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The History Of Freemasonry,

THE HISTORY OF FREEMASONRY ,

FROM ITS ORIGIN TO THE PRESENT DAY . Drawn from the best sources and the most recent investigations . BY J . G . FINDEL , Second Edition , Revised , and Preface written by Bro . D . MURRAY LYON .

One vol ., 800 pages 8 vo ., with an Index . Cloth gilt . Price , 10 s . Od . " This book is a strictly historical one , from which all is excluded that is not based upon ascertained or probable ( act . "—Builder . " Of its value to Freemasons , as a detailed history of their Brotherhood , it is not possible to speak too highly . "—

Public Opinion . " The author seems to have fairly exhausted the sub-! ect . "—The Athenaeum . " The edition we are now considering is a second English edition , which hatl the great advantage of Bro . D . M . Lyon ' s able superintendence and editorship in its English dress . There can be no doubt but , that so far , Bro .

Findel ' s work is the most complete work on Freemasonry which has yet appeared , and that he deserves the greatest credit for his careful and accurate treatment of all evidence on the subject , and for his honest desire after truth . Bro . Findel gives up in the view he has so clearly and consistently put forth our early Masonic history , the older theory of the Roman Colleges , & c , and limits the origin

of Freemasonry to about the twelfth century , and as then arising from the operative Masons , and specially the " Steinmcitzen" and " Bauhutten" of Germany . Bro . Findel gives us a good deal of evidence on this head , and one thing is clear f . om his work , that thc German Freemasons were , at a very early period , organized into lodges with a Master over them , and with outward regulations and

inner ceremonies peculiar to the Craft . Bro . Findel rejects all the views which have been from time to time put forward of a Templar or a Rosicrucian origin . Whether or no Bro , Findel ' s theory of the date of the rise of Freemasonry be correct , matters very little -. we do not ourselves profess to accept it ; but this wecan fairly say of Bro Findel's work , it is marked from first to last hy the most remarkable

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A Masonic Musical Service.

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Freemasonry And Archæology.

FREEMASONRY AND ARCH ? OLOGY .

It is very remarkable what progress has iecently been made by careful students ia Masonic Archaeology . It may be that , to the world generally , to those outside Freemasonry ,

the result may appear small so far , and the advance inappreciable , but to those , who , like our Bro . W . J . Hughan , and others , have really studied the question , it is , and must be , a matter

of some congratulation , that , so much attention is now paid amongst us to Masonic investigation and archaeological inquiry . Time was , and some of us can even remember it , when all such

studies were questioned , and even somewhat discouraged . Freemasonry has , like every other body of men , had its " dry as dusts , '' and its " obstructives , " worthy men , with their own

amount of utility and value , no , doubt , but sadly disheartening to the earnest student , a great " incubus " on the honest searcher after truth . We even now have those lingering amongst us ,

who seeem to doubt , and gravely shake their heads at , what they call the iconoclastic proceedings of Bro . Hughan , D . M . Lyon , Woodford , & Co . " Quieta non movere" is their

motto , and a very good motto it is , when judiciously applied , but most out of place when used to discourage the earnest labours and persevering researches of modern Masonic Archoeol ogists .

All such worthy brethren , for they are both worthy and kindly , true men , and earnest Masons , despite their little idiosyncracies , all such , we say , should remember that our Masonic history ,

so far , owing to its great basis of oral tradition , has been marked by what is always an accompaniment of oral tradition , owing to human

imperfection and our finite powers , namely , uncertainty and unreliability . " Oral traditions , " said a great archjeologist , " are always liable to