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Reviews.
REVIEWS .
All Books intended for Beview should be addressed to the Editor of The Freemason ' s Chronicle , 23 Great Queen Street , W . C . The Freemasons' Calendar and Directory for Leicestershire and Rutland , 1881 . Ninth Year of Publication . Comprising a Calondar for the your 1881 , and the month of January 1882 , the meetings of Grand Lodgo and Grand Chapter , the Anniversary Festivals
and the Meeting of the Craft Lodges , Royal Arch Chapters , aud other Masonic Bodies in the Province . To which are added Lists of Officers for tho year , also Lists of Lodges in the adjoining Provinces of Warwickshire , Norths and Hunts , Nottinghamshire , Derbyshire , and Staffordshire ; and other Masonic Information . Published by authority of tho Eight Worshipful Provincial Grand Master , and the Provincial Grand Lodge . Compiled by Brother Samuel S . Partridge P . M ., P . P . S . G . W ., Provincial Grand Secretary .
Wi : are glad to find the practice of publishing Calendars for the different Provinces is on the increase . It is only by means of such useful compilations as these that Wo are enabled to gauge tho real strength of Masonry in this country , and we should very much liko to see them generally adopted . Leicestershire and Rutland , albeit , as regards the numerical strength of its Lodges and members , it is
one of the smallest among our Provinces , is very far from being the least mindful of its duties . Its Lodges are attentive to their work , thanks to the interest taken by its Provincial Grand Master , Earl Ferrers , and his predecessor , Bro . W . Kelly . It freely supports our Institutions , aud what is still moro unusual , it has a very fair library at Leicester . Under thoso circumstances , it is not to bo wondered
at that this Province should for some years past have been in the habit of issuing a Calendar , that in the period of its issue such Calendar should havo beon greatly improved , and that now in its ninth year of publication , it exhibits a completeness which is in the highest degree creditable to Bro . S . S . Partridge Prov . G . Secretary , on whom has devolved tho task of compiling it . As to the contents ,
we note , in the first place , that tho Calendar embraces a period of fourteen months , it being found impossible , or , at all events , impolitic , to issue it before tho month of February . Then each month of tho year is provided with two pages , in the first of which are entered against the days of each month the meetings which take place on them , while tho other is left clear for the entry of
engagements . Lists of the Officers of Grand Lodgo of England and the Prov . G . Lodge respectively follow , and then a table chronologically arranged , of tho chief events which have occurred in the Province during the period from 1870 to 1880 inclusive . The next lists are of those of the Prov . Grand Lodge Committee of General Purposes , and tho Charity Committee of Prov . Grand Lod » e . The list of Craft
Lodges , with the dates of constitution , followed by nominal lists tho Officers and Past Masters , together with particulars as to their respective places of meeting , aud the number of subscribing members on the respective rolls , are given as of course , and then full particulars of tho Prov . Grand Chapter with its subordinate Chapters , of the Prov . Grand Mark Lodge aud its subordinate Lodges , with a list
of the Officers of the Byzantine Conclave of the Order of tho Red Cross of Constantine . After the list of Lodges , Craft and Mark , aud Chapters , & c , comes ono of Officers of the Leicester Library Committee . We have a brief re ' snmd of particulars of each of tho central Masonic Institutions ; and lastly , a statement showing the character of the Leicestershire and Rutland Masonic Charity Association ,
together with a table , in which is exhibited the full voting strength of the Province . From these it appears that the object of the Association , which was established only two years ago , is to increase the number of Life Subscribers to the three Central Charities . An annual subscription of one guinea and upwards constitutes membershi p , and at the end of five years—or earlier still in the event of his name being
drawn at one of the half-yearly ballots—each member becomes a Life Subscriber to one of the three Charities . It has at the present time 124 members , and in the two years of its existence has given ninety-five guineas to the Girls' School , a hundred and fifty-five guineas to the Boys' School , and sixty guineas to the Benevolent , making together a totel of three hundred and ten guineas
( £ 325 10 s ) . We learn , further , that during the past four years the Province has given to the Girls' School , £ 417 lis ; to the Boys' School , £ fil-2 8 s 6 d , and to the Benevolent , £ 156 17 s , or together £ 1216 16 s 6 d . This represents the sums actuall y paid up to the 31 st December 1880 , sums voted , but not paid , being excluded . From statistics which appeared in our
contemporary in May of last year it seems this Province stood 27 th on the Girls' School list in respect of the support awarded by it to that Institution , and 15 th on that of the Boys' School . From the letter of a " Past Master " which appeared in our issue for the week ended 20 th March , and the tabular statements he furnished , it appears that Leicestershire and Rutland up to the close of 1880 stood 23 rd on the
Girls' School list , and 11 th on that of the Boys , while , taking the two together , it stood 19 th , with an average of 30 ^ votes per Lodge . This is a matter on which the Province has reason to congratulate itself . Wo will add that the total of subscribing members in the Province is 457 , which gives an average in excess of forty-five members per Lodge . The total votes the Province has for the three Institutions together amount to 447 , namely , 107 for the E . M . I . G .: 188 to the
R . M . I . B . ; 77 to the Male Fund and 75 to the Female Fund of the R . M . I . B . But as there are two elections for each of the Schools , the actual voting power which Leicestershire and Rutland can bring to bear is 712 votes . In conclusion wo congratulate the Province , and especially Bro . Partridge Prov . G . Secretary , the compiler , on having so admirable a Masonic Calendar and Directory—one which contains so much useful information , and on the compilation of which so much paiua has evidently been bestowed .
Reviews.
Masonic Calmdar and Official Directory for the Province of Wiltshire Issued with the sanction of the Right Worshipful Provincial Grand Master Lord Methuen . Edited by William Nott P . M . 663 , P . Z . 632 , & c , Provincial Grand Registrar . Tins is the first year of issue , and consequently some allowance must be made in the oase of any errors having crept in . The difficulties
which any one who undertakes the publication of a book of this description is sure to experience can only be appreciated by those who havo had to deal with similar tasks . The work looks so simple when it is dono that people feel inclined to suggest that any one might venture upon it . But the collection of particulars from several dif . ferent sources involves no end of trouble . However . Bro . Nott
appears to have worked with a will , and presents his book on a well , arranged plan , such as entitles him to the heartiest commendation of the Masons of Wiltshire . As the particulars he furnishes are very similar to those contaiued in the Leicestershire and Rntlaud Directory , we need not revise them so fully . The Calendar extends over thirteen months , from January 1881 to January 1882 inclusive , the
additional month being given because so many of the Installation Meetings take place in December and January , and Bro . Nott waa anxious that the list of Officers should be as complote as possible No blank pages , however , are fnrnished for the engagements . After the lists of Grand Officers of England and Prov . G . Officers for Wilt , shire , and the Roll of Lodges—ton in number—with their respective
dates of Constitution aud places of meeting , come the nominal lists of Officers and Past Masters for each Lodge , the number of subscribing members , date of Installation Meeting , and the address of the Secretary being added in eaoh case . Similar particulars are fnrnished in respect of Royal Arch and Mark Masonry , dates of constitution , which are not contained in the Leicestershire and
Rutland Directory , being also given . The Central Masonic Charities having received their due share of attention , and all necessary par . ticulars as to subscriptions , incomo , expenditure , and the number of beneficiaries furnished by the Provincial Charity Organisation and Benevolent Fund , is fully described . First is given a list of the Committee and Lodge Representatives , and then the rules of the
Association as they were adopted at the Prov . Grand Lodge held at Marlborough in October of last year . The objects of this Benevolent Fund are Btated as being four in number , namely , ( a ) The Relief of aged or necessitons brethren of tho Province or their indigent widows ; ( 6 ) the relief , education , and advancement of the children of the Freemasons of the Province ; ( c ) the support of the general
Masonic Charities , subject to the approval of the Prov . Grand Lodge ; and ( d ) Masonic Benevolent and Charitable purposes generally . The rules givo particulars as to membership , arrangements for carrying on the business of the Fund , the manner in which application should be made , and the character of the information , & c , to be furnished in support of tho petition , & c , & c . There is also a Report
as to the proceedings during the year preceding , as presented to the P . Grand Lodge on 28 th October 1880 , recording what was done in tho way of supporting the Wiltshire candidates for the Girls' School . This Report is followed by a Table of the votes for the three Charities possessed by Lodges and individual members , from which it appears
that with a total membership in the proviuce of 443 brethren , Wiltshire was able to exercise a voting power in-1880 of 1132 votes , including , of course , chose cast at the October , as well as April , elections for both Schools . This completes the Calendar , which we trust will henceforward make its appearance regularly every year .
Committee Meeting Of The Boys' School.
COMMITTEE MEETING OF THE BOYS' SCHOOL .
THE monthly meeting of the General Committee of the Royal Masonic Institution for Boys was held last Saturday , at Free , masons' Hall . There were present Bros . Raynham W . Stewart P . G . D . V . P . ( in the chair ) , George J . Row , W . Roebuck , H . W . Hunt , W . Paas , F . W . Ramsay , S . Rosenthal , Alfred Williams , S . Rawaon , John Constable , Rev . Richard Morris , D . D . ( Head Master ) , C . H
Webb , Richard Tyrrell , H . Massey , A . J . Duff-Filer , W . Maple , Geo . P . Gillard , W . H . Saunders , F . Adlard , Don . M . Dewar , John Palmer , George Cooper , Thomas Meggy , and F . Binckes Secretary . Two boys were placed on the list for election in October . The Secretary announced that in consequence of three candidates being withdrawn ,
there would be seventy-three instead of seventy-six candidates for the twenty vacancies at the election next Monday . Some information having been received in respect to another candinate , a decision on the case was deferred for further information ; Bro . Sannders thereupon again brought forward his proposition for making the
inquiries as to the means of candidates' friends more searching . Bro . Binckes suggested a form of declaration as to pecuniary means at the end of the petition . Two outfits of £ 5 each were granted to ex-pupils . Bro . Binckes informed the Committee " that the following were the notices of motion for the Quarterly Court on Monday next : —
1 . By Bro . Thomas Entwisle , Vice-President , per Bro . C . *• Matier : — To alter Law LV ., by inserting after the word " livelihood " ( at the end of Law ) the words " in any of which cases , except that of sudden death , the father must have been a subscribing member to a
Lodge for three years . " 2 . By Bro . A . J . Duff-Filer , Vice-Patron : — In Law LXXII . ( authorising a grant of money by the General Committee to a boy having left the Institution ) to erase the word 3 " twenty pounds " in line 2 , and in lieu thereof to insert the words " forty pounds . "
3 . By resolution of the General Committee , on the recommendation of the House and Building Committee : — That the House and Biilding Committee be authorised to expend a sum not exceeding £ 700 in the enlargement of the Gymnasium , & " •' reudered necessary by the increase in the number of boys from 10 " to 215 .
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Reviews.
REVIEWS .
All Books intended for Beview should be addressed to the Editor of The Freemason ' s Chronicle , 23 Great Queen Street , W . C . The Freemasons' Calendar and Directory for Leicestershire and Rutland , 1881 . Ninth Year of Publication . Comprising a Calondar for the your 1881 , and the month of January 1882 , the meetings of Grand Lodgo and Grand Chapter , the Anniversary Festivals
and the Meeting of the Craft Lodges , Royal Arch Chapters , aud other Masonic Bodies in the Province . To which are added Lists of Officers for tho year , also Lists of Lodges in the adjoining Provinces of Warwickshire , Norths and Hunts , Nottinghamshire , Derbyshire , and Staffordshire ; and other Masonic Information . Published by authority of tho Eight Worshipful Provincial Grand Master , and the Provincial Grand Lodge . Compiled by Brother Samuel S . Partridge P . M ., P . P . S . G . W ., Provincial Grand Secretary .
Wi : are glad to find the practice of publishing Calendars for the different Provinces is on the increase . It is only by means of such useful compilations as these that Wo are enabled to gauge tho real strength of Masonry in this country , and we should very much liko to see them generally adopted . Leicestershire and Rutland , albeit , as regards the numerical strength of its Lodges and members , it is
one of the smallest among our Provinces , is very far from being the least mindful of its duties . Its Lodges are attentive to their work , thanks to the interest taken by its Provincial Grand Master , Earl Ferrers , and his predecessor , Bro . W . Kelly . It freely supports our Institutions , aud what is still moro unusual , it has a very fair library at Leicester . Under thoso circumstances , it is not to bo wondered
at that this Province should for some years past have been in the habit of issuing a Calendar , that in the period of its issue such Calendar should havo beon greatly improved , and that now in its ninth year of publication , it exhibits a completeness which is in the highest degree creditable to Bro . S . S . Partridge Prov . G . Secretary , on whom has devolved tho task of compiling it . As to the contents ,
we note , in the first place , that tho Calendar embraces a period of fourteen months , it being found impossible , or , at all events , impolitic , to issue it before tho month of February . Then each month of tho year is provided with two pages , in the first of which are entered against the days of each month the meetings which take place on them , while tho other is left clear for the entry of
engagements . Lists of the Officers of Grand Lodgo of England and the Prov . G . Lodge respectively follow , and then a table chronologically arranged , of tho chief events which have occurred in the Province during the period from 1870 to 1880 inclusive . The next lists are of those of the Prov . Grand Lodge Committee of General Purposes , and tho Charity Committee of Prov . Grand Lod » e . The list of Craft
Lodges , with the dates of constitution , followed by nominal lists tho Officers and Past Masters , together with particulars as to their respective places of meeting , aud the number of subscribing members on the respective rolls , are given as of course , and then full particulars of tho Prov . Grand Chapter with its subordinate Chapters , of the Prov . Grand Mark Lodge aud its subordinate Lodges , with a list
of the Officers of the Byzantine Conclave of the Order of tho Red Cross of Constantine . After the list of Lodges , Craft and Mark , aud Chapters , & c , comes ono of Officers of the Leicester Library Committee . We have a brief re ' snmd of particulars of each of tho central Masonic Institutions ; and lastly , a statement showing the character of the Leicestershire and Rutland Masonic Charity Association ,
together with a table , in which is exhibited the full voting strength of the Province . From these it appears that the object of the Association , which was established only two years ago , is to increase the number of Life Subscribers to the three Central Charities . An annual subscription of one guinea and upwards constitutes membershi p , and at the end of five years—or earlier still in the event of his name being
drawn at one of the half-yearly ballots—each member becomes a Life Subscriber to one of the three Charities . It has at the present time 124 members , and in the two years of its existence has given ninety-five guineas to the Girls' School , a hundred and fifty-five guineas to the Boys' School , and sixty guineas to the Benevolent , making together a totel of three hundred and ten guineas
( £ 325 10 s ) . We learn , further , that during the past four years the Province has given to the Girls' School , £ 417 lis ; to the Boys' School , £ fil-2 8 s 6 d , and to the Benevolent , £ 156 17 s , or together £ 1216 16 s 6 d . This represents the sums actuall y paid up to the 31 st December 1880 , sums voted , but not paid , being excluded . From statistics which appeared in our
contemporary in May of last year it seems this Province stood 27 th on the Girls' School list in respect of the support awarded by it to that Institution , and 15 th on that of the Boys' School . From the letter of a " Past Master " which appeared in our issue for the week ended 20 th March , and the tabular statements he furnished , it appears that Leicestershire and Rutland up to the close of 1880 stood 23 rd on the
Girls' School list , and 11 th on that of the Boys , while , taking the two together , it stood 19 th , with an average of 30 ^ votes per Lodge . This is a matter on which the Province has reason to congratulate itself . Wo will add that the total of subscribing members in the Province is 457 , which gives an average in excess of forty-five members per Lodge . The total votes the Province has for the three Institutions together amount to 447 , namely , 107 for the E . M . I . G .: 188 to the
R . M . I . B . ; 77 to the Male Fund and 75 to the Female Fund of the R . M . I . B . But as there are two elections for each of the Schools , the actual voting power which Leicestershire and Rutland can bring to bear is 712 votes . In conclusion wo congratulate the Province , and especially Bro . Partridge Prov . G . Secretary , the compiler , on having so admirable a Masonic Calendar and Directory—one which contains so much useful information , and on the compilation of which so much paiua has evidently been bestowed .
Reviews.
Masonic Calmdar and Official Directory for the Province of Wiltshire Issued with the sanction of the Right Worshipful Provincial Grand Master Lord Methuen . Edited by William Nott P . M . 663 , P . Z . 632 , & c , Provincial Grand Registrar . Tins is the first year of issue , and consequently some allowance must be made in the oase of any errors having crept in . The difficulties
which any one who undertakes the publication of a book of this description is sure to experience can only be appreciated by those who havo had to deal with similar tasks . The work looks so simple when it is dono that people feel inclined to suggest that any one might venture upon it . But the collection of particulars from several dif . ferent sources involves no end of trouble . However . Bro . Nott
appears to have worked with a will , and presents his book on a well , arranged plan , such as entitles him to the heartiest commendation of the Masons of Wiltshire . As the particulars he furnishes are very similar to those contaiued in the Leicestershire and Rntlaud Directory , we need not revise them so fully . The Calendar extends over thirteen months , from January 1881 to January 1882 inclusive , the
additional month being given because so many of the Installation Meetings take place in December and January , and Bro . Nott waa anxious that the list of Officers should be as complote as possible No blank pages , however , are fnrnished for the engagements . After the lists of Grand Officers of England and Prov . G . Officers for Wilt , shire , and the Roll of Lodges—ton in number—with their respective
dates of Constitution aud places of meeting , come the nominal lists of Officers and Past Masters for each Lodge , the number of subscribing members , date of Installation Meeting , and the address of the Secretary being added in eaoh case . Similar particulars are fnrnished in respect of Royal Arch and Mark Masonry , dates of constitution , which are not contained in the Leicestershire and
Rutland Directory , being also given . The Central Masonic Charities having received their due share of attention , and all necessary par . ticulars as to subscriptions , incomo , expenditure , and the number of beneficiaries furnished by the Provincial Charity Organisation and Benevolent Fund , is fully described . First is given a list of the Committee and Lodge Representatives , and then the rules of the
Association as they were adopted at the Prov . Grand Lodge held at Marlborough in October of last year . The objects of this Benevolent Fund are Btated as being four in number , namely , ( a ) The Relief of aged or necessitons brethren of tho Province or their indigent widows ; ( 6 ) the relief , education , and advancement of the children of the Freemasons of the Province ; ( c ) the support of the general
Masonic Charities , subject to the approval of the Prov . Grand Lodge ; and ( d ) Masonic Benevolent and Charitable purposes generally . The rules givo particulars as to membership , arrangements for carrying on the business of the Fund , the manner in which application should be made , and the character of the information , & c , to be furnished in support of tho petition , & c , & c . There is also a Report
as to the proceedings during the year preceding , as presented to the P . Grand Lodge on 28 th October 1880 , recording what was done in tho way of supporting the Wiltshire candidates for the Girls' School . This Report is followed by a Table of the votes for the three Charities possessed by Lodges and individual members , from which it appears
that with a total membership in the proviuce of 443 brethren , Wiltshire was able to exercise a voting power in-1880 of 1132 votes , including , of course , chose cast at the October , as well as April , elections for both Schools . This completes the Calendar , which we trust will henceforward make its appearance regularly every year .
Committee Meeting Of The Boys' School.
COMMITTEE MEETING OF THE BOYS' SCHOOL .
THE monthly meeting of the General Committee of the Royal Masonic Institution for Boys was held last Saturday , at Free , masons' Hall . There were present Bros . Raynham W . Stewart P . G . D . V . P . ( in the chair ) , George J . Row , W . Roebuck , H . W . Hunt , W . Paas , F . W . Ramsay , S . Rosenthal , Alfred Williams , S . Rawaon , John Constable , Rev . Richard Morris , D . D . ( Head Master ) , C . H
Webb , Richard Tyrrell , H . Massey , A . J . Duff-Filer , W . Maple , Geo . P . Gillard , W . H . Saunders , F . Adlard , Don . M . Dewar , John Palmer , George Cooper , Thomas Meggy , and F . Binckes Secretary . Two boys were placed on the list for election in October . The Secretary announced that in consequence of three candidates being withdrawn ,
there would be seventy-three instead of seventy-six candidates for the twenty vacancies at the election next Monday . Some information having been received in respect to another candinate , a decision on the case was deferred for further information ; Bro . Sannders thereupon again brought forward his proposition for making the
inquiries as to the means of candidates' friends more searching . Bro . Binckes suggested a form of declaration as to pecuniary means at the end of the petition . Two outfits of £ 5 each were granted to ex-pupils . Bro . Binckes informed the Committee " that the following were the notices of motion for the Quarterly Court on Monday next : —
1 . By Bro . Thomas Entwisle , Vice-President , per Bro . C . *• Matier : — To alter Law LV ., by inserting after the word " livelihood " ( at the end of Law ) the words " in any of which cases , except that of sudden death , the father must have been a subscribing member to a
Lodge for three years . " 2 . By Bro . A . J . Duff-Filer , Vice-Patron : — In Law LXXII . ( authorising a grant of money by the General Committee to a boy having left the Institution ) to erase the word 3 " twenty pounds " in line 2 , and in lieu thereof to insert the words " forty pounds . "
3 . By resolution of the General Committee , on the recommendation of the House and Building Committee : — That the House and Biilding Committee be authorised to expend a sum not exceeding £ 700 in the enlargement of the Gymnasium , & " •' reudered necessary by the increase in the number of boys from 10 " to 215 .