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Now ready , i 2 mo ., 208 pages , handsomely bound in cloth price 2 S . 6 d ., post free 2 s . Sd . THE ISRAELITES FOUND IN THE ANGLO-SAXONS . The Ten Tribes supposed to have been lott traced from the land of their captivity to their occupation of the Isles ofthe Sea . With an exhibition of those traits of character and national characteristics assigned to Israel in the Books of the 1 lebrew Prophets , by Bro . WM . CARPENTER , Author of " Scientia Biblica , " "Scripture Natural History , " " Guiiieto tlie Reading of the Bible , " " Lectures on Biblical Criticism and Interpretation , " " A Popular Introduction to the Bible , " " The Biblical Companion , " " Critiea Biblica , " " Calendarium Palestine , " "An Introduction to tbe Reading and Study of the English Bible , " and Editor of the fifth large edition of " Calmet's Dictionary of the Bible , " and of the abridgement of the same , etc ., etc ., etc . LONDON : GEORGE KENNING , 198 , Fleet-street , E . C .

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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 tlie 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 , ios . 6 ( 1 . " This btu k is a strictly historical one , from which all is excluded that is not based upon ascertained or probable iact . "—Bnililir . "Of its \ alue to Freemasons , as a detailed history of their Brotherhood , it is not possible to speak too hig hly . "—

Pu ' . lic Op : HUM . "The author seems to have fairly exhausted the subject . "— The Athenaeum . " Tlie edition we are now considering is a second English edition , which had 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 .

Finders work is the most complete work on Freemasonry which has yet appeared , and that he deserves the greatest credit fur 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 tho : } : ; f the Roman Colleges , & c , and limits the origin

uf iaemasonry to about the twelfth century , and as then aiising from the operative Masons , and specially the " Sicinmeitzen" and " Bauhutten" of Germany . Bro . Findel gives us a good deal of evidence on this head , and one thing is clear from his work , that the 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 ihe 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 wc can fairly say of Bro Findel ' s work , it is marked from first to last by the most remarkable

tokenof industry , ability , and care , of patient research , and of skilful criticism . We know of no work which so clearly sets before us our amount of knowledge up to the present time on the great question of Masonic Archaeology , and there can be little doubt that what Preston ' s woi k is to English Freemasonry , Findel ' s work is to cosmopolitan F ' reemasonry . Indeed no student in Masonry can now dispense with it , and it

is a perfect storehouse both of Masonic evidence and Masonic illustrations . We earnestly recommend all the lodges in this country to obtain a copy for the lodge library before the work is bought up for America ; and we believe that no Mason will iise from the perusal of its pages without a higher idea both of the histoiic . il truth and intrinsic value of Freemasonry , and of fraternal regard and recognition to

the latest and not the least well-informed or effective of our Masonic historians . The present century has produced no such equal , in authority and usefulness , to the great work of our Bro . Findel , and we wish him and it , in all ol fraternal sympathy and kindly intent , many earnest

readers , and more grateful students . "—The Masonic Magazine . "This volume is the history of Masonry par excellence Every interested person may regard it , therefore , as the present text-book on the subject . "—Manchester Guardian London : GEORGE KENNING , 19 S , Fleet Street .

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TheFreemason ^ SATURDAY , APRIL 4 , 1874 .

West Lancashire Masonic Educational Institution.

WEST LANCASHIRE MASONIC EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTION .

There appeared in our last impression a very intcresting account of the " Cheshire Masonic Educational Institution , " by which it appears that nineteen children were being educated in

that province , and we have been since favoured with the report of the West Lancashire Masonic Educational Institution , to which we think well to call attention to-day .

As a " succursale , as the French would say , of our greater system , it deserves not only respectful mention , but consideration . For the report is a very creditable one to West

Lancashire , and places in a most favourable light the educational zeal ofthe West Lancashire brethren , and their friendly sympathy for the orphans of their deceased brethren .

The Institution was founded in 1850 , and is therefore fourteen years old . During the last year forty-five children enjoyed its benefits , and the sum of X 341 13 . 3 d . was

paid for their education and advancement in life . The "financial statement , " says the report , and we fully agree , " is one which cannot fail to be satisfactory . " " At the close ofthe year 1872 , the

total funds of the charity amounted to £ 9779 4 - jd ., whilst the present report shows the investments in Dock Bonds , and in

Mortgages , together with the cash in bank , and in the Treasurer ' s hands , amounted to /" I 0 . 845 , 4 s - 9 d - "

Nothing can be apparently better managed or on a more satisfactory basis , than this West Lancashire Institution , the more so as the annual subscriptions and donations amount to

£ 700 , in round numbers , annually , far exceeding the present cost of education . We have been deeply interested with this fresh proof ( if proof were needed ) of Provincial zeal

and Masonic good , feeling , and we congratulate the brethren of West Lancashire on the success of their useful and valuable Provincial Institution . Neither they , nor the Cheshire

brethren , claim for their respective associations more than this , that they are , as far as they go , very useful and helpful to the recipients of their benefits , as well for their present education , as for