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Freemason's' Quarterly Review.
the general conduction and execution of this inaugral number , alike creditable to the editor and publishers , and worthy of the interest it represents , and which bids fair to secure for it a large patronage and support . Gloucester Journal . —This publication supplies a want which has long been felt amongst the " Craft . " As an eligible medium of conveying masonic information it will be cordially received ; and we have no doubt , therefore , adequately and extensively supported . Nor is its interest entirely confined to the brotherhood , for it contains literary articles of a miscellaneous nature , suitable to the general reader . We cordially wish success to the undertaking . Noruni : h Me > . —The fitst number of a periodicalentitled The 3 ? Teeraason ' s Quarterly
cury , Review , has appeared , which proposes to combine general information upon passing events , with more particular attention to the subject of Masonry . The topics of which it treats will be found valuable to the brethren , who are invited ia an introductory address to support an undertaking which has for its object the advancement of the interests of the body , and the disabusing the world , upon a subject which , taking truth , knowledge , and charity for its basis , deserves respect rather than the prejudice it encounters . In the first number we may more particularly point out the articles headed on Freemasonry and Masonic Intelligence , and a tale called Thc Masonwhich is well imagined and elegantly written .
, Norfolk Clironicle—Among the advertising columns of our paper will be found the announcement of a new periodical , entitled " The Freemasons' Quarterly Review . " Of this publication we have been favoured with a copy of the first number , which came out at the commencement of the present month , aud willingly call the attention ofthe Masonic Craft in this city and county to its pages . Nor would we decline to say something more , as of ourselves , respecting it , — ¦ ... ¦ , * ' But , alas J
To their own bards must leave the mystic class . " " In vain" ( adds CRABBB , in his admirable poem of ( The Borough ); — ** In vain shall one , and not a gifted man Attempt to sing of this enlightened clan , I know no word , boast no directing sign . And not one token of the race is mine . " Alike disqualified with the poet , both for singing and for saying much on such a subject , we can only undertake to express our satisfaction that the opinions of our London
contemporaries have been so generally favourable to the merits ofthe work . O _ r / ord Herald . —This work , is published with a view to disabuse the world respecting the nature of Freemasonry , and to give the a-aft the means of communicating generally with each other . It is handsomely printed , and contains much interesting information , not forgetting amusing matter , whieh will afford great pleasure to all classes of readers , the uninitiated aswell as the initiated . It commences with a concise - ~ et well written history of Masonry which flourished in the earliest ages , and has continued improving until the present time . This history is followed by a tale called " The Mason" which the writer states is founded upon a
, fact , communicated at Cambridge , during the autumn of the last year , by a brother of distinguished character and literary reputation . We are sorry that we cannot at present find sufficient space for this story of real life , which proves the utility of the mystic brotherly association even amidst the horrors of warfare . The present number contains also a very curious account of a Trappist ' s Monastic Establishment in the neighbourhood of Amiens , and a very full programme ofthe grand Musical Jubilee of 1784 , a repetition of whieh will shortly take place . To Masons we most particularly recommend this periodical , as it contains what haslong been with them a desideratum , viz . Masonic Intelligence from all parts of the united
kingdom ; to render which the more complete , the co-operation of the Fraternity , and more especially of the Masters and Past Masters of all Lodges is earnestly solicited by the Editor . We look that our work shall rapidly grow , for it is planted by the river of Truth ; so that it shall be said of it , as ofthe cedar , " Thus was he fair in his greatness ; in the length of his branches ; FOR HIS ROOT was BY GREAT WATERS . "
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Freemason's' Quarterly Review.
the general conduction and execution of this inaugral number , alike creditable to the editor and publishers , and worthy of the interest it represents , and which bids fair to secure for it a large patronage and support . Gloucester Journal . —This publication supplies a want which has long been felt amongst the " Craft . " As an eligible medium of conveying masonic information it will be cordially received ; and we have no doubt , therefore , adequately and extensively supported . Nor is its interest entirely confined to the brotherhood , for it contains literary articles of a miscellaneous nature , suitable to the general reader . We cordially wish success to the undertaking . Noruni : h Me > . —The fitst number of a periodicalentitled The 3 ? Teeraason ' s Quarterly
cury , Review , has appeared , which proposes to combine general information upon passing events , with more particular attention to the subject of Masonry . The topics of which it treats will be found valuable to the brethren , who are invited ia an introductory address to support an undertaking which has for its object the advancement of the interests of the body , and the disabusing the world , upon a subject which , taking truth , knowledge , and charity for its basis , deserves respect rather than the prejudice it encounters . In the first number we may more particularly point out the articles headed on Freemasonry and Masonic Intelligence , and a tale called Thc Masonwhich is well imagined and elegantly written .
, Norfolk Clironicle—Among the advertising columns of our paper will be found the announcement of a new periodical , entitled " The Freemasons' Quarterly Review . " Of this publication we have been favoured with a copy of the first number , which came out at the commencement of the present month , aud willingly call the attention ofthe Masonic Craft in this city and county to its pages . Nor would we decline to say something more , as of ourselves , respecting it , — ¦ ... ¦ , * ' But , alas J
To their own bards must leave the mystic class . " " In vain" ( adds CRABBB , in his admirable poem of ( The Borough ); — ** In vain shall one , and not a gifted man Attempt to sing of this enlightened clan , I know no word , boast no directing sign . And not one token of the race is mine . " Alike disqualified with the poet , both for singing and for saying much on such a subject , we can only undertake to express our satisfaction that the opinions of our London
contemporaries have been so generally favourable to the merits ofthe work . O _ r / ord Herald . —This work , is published with a view to disabuse the world respecting the nature of Freemasonry , and to give the a-aft the means of communicating generally with each other . It is handsomely printed , and contains much interesting information , not forgetting amusing matter , whieh will afford great pleasure to all classes of readers , the uninitiated aswell as the initiated . It commences with a concise - ~ et well written history of Masonry which flourished in the earliest ages , and has continued improving until the present time . This history is followed by a tale called " The Mason" which the writer states is founded upon a
, fact , communicated at Cambridge , during the autumn of the last year , by a brother of distinguished character and literary reputation . We are sorry that we cannot at present find sufficient space for this story of real life , which proves the utility of the mystic brotherly association even amidst the horrors of warfare . The present number contains also a very curious account of a Trappist ' s Monastic Establishment in the neighbourhood of Amiens , and a very full programme ofthe grand Musical Jubilee of 1784 , a repetition of whieh will shortly take place . To Masons we most particularly recommend this periodical , as it contains what haslong been with them a desideratum , viz . Masonic Intelligence from all parts of the united
kingdom ; to render which the more complete , the co-operation of the Fraternity , and more especially of the Masters and Past Masters of all Lodges is earnestly solicited by the Editor . We look that our work shall rapidly grow , for it is planted by the river of Truth ; so that it shall be said of it , as ofthe cedar , " Thus was he fair in his greatness ; in the length of his branches ; FOR HIS ROOT was BY GREAT WATERS . "