Reviews.

REVIEWS .

AU Books intended for Review should be addressed to the Editor of The Freemason ' s Chronicle , 67 Barbican , E . C . The Amateur's Flower Garden . A handy guide to tho formation and management of the flower garden , and the cultivation of garden ( lowers . By Shirley Hibberd . Illustrated with coloured plates and wood engravings . London : Groombridgo and Sons .

Also by the samo author and at tho same publishers—The Amateur's Kitchen Garden , Frame Ground and Forcing Pit . A handy gnido to the formation and management of the kitchon garden and the cultivation of useful vegetables and fruits .

The Amateurs Green House and Conservatory . A handy guide to tho construction and management of plant honses , and tho selection , cultivation and improvement of ornamental green houso and conservatory plants . 1878 .

Tlie Amateurs Rose Book . Comprising tho cultivation of tho rose in the open ground and under glass : tho formation of the rosarium : the characters of wild and garden roses : tho preparation of the flowers for exhibition : the raising of now variotio 3 and the work of tho rose garden in every season of tho year . A new edition , rovised , enlargod and illustrated with coloured plates and wood engravings .

THE above form a compact series of gnido books , which will be of the greatest possible service to those for whom they havo been written . Tbey aro the books of one of onr most competent authorities . They are admirably and most methodically arranged , the illustrations are extremely well done , and thero is not a singlo

chapter which is not replete with the most valuable instruction . Let us tako the Amateur's Flower Garden first , as we have placed ifc first in the series , and give just a brief outline of its contents . By so doing wo shall demonstrate how fully and exhaustively Mr . Hibberd has treated the sujecfc . After a brief introductory chapter ,

tho author , following out the plan of the well known Mrs . Grundy , of first catching the hare before you cook it , shows how a garden should bo formed before proceeding to lay down instructions for planting it . Chapter II . is dovotcd to " the Parterre , " and the following consecutive chapters on the " Bedding ;

System , and the Plants required for it , " tho " Cultivation of Bedding Plants , " "A Selection of Bedding Plants , " "Hardy Border Flowers , " "A Selection of Hardy Herbaceous Plants , " "Tender Border Flowers , " and " Hardy Annuals and Biennials . " Chapters X . to XIV ., both inclusive , are set apart for the description of various

kinds of gardens , namely , " tho Hose Garden , " "the American Garden , " " the Subtropical Garden , " " the Perpetual Flower Garden , " and " the Eockery and the Alpine Garden . " " Flowers for Winter Bouquet , " in which the advice of a competent anthority is always acceptable , is dealt with . This is followed by two most important

subjects , one of which , tho " Making and tho Managing of the Lawn , " is treated at some length in Chapter XVI ., and the other , " Garden Vermin , " in Chapter XVII . The last two sections of tho volnme include Additional Selections to those already given , " and " Eeminders

of Monthly Work . " These form a fitting , and indeed , a necessary conclusion to a most excellent treatise . The above sketch will not suffice to show tho value of the instructions that aro given , but they are enough to give somo idea of its general character , and this is all it is in our power to do in a notice of this kind .

The Amateur ' s Kitchen Garden is treated much on the samo principle . First we have its formation , then follows a chapter , which is specially intended for the amateur and him only . " Pits and Frames " are then treated , and then tho snbject of " Selecting from the Kitchen Garden . " In the remainder of the work the treatment of the

several kinds of vegetables i 3 described , and among the chapters in which this is done will bo found one ( Chapter XXIII . ) on " the Storage of Hoots , " another ( Chapter XXIV . ) on "Exhibiting , " aud a third ( Chapter XXVII . ) on " Forcing ; " the last two being devoted to "tho Fruit Garden , " and " Eeminders of Monthly Work . "

This has tho advantage of a carefully-prepared Index . The Amateur ' 8 Greenhouse and the Amateurs IJose Book are equally meritorious works , and like tho " Kitchen Garden , " aro both of them furnished with indexes , an advantago which is the one shortcoming that is noteworthy in the " Flower Garden . " As the

season is now approaching when all who can boast of gardens and take pride in them will bo doing their utmost to set them in order , we have no hesitation in commending theso works of Mr . Shirley Hibberd ' s to tho favourable notice of the public . As we said at the commencement , they are very methodically arranged ; there is in

each a mass of useful information , the result of years of study and experience ; and the moro practical of the directions , such as those which relate to the formation and arrangement of gardens , the construction of frames and green or hot honses and conservatories , & c , & c , have the further advantage of being planned or illustrated .

This is a real advantage to the reader , particularly if he is only a tyro in the arts of horticulture and floriculture , for illustrations frequently enable a person to grasp a subject more thoroughly than written directions , however concise and lucid they may be .

However , we havo said' enough to convince onr readers that we placo great value on these four treatises , which form indeed a miniature library on Gardening , and we can only add that we hope the public will reward Mr . Hibberd ' s efforts on its behalf by exhausting the present , and calling for new editions of his works .

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DUKE OF CONNAUGHT LODGE OF INSTRUCTION , NO . 1524 . HAVELOCK TAVERN , ALBION ROAD , DALSTON . T FIFTEEN SECTIONS will be worked in this Lodge of Instruction on Wcilnesuivy , the 15 th May , by ISro . Fioldwick Treceptor . Members of the Craft are invited to attend . The Lodge will he opened at seven o ' clock .

Provincial Grand Lodge Of West Yorkshire.

PROVINCIAL GRAND LODGE OF WEST YORKSHIRE .

FROM TnE LEEDS MERCURY . THE Annual Meeting of tho Provincial Grand Lodge of West Yorkshire Freemasons was hold on Thursday , 23 th April , in the

Largo Room of tho Church Institute , Leeds , under the auspices of the united banners of the seven Leeds Lodges . The preliminary Lodgo was opened in tho threo degrees by the W . M . ' s of the various Lodges , tho position of each officer boing allotted by ballot as follows :

—Bros . Thos . Winn , Goderich , 1211 , as W . M-., Fleming , Goclerieh , 1211 , as I . P . M ., D . E . Glover , Fidelity , 289 , as S . W ., T . C . Taylor , Philanthropic , 301 , as J . W ., John Bell , Alfred , 30 G , as S . D ., A . Whitehead , Zetland , 1311 , as J . D ., George Wilson , Excelsior , 1012 , as I . G ., J . Britton , Defence , 1221 , as Tyler . Immediately on Provincial Grand Lodgo entering and taking their respective chairs , Bro . Winn ,

addressing Sir H . Edwards , Bart . ( Provincial Grand Master ) , on behalf of tho seven Leeds Lodges , said he heartily welcomed the R . W . Provincial Graud Master , and trusted the gathering that day would tend to increase tho happiness and pleasure ho felt in occupying tho high aud honourable position ho did in tho Craft . ( Applause ) .

After tho Provincial Grand Lodgo had been duly opened with prayer and tho reading of a passage of Scriptnro , tho Eight Worshipful Provincial Grand Master ( Sir II . Edwards ) and tho Deputy Provincial Grand Master ( Bro . T . W . Tow J . P . ) wero saluted in ancient style and in the heartiest manner . In rosponso , Sir Henry Edwards said—Officers and Brethren of this Provincial

Grand Lodge , —Accept from me the assurance that I am gratified for tho manifestation of cordiality which you havo exhibited towards your Provincial Grand Blaster , and which I interpret as faithfully reflecting the fraternal sentiments of tho Crafb in this provinco towards me , and in which tho Leeds brethren also havo displayed so much good will and enthusiasm . The trouble tho Committee , as

the representative of tho sovou Lodges , has takon to hold our annual meeting in this town has been groat ; a meeting which uninitiated persons , ontsido the Masonic circle , would criticise perhaps as a gatheriug of a peculiar community merely to exchango a few complimentary remarks of fraternal greeting , but which is of itself to us assembled a well understood symbolism of the doctrines and

charitable principles represented by our Masonic costume , and which I interpret as the expression of your deep attachment to our ancient and time-honoured Order . I thank the seven Lodges for their reception of Provincial Grand Lodgo ; and I thank you all , brethren , for your individual salutation , under circumstances of eventful interest to tho brotherhood in West Yorkshire . Tho pleasuro of greeting

yon all here to-day is , I am bound to say , tinged with melancholy . What was intended by the Committee of the seven Lodges to have resulted in one of the most brilliant and joyous of our annual assemblies , and upon an extended scale of hospitality , has been curtailed to a simple reception of Provincial Grand Lodge , from respect to the memory of a distinguished brother , lately amongst us as a bvighfc

and shining light in Freemasonry . ( Hear , hear . ) Bro . Jefferoy , tho Secretary to the Committee of tho seven Lodges , has therefore postponed to a more fitting occasion the entertainment to this Provincial Grand Lodge , which formed tho original programme . But I heartily acknowledge the obligations to this Committee on tho union of the seven Lodges , and thank them all again for their invitation to meet

at Leeds for tho third time during my occupation of this chair of the Province . At this moment wo have not recovered from tho shock tho Craft has sustained by the death , last month , of tho late Deputy of this Province , and Grand Superintendent of Eoyal Arch Masons . Those ties of friendship which commenced between himself and the Masonic body on the loth January 1816 , when he was initiated a

member of the Lodgo of Harmony , at Huddersfield , have been snapped asunder by tho death of Bro . Bentley Shaw . This Province has been deprived of the services aud experience of one of tho ablest of her counsellors . Thoso amongst us who have been since 184 G associated with the late Deputy in an official capacity must now again acknowledge and appreciate his qualifications for administering

the affairs of this Province , the brightness of his intelligence , and the judicial impartiality of his conduct when fulfilling the duties of this chair . I trust , brethren , you will reciprocate in the desire of your Prov . Grand Master that our united sympathies , by a resolution of condolence , should be passed by this Lodge and conveyed to Bro . Shaw ' s family . The expression of sentiments of regret by this

resolution , which stands in my name , is a Masonic principle hallowed by all our traditions and ancient customs , " to weep with them that weep , and to mourn with them that mourn . '' We beseech the Great Architect of the Universe to givo to the family of our departed brother His richest consolation under the domestic bereavement with which ifc is visited , and may we all be as we verily bolievo he was ,

when our span of life is ending , ready to enter the Grand Lodge above , eternal in the heavens . ( Applause . ) I again congratulate the Craft on tho re-elcctiou of His Eoyal Highness tho Prince of Wales as Grand Master of England . Freemasonry is spreading in all directions under his administration . Last year 63 Warrants for new Lodges were granted , and 8 , 4 G 5 Grand Lodge certificates issued

to new members in the Order of the Grand Lodge of England . Tho foundation of every new Lodge is a stone added to tho edifice of Masonic civilisation , and each now member a link to that fraternal chain of brotherly love , charity and mercy , which binds together peaceful , loving communities of tho earth . I mention with pleasnre the sum of ; G 601 , contributed by the Lodges and brethren of this

Province , to the Eoyal Masonic Fnnd on tho 13 th February , at which my deputy was present . The circumstances of the times are not more settled than when I addressed you in January last , rather the political anxieties of the moment are intensified , aud there is that consequent depression of trade which prevents the Craft from contributing more liberally at present ; nevertheless , tho total sum