Grand Mark Lodge.

Lodge , No . 422 , Sierra Leone , it was not possible to instal the W . M . on the day appointed by the bye-laws for that purpose , and Bro . Anastasio Ceffalo , the W . M ., at the conclusion of his year of office will not have served the full period of twelve months . Under the peculiar circumstances of the case , the Board recommend that Bro . Anastasio Ceffalo be , and is hereby confirmed in his rank as Past Master so soon as his successor shall have been regularly elected and installed .

The Book of Constitutions published in 1886 being oxhaused , the Board recommend a revision , the same to be laid before Grand Lodge at the Quarterly Communication in December next . W . Bro . Rev . C . H . Maiden P . M ., Editor of the " Indian

Masonic Review , " Madras , has appealed against sentence of suspension by the R . W . District Grand Master for Madras , and the case will be brought before Grand Lodge . The papers relating to the case can be seen on application at the Grand Secretary's Office .

W . Bro . Alexander Howell P . M . Sec . No . 2 has presented to the Library of Grand Lodge a copy of his book on the History of the Phcenix Lodges ( Craft and Mark ) , & c ., & c , and the thanks of the Board have been presented to him . * - The Board have to report with great regret the death of their

old and valued colleague , V . W . Bro . Alfred Williams , a member since 1879 ; also that the M . W . Grand Master has been pleased to appoint V . W . Bro . Richard Eve P . G . Overseer Deputy Prov . G . M . Hants and Isle of Wight , to fill the vacancy on the General Board for the unexpired portion of tho late Bro . Alfred Williams' term of office .

• FUND OF BENEVOLENCE . The Twenty-sixth Annual Festival was held at the Freemasons ' Tavern on the 11 th July , under tho presidency of the R . W . Bro . Rt . Hon . the Earl of Yarborough , Provincial Grand Master for Lincolnshire , and the sum of £ 1 , 894 was announced as having been collected .

Tho Board havo elected on the Educational Fund , without a poll- Richard Weldon Geo Gillmore ( Gibraltar ) . The Board have to report the death , in July last , of an Annuitant—Bro . Henry Miller ( Plymouth ) . The following cases have been relieved : —

A Brother of Lodge No . 74 ... £ 10 0 0 The Widow of a Brother of Lodge No . 125 £ 10 0 0 A Brother of Lodge No . 75 ... £ 10 0 0 A Brother of Lodge No . 311 ... £ 5 0 0 And the Board recommend to Grand Lodge—£ 20 to the Widow of a Brother of Lodge No . 354 . ( Signed ) , R . LOVELAND LOVELAND , President . FRANK RICHARDSON , Vice-President . C . FITZGERALD MATIER , G . Secretary .

3 . A Motion will be made that the Report be taken as read . 4 . A Motion will be made that the Report be received and entered on the Minutes . 5 . Recommendations arising out of the Report : — ( A ) That Bro . Anastasio Ceffalo he confirmed in his rank as Past Master .

( B ) That tho General Board shall have power to prepare a revision of the Book of Constitutions , ( o ) That the sum of £ 20 be voted to the Widow of a Brother of Lodge No . 354 .

6 . A Motion will bo proposed that the Report bo adopted . 7 . Appeal by W . Bro . Rev . C . H . Maiden against sentence of suspension by the R . W . District Grand Master for Madras . 8 . Presentation of Charity Jewels to tho Stewards of tho last Benevolent Fund Festival .

United Service Masonry.

UNITED SERVICE MASONRY .

U NITED Service , No . 24 , is the designation of the latest addition of the Craft Lodges of Masonry in British Columbia , ine dedication and installation of Officers took place on Wednesday , lath July , when Bro . McMicking and other Grand Officers duly installed thc Officers . '

After the ceremony had concluded , the Officers , Visitors and members were sumptuously entertained at a banquet . When the good things provided had been disposed of , a couple of very pleasant hours wore spent in proposing toasts , exchanging fraternal greetings and

, listening to the charming selections given by the string band of H . M . S . Royal Arthur , under the directorship of Mr . ¦ c . H . McKay , Bandmaster . ra „ i ^ , ° P » unique position , being the second in panada which draws its membership from thc Services . Its success has been phenomenal , there being now over fifty members , aj inougn it has teen only in oxiUcncc . sin ™ iR * rip ^ mW TU , n ex oi

rt . ° o « . » ^ erfeCt P ° sition the renowned English ritual , and ine motto of every member is emulation , or who can best assist and best agree . — " Naval and Military Record . " m 3 ahf \ \ G P Ieased to send forms for reporting meetings of Lodges , Ac . on application . fa

Anachronisms.

ANACHRONISMS .

IT is said of a celebrated artist that in his desire not to offend the tender susceptibilities of his patron , he once painted Adam in clothes to suit the fashion of the present century , thus not only creating an unnecessary historical blunder , but being guilty at the same time of a very ridiculous anachronism .

There aro some diverting chronological errors in an old mystery play ( performed about the year 1512 ) , called " Candlemas Day ; or the Killing of the Children of Israel . " Tho Hebrew soldiers awear by Mahomet ; but the son of Abdallah , and descendant of the house of Hashem was not born till six hundred years after the period which was represented by the players . Herod ' s messenger is named Watkin , and thc knights arc directed to walk about the stage while Mary and the Infant are conveyed into Egypt .

A pamphlet entitled "The Dramatic Execution of Agis , " published on the production of Home's tragedy of that name in 1758 , contains a severe attack on Garrick for disguising himself ( ft Grecian chief ) , in the dress of a modern Venetian gondolier , and ridicules his having introduced a popish procession made np of

white friars with some other moveables , like a bishop , des enfans de choeur , nuns , & c , into a play , the scene of which lies in ancient Sparta . In his great painting , " The Birth of the Virgin , " Albert Diiror introduced a tent-bedstead , a commodious cooking-range , and modern-shaped candles .

In an altar piece at Capua , representing the Annunciation , the Virgin Mary is seated in a rich arm-chair , with a cup and silver coffee-pot standing on a table beside her , and in Mortin Schoen ' s " Death of the Virgin , " we have houses such as were built in the

fifteenth century . Tintoret , in his picture of the manna-gathering in the desert , has armed tho Hebrews with guns . Another artist , in a picture ti the Crucifixion , represents a priest holding up before the good thief a crucifix !

In the reign of William and Mary , a prayer-book was published containing an illustration of our Lord ' s parable of the mote and beam . From the eye of one man a huge log of wood is protruding , and in that of the other is a very fine cascade , attempts at hyperbole of Baron Munchausen dimensions .

A writer in 1809 says that shortly after Easter in every year , the baptism of St . Vincent Ferrier was pourtrayed in the church of St . Stephen at Valencia by twenty statues or puppets as large as life , representing the priests , clerk , godmother , midwife , servants , arid

others . An amusing anachronism was displayed in this religious exhibition , for the women figures were fully dressed in the prevailing French style , with modern adornments of watch chains , & o , St . Vincent died in 1419 , a date long antecedent to the time of the invention of watches .

In a story by Alexandre Dumas , entitled " Pauline , " he allows two lovers to escape from France to England , and conceal them > selves in a cottage orne , " a charming little cot , with green blinds , a garden full of flowers , an exquisite lawn , & o „ in Piccadilly , London . " The locality would be ( according to Dr . Doran ) that occupied by the White Bear , and the period 18341 Just fancy Piccadilly being a " rus in erbe " at the beginning of the nineteenth century .

A writer in " Notes and Queries " points out an anachronism on page 222 of Thackeray's " English Humorists , " where a letter , in which a good old lady describes a certain period , must have been written at least three years before the circumstance took place , and I believe I am correct in attributing to Wilkie Collins the authorship of a story of a young runaway couple who proceed by train at a period long before the railway locomotive was in use .

In a letter to the "Nation , " of New York , Prof . Goldwin Smith somewhat testily wrote of Lord Beaconsfield thus : " His Lordship is certainly fond of displaying his accurate curidition . He once gave the world a theological dissertation , in which he placed the conversion of St . Paul a hundred years after Christ , and the crucifixion in the reign of Augustus . The latter deviation from the received chronology having been pointed out , he adroitly altered

Augustus Csesar into Tiberius Cffisar , giving us to understand that ho had meant Tiberius when he wrote Augustus . In his life of Lord George Bentinck he has also indulged in a Greek quotation , which , as a proof of classical learning , may rank with the Latin quotation of Lord Kenyon , who told a jury that if they would do their duty by finding a just verdict , they would be able to go to their homes saying , " aut Csesar aut nullus" ( the first place or none ) .

At the beginning of the present year a well known Freemason took unto himself a wife , and the notification of thc wedding appeared among the " Marriage " announcements of several of the daily papers on the morning ( and of course in advance ) of the ceremony . This was regarded at thc time as a unique illustration of the go-ahead characteristics of modern journalism , and excessive " forethought " on the part of the friends of tho couple .

"Book of Rarities , " by Bro . Edward Roberts , P . M . FBEEMASONKY has an intellectual side . It furnishes food for mind . It presents itself to the candidate on a philosophical as well as a moral basis . It enjoins upon Brethren that they shonld search for wisdom as for pure gold , and that they should study principles and truths belonging to the different departments of Masonic instruction . No man can become a true Mason without receiving

some quickening to his mind . The ceremony will suggest in many ways the use of his intellectual powers , and as a Mason ho will have some additional stimulus to acquaint himself with the arts and sciences , and to make progress in the way of acquiring knowledge . Freemasonry gives forth no uncertain word in calling its followers to mental activity—in urging them to be earnest seekers for light and truth .