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Emulation Lodge of Improvement , FREEMASONS' HALL , LONDON , W . C . IMPORTANT NOTICE . The time for opening the Lodge is now 6 o ' clock , instead f 7 as hitherto . The Lodge meets every Friday evening throug hout the year , except during the months of July , August , and September , on Good Friday , and Christmas Kve or Christmas Day . five W . G . KENTISH , Secretary .

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A CAMBRIDGE GRADUATE ( P . M ., P . Z ., P . M . W . S . 18 ° , Professor of Latin and Zoology , " 'I'he College , " South Kensington ; Examiner 15 years Bexley Heath College ) has some time disengaged for Private or Visiting Tuition . Lectures on History and Natural Science . Foreigners taught English through the medium of French . —Address , F . D ., 62 , Lancaster-road , Notting-hill , W .

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JUST PUBLISHED . ANTHEM- "BEHOLD HOW GOOD AND JOYFUL " ( Dedicated to Right Hon . the Earl of Mount EDGCUMBE , Provincial Grand Master of Cornwall ) , Composed by Bro . C . E . J ULEFF , P . P . G . O . Cornwall , Organist and Choir Director of Bodmin Parish Church . PRICE <* . d . of the Composer . N . B . —This Anthem is already on several cathedral lists , andwill shortly be in a second edition .

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To Correspondents.

To Correspondents .

A WOULD-BE STEWARD . —We can only repeat our remarks in the issue of Feb . nth under notices to correspondents . The date will be announced at the earliest possible moment ; until then , patience must be exercised .

The following- communications were either received too late for publication or stand over for want of space : — Excelsior Royal Arch Chapter , No . 1042 . Huyshe Rose Croix Chapter . Consecration of the F . R . Sewell Lodge of Royal Ark Mariners , No . 213 . History of the Royal Masonic Institution for Girls ,

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SATURDAY , MARCH 3 , 1888 . < **»

Original Correspondence.

Original Correspondence .

[ We do not hold ourselves responsible for , or even approving of the opinions expressed by our correspondents , but we wish in aspirit of fair play to all to permit—within certain necessary limits—free discussion . ] OUR MASONIC CHARITIES .-A SUGGESTION . To the Editor ofthe "Freemason . " Dear Sir and Brother ,

lam afraid 13 ro . Vallentine has fallen into the error , which is very common among statisticians of a certain class , who are never so happy as when propounding a scheme for accomplishing a grand result by what is commonly known as the homoeopathic mode of treatment—that is , by foregoing regularly certain small periodical expenditures or hoarding up regularly certain globules of money in the shape of farthings or halfpence , or the cost of a glass of

ale or grog per diem . It is only 2 d . or 3 d . a day , they tell you , and at the end of so many years you will be able to buy up the National Debt , or build yourself a house , or buy yourself a carriage and pair , or achieve something else equally wonderful . Another kindly points out that if you rise half an hour earlier than your usual time every day you will , practically , live so many years longer ; and a third

shows how , if a parent puts away a farthing per day for his son from the day of his birth till he becomes 21 , and lends it out at interest , the son , when he attains to legal manhood , will be a person of almost infinite riches . All ( his is very wonderful on paper , but I have not heard of its being very successful in practice . I have never found that the early riser who died at So years of age was practically 85 ,

or that a man who occasionally denied himself a glass of ale or wine was ever able to buy himself a house with the savings . Bro . Vallentine proposes to increase the permanent income of our Charitable Institutions by means of an all-round contribution from our lodges of a guinea each per annum , and he very carefully suggests that in a Iodge of 50 members this will amount to only $ d . each a year , and

in one of 100 members to 2-J-d . each , this reads well , but the fivepences and two and-a-halfpences per member might be forthcoming for the first year , but they would soon fall off or be forgotten . What is necessary in order to raise a permanent income is some abiding law which shall fix the contribution at so much and remain in force , not a mere bye-law which may be unnoticed or rescinded at any moment . The "Ancients" established such a law when

they ordained that their lodges should contribute a certain sum for every new made Mason , the London lodges so much , and the country and foreign lodges so much , towards the support of their Institution for clothing and educating Freemasons' sons—now our Boys' School . The " Moderns " fought shy of adopting this plan , though some of their lodges did , ¦ and , after the Union , United Grand Lodge

adopted the "Ancient " law in this matter , and divided the proceeds of the tax equally between the two Schools . In 1838 , this was commuted into a fixed annual payment of £ 150 to each , and from then till now this amount has remained at precisely the same figure . As to Bro . Vallentitie ' s remarks with reference to my suggestion that Grand Lodge should increase its grant to

each School from £ 150 to £ 1000 a year , and my omission of the Benevolent Institution , had he read my letter carefully he would have seen the reason of this . Grand Lodge gives the Benevolent Institution £ 1600 a year— £ 800 to each Fund—but only £ 150 a year to each School . Its present grant to the R . M . B . I . has been increased from what it was originally , butthe Schools receive each £ 150 a year ,

just as they did 50 years ago . Had there been no commutation in 1838 , our Schools would have been receiving a larger permanent income from their Grand Lodge grant ; as it is , Grand Lodge is some hundreds of pounds sterling in pocket by the change made in 183 S , and while on the subject of improving the permanent incomes of our Charities ,

I thought I might as well offer this suggestion in the case of two of them . But even if my suggestion were acted upon , the Benevolent Institution would be receiving £ 1600 a year—which is little enough , as we all know—while the Schools would have only £ 1000 each—that is , from tho funds of Grand Lodge . —Fraternally yours , "O . "

THE BENEVOLENT FESTIVAL . To the Editor of the " Freemason . " Dear Sir and Brother , I hope that many like myself will be disposed to adopt the excellent suggestion of "P . Prov . S . G . W . " by sending a guinea to Bro . Terry for his list , and I should like further to suggest that the compliment to our worthy brother would be increased if , instead of taking votes for our donations , we agreed that the sums so contributed should

go as a donation as permanent Life-Governorship for the chair which be fills . I trust Bro . Terry may find old friends enough to make the lodge a Patron of the Institution . May I further add that although the Festival will be over before your next issue , there can be no objection to Bro . Terry's list being " enlarged" with this object . —Yours fraternally , 25 th February . P . A . G . D . C .

FOLGER'S HISTORY OF THE A . AND A . RITE . To the Editor ofthe "Freemason . " Dear Sir and Brother , I shall be obliged if you , or some of your numerous readers , can tell me whether there has been a more recent edition of Dr . R . B . Folger ' s " History of the Ancient and

Accepted Scottish Rite " than the one published about 1 S 63 . If so , where can it be obtained , Sic . ? I shall also be thankful for information as to the Ancient Templar Encampments at York , Bristol , Manchester , and Nottingham . Is it is possible to get a history of any of them ?—With fraternal wishes , yours faithfully !

BARRY CHARTRES . February 18 th . [ Our correspondent covers a good deal of ground in his enquiries , but we will do our best to answer his letter . There isa later edition published of Dr . Folger's "History of the Ancient and Accepted Rite" ( ive believe ) , by the Masonic Publishing Company , New York . Information

as to row Knight 'lemplary may be obtained from Bro . W . J . Hughan's " Masonic Sketches and Reprints , " 1871 —now out of print—but an American edition is published , and several pamphlets by Bro . T . B . Whytehead , who has made that subject his special study . The only account now to be had respecting Bristol Knight Templary , is to be

found in Bro . Hughan's " Origin of the linglish Rite of Freemasonry , " 1878 , and in reference to that Degree at Manchester , & c , the best work—we mi ght say the only one—is by Bro . John Yarker , eniitled "Scientific and Religious Mysteries , Gnosis , Secret Schools , Rosicrucianism , and Freemasonry , " 1872 . —ED . F . M . ~\

THE SILVER WEDDING . To the Editor of the "Freemason . " Dear Sir and Brother , I am sure it would be great satisfaction to the majority of Freemasons if some information would be given as to what proceedings have been taken in respect of thc presentation of the address and the gift , and of what the gift will consist of , for which Grand Lodge has granted £ 500 .