Royal Arch.

William Watson , who is acting as Honorary Librarian and Curator . Brother Brooke , of Doucaster , has jusr . given a valuable parcel containing several exceedingly rare works . I may mention one" Entick ' s Constitutions , 1767 , " with Appendix attached . We thank him heartily for this present to the Library and Museum at

Wakefield . Supreme Grand Chapter haa likewise contributed a mosfc valuable set of its old and original Minutes aud Transactions of its Quarterly Convocations . To bind these into book form a small contributiou will be asked from the Chapter Funds . I think our Charity Committee can be heartily congratulated on the election

of two girls into the "Royal Masonic Institution , " ou the 14 th April ; and two boys into the aualagous Institution , at Wood Green , on the 16 th April . The West Yorkshire Girls' Centenary list now amounts to £ 1800 . The Chairman of the Charity Committee will move a resolution thereon , for a donation from the Chapter in

augmentation of it . Supreme Grand Chapter has granted One hundred guineas from its funds , as a donation to the same Institution and Pestival . My annual difficulty confronts me—fco appoint Officers for the coming year . I can only , by the General Regulations of Supreme Grand Chapter , select 19 out of 38 Chapters

on the Roll of Grand Chapter—18 Chapters are left out . Would I could confer office upon all . I have done my best , and regret I have no power to do more to recognise deserving merit everywhere . Royal Arch Masons in Rotherham bave the example of the life of a famous ecclesiastic to follow in noble and generous deeds .

Thomas Scott , alias Rotherham , Bishop of Lincoln , Lord Chancellor of England , and Archbishop of York from 1480 to 1500 . Ho founded in this town , in the year 1483 , Jesus College . He lived in exciting and troublous times ( Edward IV ., Richard III ., and Henry VII . ) By his life and good works he showed the influence of

the principles which adorned his character , —the principles of this beautiful degree . I commend his history to your attention . It has this grand moral , which ought to be cultivated by every Companion amongst ns , viz .: — " To do nnto others as we would wish to be done by , " wbich is the ultimatum of all terrestrial happiness ,

imitating in itself every virtue a Royal Arch Mason can possess . May we then , as Companions , so study virtue , like this great Archbishop , as to hand down to posterity names like his own , unpolluted by vice , and worthy of imitation . Companions , I thank you for your salutation and reception in No . 904 , and may health , peace aud goodwill bo to all of you .

Comp . William Harrison P . G . Treasurer , presented his balance-sheet , which showed the balance in theW . K . U . Bank , Dewsbury , on 30 th April , to be £ 215 13 s 5 d . It was moved by Comp . Ensor Drury , seconded by Comp .

Rev . Dr . T . C . Smyth , and resolved , " That the balancesheet be adopted . " Moved by Comp . Thomas Harrison , seconded by Comp . Di \ T . C . Smyth , and resolved , "That Comp . George Henry Locking be elected Treasurer for the ensuing year . " The Grand Superintendent then appointed and invested the Prov . Grand Officers for the ensuing year as follow : —

E . Cp . Hy . Joseph Garnett P . Z . 29 b' - II . T . Bateman Pox P . Z . 2 US - J . Henry Smith P . Z . 302 - - Scribe E . W . Ridgard Mussie P . Z . 1513 - Scribe N . George H . Locking ( elected ) Z . 495 - - - Treasurer Capt . E . T . Clarke P . Z . 458 - Registrar Hugh S . Holdsworth P . Z . 418 - Pi in . Soj . Wm . Chas . Ellisdon P . Z . 30 G . - 1 st Asst . Soj . John Shaw P . Z . 139 - - 2 nd Asst , Soj .

Jessie Arthur Thornton P . Z . 1019 Sword Bearer Fred Smart P . Z . 302 . - Standard Bearer Thomas Barber P . Z . 652 . Director of Ceremonies Sidney Thomas Steele , M . D ., P . Z . 380 - - - Assistant D . of C .

Joshua Paget Priestley J . 600 •Organist Herbert G . E . Green P . Z . 151 - Asst . Scribe E . Samuel Barrand Janitor 301 - Janitor Richard Carter , J . P ., P . Z . 1001- " ) George Brooke P . Z . 212 - ( Stewards

John Wm . Bailey P . Z . 304 - C Frederick Cleeves Z . 901 . - ) •Comp . John Wordsworth moved , and Comp . J . E . Wordsworth seconded , and ifc was resolved , thafc £ 10 10 s be contributed to the Centenary Kund of the li . M .

Institution for Girls . Ifc was moved b y Comp . T . B . Fox , seconded by Comp . W . 0 . Ellisdon , and resolved , "That £ 2 2 s be granted for Library expenses . " Comp . Capfc . Clarke called attention to Bye-law ( j , -which re ids . ; :. , follows : — "Any Provincial Graud Oiiiuor nofc a , i . ten ding

Provincial Grand Chapter , after having been duly summoned—unless a siulioivnt reason in writing be assigned for such absence—shall be lined live shillings . " Moved by Comp . T . B . Fox , seconded b y Comp . Frederick Lax to : ; . and resolved , " Thafc a . vole of i hanks be accorded to the Z .

ancl Companions of Chapter 0 u-l , for their kind invitation and excellent arrangement :- ' . " The Scrib . 3 E . r ;> :: d . a . letter from Comp . H . C . Pickersgii ! Z . 837 , inviting tlie Grand ; Superintendent to hold tho . eu > vemb : r meeting in Sinon ,

whereupon the Grand Duperintendeni said he would shortly decide where the next meeting should be held . Tea waa provided at the Shi p Hotel , ol which oi Gompanions partook , the Grand Superintendent presiding .

Lambton Chapter, No. 94.

LAMBTON CHAPTER , No . 94 .

PHE annual convocation vvas held on Tuesday , 2 lth nit ., at thePreemasons' Hall , Sunderland , tor the installation of Principals for the ensuing year . Comps . J . C . Moor Z ., E . Sutherst H ., and J . G . Gairick J ., were the presiding Principals . The Principals were installed as follows—Ephiaitu Suthers Z ., J . G . Garrick H .,

Dawson J . ; Henderson S . E ., Cohen S . N ., Scarborough P . S ., Hudson Treasurer , Craven 1 st ; A . S ., Bolko Smeichm 2 ud A . S ., Clay D . C . After other businesss the Chapter was closed in due form .

Reviews.

REVIEWS .

All Books inended lor Review should be addressed fco the Editor of Tlie Freemason ' s Chronicle , Belvidere Works , Hermes Hill , Pentonville , London , N . : o : Ars Quatuor Coronatorum . Being the Transactions of the Lodge Quatuor Coronati , No . 2076 , London . Yolume I ., Part iii .

THE proc < adings of thia Lodge tell their own tale , and a very interesting one ifc will be found to be , by the privileged reaaers of- the latest number of Ars Quatuor Coronatorum . To begin with , the Papers , or Lectures , actually read before tho Lodge are three in number , and we shall assign them a priority of description in our remarks , because

it is only by a critical appraisement of the quality of what may be termed the special work of the members , that any conclusion can be arrived at with regard to the continuance of the degree of favour with which so bold an innovation upon established usage has already been received . The first of the series , " The Three-fold Division of

Temples , " was read by the S . W ., Bro . William Simpson , and embodies the results of his actual personal observations in Egypt , India , China , A . byssiuia , Rome , Turkey and Salt Lake City . After a brief exordium our author thus expresses himself : — " We find in the Masonic Lodge , with its Three-fold division and its

rites , the most complete symbolical development ; we have the Universe and its deepest mystery represented to us in fche form of a temple with its ceremonies . " After this he alludes to a curious oriental tradition thafc there was a dead body in fche Ark , to which Noah and his family directed their

prayers , aud the subject was further elucidated at a later stage by thu I . G ., Bro . Westcott , who cites , on the authority of D'Ohsson , a legend that Noah after leaving the Ark restored the body of Adam to the cave he hid laken it from . But to return to the Lecture—Bro . Simpson observes : —

" I believe thafc the Ark of the Covenant was a symbolical coffin . I hope at another limo to lay before you the evidence ou this head ; it is tin important point in relation to Ma-otary , the derivation ofthe Lodgo from the Temple is sufficiently reco < inzt > d , but if it be accepted that , the Aik had a reference to death , tneu the identity becomes

much more complete . We should like to reproduce tho whole of this most interesting Paper , but as this would ba exceeding the licence of the reviewer , we refrain even from further clippings lest wo mig hr , be carried too fur . But we have no hesitation in re ording our opinion , that in

'' Tlie Three-fold Division of Temples , " the Lodge of the Quatuor Corouuti has sensibly improved upon all previous efforts of a similar kind , and that for the present , at all events , in this particular department of labour , tho Senior Warden "wears the belt , " aud we need entertain very little doubt of his making a stout li ^ ht to retain it , on

the occasion ot his reading a second or couiplemeutal Paper , to be entitled '' The Worship of D ath , " whioh Bro . Simpson informs ns in a supplementary note " will be in a sense a continuation of 'The Three-fold Division of Temples , ' aud will be devoted to the consideration of the Temp e as a Tomb . " Bro . Simpson ' s lecture was

succeeded by a very full discussion , iu which Bros . Cama , Castle , Woodman , Westcott , Spetb , Hay ter Lewis , aud Ry lauds took part ; some of the observations , ou account of the lateness of the hour , being communicated in writing fco tbe Secretary . The Paper afc the next meeting— "A Word on the Legends of the

Compagnouuage "—vvas read by Bro . W . H . Ry lands , and throws some additional gleams of light ou a subject of equal interest and obscurity . Observations upon it were made by the VV . M . aud Secretary , and following tbe example of his immediate predecessor the S . W ., Bro . Rylauds will cuiiiiibute nt nn early date a supplementary ,

or concluding lecture , ou the same subject . Tho hist of the series— " Two Xaw Versions of the Old Charges "was read by the Secretary , Bro . Speth , and is chieily remarkable for au aniii / ti'iul inquiry—after the manner of Edgar Alien Foe—pursued

by that indefatigable brother , in what wo deem to be a successful attempt to wrest from the context ihe date of some doggrel rhymes , . vritu n oil one of the MSS . hy a later blind . The versus have fche Aillo' . ving termination : —

"ffreo Masons beware Brother Bacon advises It . terlupors break Iu & Spoil Your Devices You : Gibliu & Squalen aro all Oufc of Door Aid Jachiti anil Uou . isha . il boo Socretfca no wore . " Bio . Spejh claims to have de-uonsfcrutud that tho fourteen lines of

doggrel , of whicii the hi-vsr , four are given above , wero written between April 11 , 1713 , aud August 12 , 1711 , ancl remarks : — " Ad ; . ei ' . is-fqirencr : v ;» arc b ,. i-., l ro admit ; that previous to 1717 , t ' . ie ciauj of tho Graud Lod ^ e ot England , thero existed an ampler rituvi tr . aa certain umongac ns bav-j been wilting to concede , and

from the parage ' interloper .: ! break iu /—mark tho significance of ' ,, ' LUIC , not creep , or glide , or any uualogous word , but Greafc , signifying strength , number , — AO may further assumo that a largo influx of gentlemen was alread y beginning to swamp tho old operative element . " The articles or contribution 3 of numbers ( of tha Outer aa wall as of