-
Articles/Ads
Article LITERARY NOTICES. ← Page 7 of 8 →
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
Literary Notices.
Upon the whole , the arguments are simple but profound . The evidences have not been distorted to serve this particular purpose ; but they appear to fit into each other , like the detached pieces of a dissected , map , antl produce so complete a whole , that no sophistry can avoid the conclusion to which the author has been led , or refuse to admit the force of the reasoning , or the obvious correctness of the demonstration .
Latomia . Weber . Leipsic . Our talented contemporary continues to illuminate the Masonic horizon . We have extracted much intelligence , which appears elsewhere . American Register . Hoffman . Albany , N . Y . The September number has reached us . It centains a well-written
paper on Masonic responsibility . —Report of the Grand Lodge of Indiana , in which the practice of conferring more than one degree at a sitting is justly reprobated . —The expulsion of the Rev . Dr . Muller , Grand Chaplain of the Grand Lodge of Columbia , for grossly immoral and unmasonic conduct , with other miscellaneous matter , and copious extracts from Masonic works .
. Stray Leaves from a Freemason ' s Note Book . By a Suffolk Rector . Spencer . London . This goodly work of promise is now fairly before the popular as well as the Masonic world , and to both it will be equally acceptable and interesting . As we have already observed , when commenting on detached sheets as they passed through the press , several of the articles have appeared as fugitive in Blackwood and other periodicals ; their
re-collection , with many other original articles , into a volume , will give the whole a permanent utility . To the popular reader the perusal will afford a pleasing reality of Masonic fact and circumstance not hitherto developed ; while the Masonic reader will find in its pages a new direction of thought , not the less delightful that he may share it with his wife and daughters , as . the most pleasing way to draw their attention to the precepts and principles : of the Order . To the ministers of religion we are
greatliny debted for our Masonic literature , and our reverend author has added thereto a volume of thrilling interest , beautiful simplicity , and pure sentiment . The "Anti-masonic Vicar" will , if he read the book , find reasons for conversion in every paper , but more especially in that wherein Bishop Griswold ' s character appears in its true " light . " All jury-men should learn by heart the Jury-man Mason ; and every Mason should thank the author for having given publicity to his ' Stray Leaves . " ; Fbr
ourselves we gratefully thank him , not more for many pleasant hours most delightfully passed , but for the important Masonic gleanings-we have made in our own note-book , to be hereafter , with his permission , transplanted to other pages now in embryo . .
Golden Remains of the Early Masonic Writers ., Edited by the Rev . Geo . Oliver , D . D . Spencer , London . ; ,-. --. v The fourth number of this serial has appeared , and contains—The Masonic Jewels illustrated by Moral Geometry—Anonymous ; arid on the Government of the Lodge , by John Whitmash , Esq . The notes , as usual , are copious and explanatory .
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
Literary Notices.
Upon the whole , the arguments are simple but profound . The evidences have not been distorted to serve this particular purpose ; but they appear to fit into each other , like the detached pieces of a dissected , map , antl produce so complete a whole , that no sophistry can avoid the conclusion to which the author has been led , or refuse to admit the force of the reasoning , or the obvious correctness of the demonstration .
Latomia . Weber . Leipsic . Our talented contemporary continues to illuminate the Masonic horizon . We have extracted much intelligence , which appears elsewhere . American Register . Hoffman . Albany , N . Y . The September number has reached us . It centains a well-written
paper on Masonic responsibility . —Report of the Grand Lodge of Indiana , in which the practice of conferring more than one degree at a sitting is justly reprobated . —The expulsion of the Rev . Dr . Muller , Grand Chaplain of the Grand Lodge of Columbia , for grossly immoral and unmasonic conduct , with other miscellaneous matter , and copious extracts from Masonic works .
. Stray Leaves from a Freemason ' s Note Book . By a Suffolk Rector . Spencer . London . This goodly work of promise is now fairly before the popular as well as the Masonic world , and to both it will be equally acceptable and interesting . As we have already observed , when commenting on detached sheets as they passed through the press , several of the articles have appeared as fugitive in Blackwood and other periodicals ; their
re-collection , with many other original articles , into a volume , will give the whole a permanent utility . To the popular reader the perusal will afford a pleasing reality of Masonic fact and circumstance not hitherto developed ; while the Masonic reader will find in its pages a new direction of thought , not the less delightful that he may share it with his wife and daughters , as . the most pleasing way to draw their attention to the precepts and principles : of the Order . To the ministers of religion we are
greatliny debted for our Masonic literature , and our reverend author has added thereto a volume of thrilling interest , beautiful simplicity , and pure sentiment . The "Anti-masonic Vicar" will , if he read the book , find reasons for conversion in every paper , but more especially in that wherein Bishop Griswold ' s character appears in its true " light . " All jury-men should learn by heart the Jury-man Mason ; and every Mason should thank the author for having given publicity to his ' Stray Leaves . " ; Fbr
ourselves we gratefully thank him , not more for many pleasant hours most delightfully passed , but for the important Masonic gleanings-we have made in our own note-book , to be hereafter , with his permission , transplanted to other pages now in embryo . .
Golden Remains of the Early Masonic Writers ., Edited by the Rev . Geo . Oliver , D . D . Spencer , London . ; ,-. --. v The fourth number of this serial has appeared , and contains—The Masonic Jewels illustrated by Moral Geometry—Anonymous ; arid on the Government of the Lodge , by John Whitmash , Esq . The notes , as usual , are copious and explanatory .