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To The Editor.
I trace it to the Greek verb uv . ovu to hear or listen to , from which it is but puree detorta , and we have high authority for so importing words from one language to another . " Et nova fictaque nuper habebunt verba fidem , si Grreco fonte cadunt parce detorta . " Horace's Art af P / Wr . v . If you think this suggestion may interest any of our learned brethren , you will give it a place in the next Quarterly . Yours , fraternally , R . L . W . M .
TO THE EDITOR . SIR , —In a report published in your last Number , giving an account of the Excursion to Chatham , on behalf of the Boys' Masonic Institution , I perceive that one of the toasts professedly given by Brother Dr . Crucefix is , " The health of Brother Barnes , Hon . Secretary of the Institution . " Now this is not only an error , but one calculated , which-I am sure cannot be meant , to wound the feelings of the
gentleman , who , for a space of nine years , has performed the onerous duties of secretary to his own credit and to the advantage of the institution , viz . Mr . Augustus U . Thiselton . The fact is simply this , that Brother Barnes is Honorary Secretary to the Committee for conducting the Excursion , and is also one of the Schoolmasters employed by the Charity . The speech also given ( as reported ) by Brother Barnes , accords with the error , and consequently it is necessary that the proper correction should be made . . TTTSTTOF .
[ We like to correspond with " Justice , " and to deal out even handed justice;—thus , it is , the report was taken from a morning paper , and if our correspondent will only read " Excursion" instead of " Institution , " in the report alluded to , the whole affair is clear . Broth er Barnes , however , one of the most respectable as he is also one of the most zealous Freemasons , acknowledged the compliment ill fitting terms , as " Honorary Secretary to the More Committee . " The reporter did not observe the distinction , and hence the error in a report otherwise particularly correct ED . j
MR . EDITOR . SIR , —In one of the pages of your last Review , under the head of " Masonic Chit-Chat , " a wish is expressed of ascertaining , if possible , if there are any traces of those remarkable , and not yet generally known marks , which , in former times , the German builders were accustomed to put as a sort of stamps , upon those stones which they had cut or hewn for public buildings , especially for churches of the Gothic style . I have
been led to believe that such marks are to be found in the Church of St . Mary ' s , in the town of Shrewsbury . Hulberts Phillips' History of Shrewsbury says , that this church was founded by King Edgar ; but in what year is not known ; a note thereto supposes the foundation preceded the reign of Edgar .
About eight years back the tower ana south side ot this ancient ( jotinc structure underwent a thorough repair ; the circular arches which divided the side aisles from the transepts , and which for very many years had been disfigured by a superabundant application of mortar , from the hands of some tasteless plasterer , have been scraped and cleaned so as to exhibit the fine Norman arches in nearly their original beauty , and , adds the Editor of the Salopian Journal , " it may , perhaps , be worthy of remark , as well as interesting to some antiquarian and Masonic readers to be informed , that in clearing the plaster from the arches above noticed , the distinguishing marks of several of the operative masons , who were
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
To The Editor.
I trace it to the Greek verb uv . ovu to hear or listen to , from which it is but puree detorta , and we have high authority for so importing words from one language to another . " Et nova fictaque nuper habebunt verba fidem , si Grreco fonte cadunt parce detorta . " Horace's Art af P / Wr . v . If you think this suggestion may interest any of our learned brethren , you will give it a place in the next Quarterly . Yours , fraternally , R . L . W . M .
TO THE EDITOR . SIR , —In a report published in your last Number , giving an account of the Excursion to Chatham , on behalf of the Boys' Masonic Institution , I perceive that one of the toasts professedly given by Brother Dr . Crucefix is , " The health of Brother Barnes , Hon . Secretary of the Institution . " Now this is not only an error , but one calculated , which-I am sure cannot be meant , to wound the feelings of the
gentleman , who , for a space of nine years , has performed the onerous duties of secretary to his own credit and to the advantage of the institution , viz . Mr . Augustus U . Thiselton . The fact is simply this , that Brother Barnes is Honorary Secretary to the Committee for conducting the Excursion , and is also one of the Schoolmasters employed by the Charity . The speech also given ( as reported ) by Brother Barnes , accords with the error , and consequently it is necessary that the proper correction should be made . . TTTSTTOF .
[ We like to correspond with " Justice , " and to deal out even handed justice;—thus , it is , the report was taken from a morning paper , and if our correspondent will only read " Excursion" instead of " Institution , " in the report alluded to , the whole affair is clear . Broth er Barnes , however , one of the most respectable as he is also one of the most zealous Freemasons , acknowledged the compliment ill fitting terms , as " Honorary Secretary to the More Committee . " The reporter did not observe the distinction , and hence the error in a report otherwise particularly correct ED . j
MR . EDITOR . SIR , —In one of the pages of your last Review , under the head of " Masonic Chit-Chat , " a wish is expressed of ascertaining , if possible , if there are any traces of those remarkable , and not yet generally known marks , which , in former times , the German builders were accustomed to put as a sort of stamps , upon those stones which they had cut or hewn for public buildings , especially for churches of the Gothic style . I have
been led to believe that such marks are to be found in the Church of St . Mary ' s , in the town of Shrewsbury . Hulberts Phillips' History of Shrewsbury says , that this church was founded by King Edgar ; but in what year is not known ; a note thereto supposes the foundation preceded the reign of Edgar .
About eight years back the tower ana south side ot this ancient ( jotinc structure underwent a thorough repair ; the circular arches which divided the side aisles from the transepts , and which for very many years had been disfigured by a superabundant application of mortar , from the hands of some tasteless plasterer , have been scraped and cleaned so as to exhibit the fine Norman arches in nearly their original beauty , and , adds the Editor of the Salopian Journal , " it may , perhaps , be worthy of remark , as well as interesting to some antiquarian and Masonic readers to be informed , that in clearing the plaster from the arches above noticed , the distinguishing marks of several of the operative masons , who were