well be done to- 
day. Whatever he did himself was well done, and what 
he could not do himself he placed in competent hands, and 
whenever practicable gave it careful personal supervision. 
His penmanship was clear and remarkably handsome, and 
the books which contain the records of his public and pri- 
vate business would do honor to the best professional 
accountant. He made out the pay-rolls of both the Gar- 
den and Park up to the month of his death, and then 
allowed another to do it only because utterly unable him- 
self to hold a pen. He managed business matters on strictly 
business principles, and in so doing knew no difference 
between a friend and a stranger. He would take no ad- 
vantage, however legal, of either; but he expected both the 
friend and the stranger to be as faithful as he himself was 
