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Review Of Literature, The Drama, &C.
own interests , the support they then received from the world at large , and anon , the difficulties they encountered from vulgar prejudices . The crafty and politic Elizabeth is prominently brought into view—the Master-Mason Wren is introduced as a leading and important character , and the history concludes 1775 , with a promise to resume its details the following year . A compendious list of Past Grand Masters and all subordinate Grand
Officers follows , including all Grand Stewards—the existing Grand Lodge—Provincial Grand Masters—and to this is appended the general rota of town and country Lodges under the Constitution . The statistics of Masonry in Germany and Holland are largely dwelt upon ; and it is our intention , in proof of our observation that some serious attention was in former days paid to the Calendar , to quote hereafter these two articles from its records .
The Grand Lodge of Scotland is inserted , with Edinburgh Lodges , & c , and their days of meeting—and a table of remarkable occurrences is appended . As the Book of Constitutions was probably not in general use , the Calendar further contained a great mass of useful references , as to the laws and regulations of charity , & c , and it appears that all new regulations are particularly noted , always with an intimation that the next Calendar shall contain further remarks . A few toasts and songs
are introduced , which in the moment of conviviality could be referred to with advantage . And now for 1837 . The calendar department is a decided improvement upon the old diary ; each division explains the daily meetings of the Craft , both in Lodges and Communities—a page is devoted to the
Masonic charities for girls and boys—as also to the Grand Lodge and Grand Chapter , omitting however the Grand Stewards , who being delegates from eighteen various Lodges , should , we consider , be included , if only from respect to their several constituencies—the Provincial Grand Masters , and some remarkable occurrences in Masonry absorb about two more pages—and then follows a very well arranged table of all the Lodges under the English Constitution—and at length we find
the meetings of London Chapters are briefl y noticed . And here ends the Masonic intelligence of the year . Compared with 1 S 37 , our venerable ancestor was an album of reference , and among other Calendars of the day held an honourable competition . At the present time , when annuals are teeming from the press , when society demands the necessity of keeping pace with the literature of the agethe Mason ' s Calendarinstead of elongating the telescopehas shut
, , , it up , and the reader can find little to interest him . Could not the records of Grand Lodge have furnished materials for the occurrences of the year ? Where are the Boards of General Purposes and Financethe Stewards of the Grand Master ' s birth-day—the Boys and Girls and Grand Festival ? and even the announcement of those who are anxious to uphold the as yet " unrecognised Asylum" would not prove an unworthy subjectnor uninteresting to the Masonic reader . The long
, protracted indisposition and happy restoration of his lloyal Highness the Grand Master—the initiation of the Moolve Ismael Khan and the Persian princes , with many of the nobility—provincial matters of important interest—and , lastly , the sister Grand Lodges of Scotland and Ireland , afford ample scope for courteous and pleasing comment . We feel satisfied that the task , if it devolve upon one individual , may be seriously inconvenient , and also that a weighty responsibility will be
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Review Of Literature, The Drama, &C.
own interests , the support they then received from the world at large , and anon , the difficulties they encountered from vulgar prejudices . The crafty and politic Elizabeth is prominently brought into view—the Master-Mason Wren is introduced as a leading and important character , and the history concludes 1775 , with a promise to resume its details the following year . A compendious list of Past Grand Masters and all subordinate Grand
Officers follows , including all Grand Stewards—the existing Grand Lodge—Provincial Grand Masters—and to this is appended the general rota of town and country Lodges under the Constitution . The statistics of Masonry in Germany and Holland are largely dwelt upon ; and it is our intention , in proof of our observation that some serious attention was in former days paid to the Calendar , to quote hereafter these two articles from its records .
The Grand Lodge of Scotland is inserted , with Edinburgh Lodges , & c , and their days of meeting—and a table of remarkable occurrences is appended . As the Book of Constitutions was probably not in general use , the Calendar further contained a great mass of useful references , as to the laws and regulations of charity , & c , and it appears that all new regulations are particularly noted , always with an intimation that the next Calendar shall contain further remarks . A few toasts and songs
are introduced , which in the moment of conviviality could be referred to with advantage . And now for 1837 . The calendar department is a decided improvement upon the old diary ; each division explains the daily meetings of the Craft , both in Lodges and Communities—a page is devoted to the
Masonic charities for girls and boys—as also to the Grand Lodge and Grand Chapter , omitting however the Grand Stewards , who being delegates from eighteen various Lodges , should , we consider , be included , if only from respect to their several constituencies—the Provincial Grand Masters , and some remarkable occurrences in Masonry absorb about two more pages—and then follows a very well arranged table of all the Lodges under the English Constitution—and at length we find
the meetings of London Chapters are briefl y noticed . And here ends the Masonic intelligence of the year . Compared with 1 S 37 , our venerable ancestor was an album of reference , and among other Calendars of the day held an honourable competition . At the present time , when annuals are teeming from the press , when society demands the necessity of keeping pace with the literature of the agethe Mason ' s Calendarinstead of elongating the telescopehas shut
, , , it up , and the reader can find little to interest him . Could not the records of Grand Lodge have furnished materials for the occurrences of the year ? Where are the Boards of General Purposes and Financethe Stewards of the Grand Master ' s birth-day—the Boys and Girls and Grand Festival ? and even the announcement of those who are anxious to uphold the as yet " unrecognised Asylum" would not prove an unworthy subjectnor uninteresting to the Masonic reader . The long
, protracted indisposition and happy restoration of his lloyal Highness the Grand Master—the initiation of the Moolve Ismael Khan and the Persian princes , with many of the nobility—provincial matters of important interest—and , lastly , the sister Grand Lodges of Scotland and Ireland , afford ample scope for courteous and pleasing comment . We feel satisfied that the task , if it devolve upon one individual , may be seriously inconvenient , and also that a weighty responsibility will be