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Chit Chat.
FREEMASONRY depends on the unanimity ancl integrity of its members —the inflexibility of their charitable pursuits—ancl the immutability of the principles upon which the society is established . The favourite symbol for expressing this social condition has always been , ancl still remains , "the forty-seventh proposition of the first book of Euclid , which proves that the square subtending a ri ght angle is equal to the squares on the sides that form the right angle . "
THE PICTUBE GALLERY OF LORD ELLES - VEIIE TO BE OPENED TO THE PUBLIC . —The gallery of the new end of Bridgewater House , Green Park , occupies the whole of the north side of the house , and is carried out a few feet beyond the east wall of the ground floor . This extension is carried on stone landings ancl iron cantilevers , which come through at least twenty feet , and are there securely tied down . The height of the gallery is thirty-two feet , ancl the width is the same . The roof is formed
with iron principals , elliptical outside , with a horizontal tie about midway to form a flat ceiling inside , with covered sides , from which the gallery is lighted . The walls will be perfectly flat from the level of the dado up to the cornice , and in order that no hanging chandeliers may obstruct the view in any part , an arrangement will be made to illuminate the gallery at night which is very peculiar . A burner ( probably gas ) will be fixed outside each li ght in the cove , with a strong reflector , hy
which means , further , the heated asmosphere consequent on the number of lamps required to show the paintings properly , will be avoided . A telescope tube will admit of the standards being put out of sight from within the gallery during the day , and avoid the obstruction of sunlight , and a gallery is formed externally to give free access to them . — Builder . Lord Ellesmere , now the owner of the famous Chandos portrait of Shakespere , has placed it for a time at the disposal of the Council of the
Shakespere Society . Mr . Collier , the director of the society , who was the medium for transferring the relic from the Duke of Buckingham to the Earl of Ellesmere , has drawn up a brief memoir on the history and claims of the portrait , as an original likeness of our greatest dramatist .
A FAVOURABLE UKASE . —The Emperor of Russia has just issued a ukase in favour of the Polish Jews , by virtue of which they may now establish themselves wherever they like , and purchase land to erect houses , provided they are built of stone . This extension of right , how - ever , is only granted to those who are possessed of at least one thousand roubles , and who are occupied with mercantile and industrial pursuits .
THOSE waters are sweetest that are taken fresh from the spring . As that fruit is by far the most pleasant that you pluck from the tree itself , with your own hand ; that wine the most delicious , that you take from the very cask in which it was first stored ; so the Divine letters are enriched with I know not what native fragrance , breathe 1 know not what charm peculiarly original , if read in that language in which they wrote who partly derived it from the lips of the Eternal , and partly delivered them to us by the breath of the same inspiration . —Essay on the Claims ofthe Hebrew Language .
TAMUDIOAL ALLEGORIES . —THE SPIRIT OF SOLOMON . — A venerable old man toiled through the burden ancl heat of the day , in cultivating his field with his own hand , and in strewing , with his own hand , the promising seeds into the fruitful lap of the yielding earth . Suddenly there stood before him , under the shade of a huge linden-tree , a divine
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
Chit Chat.
FREEMASONRY depends on the unanimity ancl integrity of its members —the inflexibility of their charitable pursuits—ancl the immutability of the principles upon which the society is established . The favourite symbol for expressing this social condition has always been , ancl still remains , "the forty-seventh proposition of the first book of Euclid , which proves that the square subtending a ri ght angle is equal to the squares on the sides that form the right angle . "
THE PICTUBE GALLERY OF LORD ELLES - VEIIE TO BE OPENED TO THE PUBLIC . —The gallery of the new end of Bridgewater House , Green Park , occupies the whole of the north side of the house , and is carried out a few feet beyond the east wall of the ground floor . This extension is carried on stone landings ancl iron cantilevers , which come through at least twenty feet , and are there securely tied down . The height of the gallery is thirty-two feet , ancl the width is the same . The roof is formed
with iron principals , elliptical outside , with a horizontal tie about midway to form a flat ceiling inside , with covered sides , from which the gallery is lighted . The walls will be perfectly flat from the level of the dado up to the cornice , and in order that no hanging chandeliers may obstruct the view in any part , an arrangement will be made to illuminate the gallery at night which is very peculiar . A burner ( probably gas ) will be fixed outside each li ght in the cove , with a strong reflector , hy
which means , further , the heated asmosphere consequent on the number of lamps required to show the paintings properly , will be avoided . A telescope tube will admit of the standards being put out of sight from within the gallery during the day , and avoid the obstruction of sunlight , and a gallery is formed externally to give free access to them . — Builder . Lord Ellesmere , now the owner of the famous Chandos portrait of Shakespere , has placed it for a time at the disposal of the Council of the
Shakespere Society . Mr . Collier , the director of the society , who was the medium for transferring the relic from the Duke of Buckingham to the Earl of Ellesmere , has drawn up a brief memoir on the history and claims of the portrait , as an original likeness of our greatest dramatist .
A FAVOURABLE UKASE . —The Emperor of Russia has just issued a ukase in favour of the Polish Jews , by virtue of which they may now establish themselves wherever they like , and purchase land to erect houses , provided they are built of stone . This extension of right , how - ever , is only granted to those who are possessed of at least one thousand roubles , and who are occupied with mercantile and industrial pursuits .
THOSE waters are sweetest that are taken fresh from the spring . As that fruit is by far the most pleasant that you pluck from the tree itself , with your own hand ; that wine the most delicious , that you take from the very cask in which it was first stored ; so the Divine letters are enriched with I know not what native fragrance , breathe 1 know not what charm peculiarly original , if read in that language in which they wrote who partly derived it from the lips of the Eternal , and partly delivered them to us by the breath of the same inspiration . —Essay on the Claims ofthe Hebrew Language .
TAMUDIOAL ALLEGORIES . —THE SPIRIT OF SOLOMON . — A venerable old man toiled through the burden ancl heat of the day , in cultivating his field with his own hand , and in strewing , with his own hand , the promising seeds into the fruitful lap of the yielding earth . Suddenly there stood before him , under the shade of a huge linden-tree , a divine