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Review Of Literature, &C.
revival of the Orders of Knighthood" in Hartford , Conn ., appears to be promising . The " English Mission" is strongly recommended , and it is suggested that it shall have ample powers . " Triennial Meetings of the General Grand Chapter , and General Grand Encampment of the United States , " were held at Newhaven on the 10 th of September ; many addresses were delivered , the most interesting by Sir Knt . Flagg , as " the production of a well-disciplined and well-informed mind : " after
stating the general usefulness of the Order , the orator spoke of its having disarmed the foe , turned aside the scalping knife , and stayed the murderous hand of the pirate . " An Oration , " by the Rev . E . V . Levert , is worthy the study of Dr . Oliver , which are sufficient to mark our estimation of its value . " The Correspondence" proves how surely the Magazine is progressing . Masonic intelligence is given from the Grand Lodges of Indiana , Kentucky , Mississipi , Maryland , Connecticut , and New Hampshire .
Freemasons' Calendar and Pocket Book for 1845 . R . Spencer , London . _ We will venture to say that of all pocket-books assuming to he essential to a particular community , this is the most specious . We had intended to have issued a prospectus of a Masonic Calendar for 1846 , and thereby to have given the Fraternity an opportunity of judging whether our editorial powers miht not have proved worthto rival
g y those that be ; but finding that Bro . Richard Spencer has been selected to arrange and print the present calendar , we deferred our intention ; and although in expressing some disappointment in the new arrangement , we refer more to the Board Editorial of General Purposes , by whom he has been cramped , than to our Bibliopolist himself , who has endeavoured to make amends by many useful additions ; thus he has given us an almanack , cash account , stamp list , & c . ; but we lose the
ancient charges to the master , and we ought to have in addition the original " 'Prentice" song , by Matthew Birkenhead , and the charge itself . In the list of Grand Officers there is a curious mode of style ; thus all above the Grand Secretary are called Esquire—he rejoices in that of Mister ' s after him Peter Thomson re-commences the squirearchy , the names of W . Rule and T . Barton again resume the mistershi the list of representatives then conclude the listunder the class
p ; , Esquire . " , All this is . very , silly . The table of Masonic precedence should be regularly observed , not the popular or social distinction ;—why discard the designation " BROTHER . " However , w ' e'ribiv / entertain some hope of amendment even in the Pocket Book .
Lutomia . No ! 8 . June 1814 . J . J . Weber , Leipsic . We should perhaps have allowed this number of the Latomia to pass without comment , had not forty-six pages been devoted to a short history of Freemasonry in England , with a list ( copied from the Calendar ) of all the Lodges and Chapters under the constitution of England . Such information must be so important to the Masons of Germany visiting us , that we are induced to alter our original intention of being silent . We have before alluded to the meagreness of the Calendar , as published b y authority of our Grand Lodge / and would again call the attention of the proper persons to the opportunity that now presents itself of
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
Review Of Literature, &C.
revival of the Orders of Knighthood" in Hartford , Conn ., appears to be promising . The " English Mission" is strongly recommended , and it is suggested that it shall have ample powers . " Triennial Meetings of the General Grand Chapter , and General Grand Encampment of the United States , " were held at Newhaven on the 10 th of September ; many addresses were delivered , the most interesting by Sir Knt . Flagg , as " the production of a well-disciplined and well-informed mind : " after
stating the general usefulness of the Order , the orator spoke of its having disarmed the foe , turned aside the scalping knife , and stayed the murderous hand of the pirate . " An Oration , " by the Rev . E . V . Levert , is worthy the study of Dr . Oliver , which are sufficient to mark our estimation of its value . " The Correspondence" proves how surely the Magazine is progressing . Masonic intelligence is given from the Grand Lodges of Indiana , Kentucky , Mississipi , Maryland , Connecticut , and New Hampshire .
Freemasons' Calendar and Pocket Book for 1845 . R . Spencer , London . _ We will venture to say that of all pocket-books assuming to he essential to a particular community , this is the most specious . We had intended to have issued a prospectus of a Masonic Calendar for 1846 , and thereby to have given the Fraternity an opportunity of judging whether our editorial powers miht not have proved worthto rival
g y those that be ; but finding that Bro . Richard Spencer has been selected to arrange and print the present calendar , we deferred our intention ; and although in expressing some disappointment in the new arrangement , we refer more to the Board Editorial of General Purposes , by whom he has been cramped , than to our Bibliopolist himself , who has endeavoured to make amends by many useful additions ; thus he has given us an almanack , cash account , stamp list , & c . ; but we lose the
ancient charges to the master , and we ought to have in addition the original " 'Prentice" song , by Matthew Birkenhead , and the charge itself . In the list of Grand Officers there is a curious mode of style ; thus all above the Grand Secretary are called Esquire—he rejoices in that of Mister ' s after him Peter Thomson re-commences the squirearchy , the names of W . Rule and T . Barton again resume the mistershi the list of representatives then conclude the listunder the class
p ; , Esquire . " , All this is . very , silly . The table of Masonic precedence should be regularly observed , not the popular or social distinction ;—why discard the designation " BROTHER . " However , w ' e'ribiv / entertain some hope of amendment even in the Pocket Book .
Lutomia . No ! 8 . June 1814 . J . J . Weber , Leipsic . We should perhaps have allowed this number of the Latomia to pass without comment , had not forty-six pages been devoted to a short history of Freemasonry in England , with a list ( copied from the Calendar ) of all the Lodges and Chapters under the constitution of England . Such information must be so important to the Masons of Germany visiting us , that we are induced to alter our original intention of being silent . We have before alluded to the meagreness of the Calendar , as published b y authority of our Grand Lodge / and would again call the attention of the proper persons to the opportunity that now presents itself of