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Now Ready . INDEX to Vol . VI . of "THE FREEMASON . " May be had at the Publishing Office , igS , Fleetstreet .

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Now ready , with Index and Preface , in Twelve Imperial Folio Parts , 5 s . each , or bound in one handsome volume , £ 3 . THE FREEMASONS' LIBER MUSICUS , Dedicated by express permission to H . R . H . THE PRINCE OF WALES , Past Giand Master of England and Wales . Edited by Dn . WILLIAM SPAIIK , P . P . G . O ., W . Y . —298 . This Work contains 215 pp . and 118 Musical Compositions suitable for all the Ceremonies of the Masonic Order ; First , Second , and Third Degrees ; Consecration and Dedication of I tails and Lotlges ; Programmes , Toasts , Songs , Trios , Choruses , & c , for Banqutts and other Festive Gatherings ; Laying Foundation or Corner Stones ; Installation ; Mark Masonry ; Royal Arch ; Masonic Funerals ; Voluntaries ; Marches , & c , & c . Notice from the Evening Mail . u OUT Masonic readers arc no strangers to the name of Bro . William Spark , the talented musician and Organist of tlie Town Hall , Leeds , in this really great work , now completed , Dr . Spark , has shown his great tact and judgmen hy completing and compiling for the Masonic hrcthrcn a complete lihrary of musical , compositions of the choicest English and foreign works , ancient , traditional , modern , vocal , and instrumental , hy the host composers . It comprises Masouie anthems , installation odes , dedication music , responses , opening , closing , and intermediate music for all degrees . Thanksgivings , funeral odes , marches , songs , ducts , bammct music , programmes , voluntaries , and general musical directions , arranged for voices and organ , pianoforte , or harmonium . " The Freemasons' Liher Musicus " is issued with the concurrence of many influential Masonic Lodges , anil under the distinguished patronage and support of the Most Worshipful the Grand Masters of England , Wales , Scotland , and Ireland . It forms a complete lihrary of the choicest and rarest Masonic music , in a word , it is indispensable to all Masonic lodges . The worthy brother editor , moreover , has had the valnahle co-operation and assistance of the most distinguished and experienced composers and organists , members of the Craft . It is hrought out in the highest style of art , is printed from large engraved music plates , and forms a very handsome folio volume of " nearly two hundred ami twenty pages ! " It deserves the patronage of every Masonic Lodge , hoth at home andahroad . and for its met its aloiie it ought to be zealously prized hy every brother . As a present to a lodge , nothing could " he more useful , valnahle , and appropriate . HANDSOME CLOTH COVEKS , with gilt lines , and lettered , for Binding ( similar to those used for the Graphic and Illustrated News ) , price 5 s . each . LONDON : GEORGE KENNING , 198 , Fleet-street .

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Second Edition , Now Heady , i / G . A MASONIC MUSICAL SERVICE . In the key of C . for A ., 'J ' ., T ., B . Opening and Closing Odes . Craft Ceremonies . Koyal Arch Ceremony . Consecration Ceremony . Grace before and after Meat . COMPOSED BV DR .. ] . C . BAKER , NO . 241 . LONDON . —Geo . Kenning , 198 , Fleet-street ; and 1 , 2 , and 3 , Little Britain . ,, R . Spencer , 26 , Great Queen-street . LIVERPOOL . —Geo . Kenning , 2 , Monument-place . MANCHESTER . —E . Henry & Co ., 59 , Deansgate . DUBLIN . —C . Hedgelong , 26 , Grafton-street GLASGOW . —Geo . Kenning , 145 , Argyle-strect .

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THE MARK MASONS' SONG . "COME , BRETHREN , OF THE MYSTIC TIE . " Dedicated by permission to the Right Hon . the Earl Percy , M . I' ., 30 " , Right Worshipful Provincial Grand Master of Freemasons for Northumberland , Moit Worshi pful Grand Mark Master Mason of England . Words by Bro . T . Burdett Yeoman , Original Mark Lodge No . 1 ., composed by Bro . Henry Parker , Original Mark LodgeNo . 1 . Office , 198 , Fleet-street .

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MADAME TUSSAUD'S EXHIBITION BAKER STREET . Now added , PORTRAIT MODELS of the CZAR OF RUSSIA , SIR GARNET WOLSELEY , the Three Judges in the Tichborne Trial , Cockbutn , , Mellor , and Lush ; the Shah of Persia , Marshal MacMahon , M . Thiers , and the late Mr . Charles Dickens . Admission is . Children under ten , Cd . Extra Rooms , 6 d . Open from ten a . m . to ten p . m .

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Now ready , t 2 mo ., 20 S pages , handsomely bound in cloth price 2 S- 6 d ., post free 2 S . 8 d . THE ISRAELITES FOUND IN THE ANGLO-SAXONS . The Ten Tribes supposed to have been lotl traced from jhc land of their captivity to their occupation of the Isles of the 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 Biblicu , " " Scripture Natural History , " " Guide to the Reading or the Bible , " " Lectures on Biblical Criticism ami Interpretation , " "A Popular Introduction to the Bible , " " The Biblical Companion , " " Critiea Biblica , " " Calendarium Palestina ; , " " An Introduction to the Reading and Stndy . of the English Bible , " and Editor of the fifth huge edition of " Calmct ' 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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SECOND EDITION . —NOW HEADY . Price One Shilling , Post-free , Revised and Enlarged . Freemasonry in Relation to Civil Authority and the Family Circle , Bv BRO . CHALMERS I . PATON . ( Past Master , No . 393 , England . ) npHIS work is a perfect handbook of the - ^ principles of Freemasonry , founded on the Ancient Charges and Symbols , and will be found to be eminently practical and useful in the vindication and support of the Order . Office , 198 , Fleet-street .

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THE HISTORY OF FREEMASONRY , FROM ITS ORIGIN TO THE PRESENT DAY . Diawn 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 , ios . Od . " This book is a strictly historical one , from which all is excluded that is not based upon ascertained or probable fact . "—Builder . " Of its value to Freemasons , as a detailed history of their Brotherhood , it is not possible to speak too hi g hly . "Public Opinion . " The author seems to have fairly exhausted the sublet . " —77 ie Athenaeum . " The edition we are now consitlering is a second English edition , which had the great advantage of Bro . D . M . Lyon ' s able superintendence and editorshi p 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 011 the subject , and for his honest desire after truth . Bro . Findel gives up in the view he has so clearly and consistently put foith our early Masonic history , the older theory ;> f 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 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 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 by the most remarkable tokenof industry , ability , and care , of patient research , anp 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 Archa'ology , and there can be little doubt that what Preston's work is to English Freemasonry , Findel's work is to cosmopolitan Freemasonry . 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 tise from the perusal of its pages without a higher idea both of the historical 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 11 m . Findel , and we wish him and it , in all of fraternal sympathy and kindly intent , many earnest readers , and more grateful students . "—The Masonic Magazine . " This volume is the history of Masonry pur excellence Every interested person may regard it , therefore , as the present text-book on the subject . "—Manchester Guardian London : GKOR . GK KENNING , 19 S , Fleet Street .

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THE LIFE OF CONSTANTINE . Written in Greek , by EUSEUIUS PAMPILUS , ( Bishop of Caisarea in Palestine ) . Done into English from that edition , set forth b y VAI . ESIUS , and printed in Paris in the year 1659 . Pieface b y Bros . H . Wentworth Little , Treas . Gen . and the Rev . A . F . A . Woodford , Past Grand Chaplain . With Engravings of Constantine ; the Duke of Sussex P . G . Sov . ; Lord Hancliffe , P . G . Sov . ; Earl Beetive , M . P . P . G . Sov . ; Sir F ' rederick Martin Williams , Bart . ' M . P . M . I . G . Sov ., & c , & e . . London ; GEORGE KENNING , 198 , Fleel-strcet ,

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The Freemason , SATURDAY ; , J 4 TH , 1874 .

The Royal Masonic Benevolent Institution.

THE ROYAL MASONIC BENEVOLENT INSTITUTION .

We have received at last the official report of the Royal Masonic Benevolent Institution , which contains the list of the successful candidates at the recent election , which list , as we

stated in a previous impression , in which it appeared , we took originally from a paid advertisement in a non-Masonic paper . We are especially struck , however , as we think our readers will be

when they read it , with one of the resolutions passed at the general meeting of the Institution , May 1 , 5 th , our gallant and esteemed Bro . Major

Creaton being in the chair . For there we read these , to us striking words , " resolved that the result of the ballot with the names of the

successful candidates be advertised in the Times , Telegraph , Advertiser , Standard , and Daily News , daily papers , and in the Era , Sunday paper . " So that as late as May 15 th , this very year of

light , the existence of The Freemason , our one Masonic paper , is utterly ignored , and , we who are Freemasons , are actually debarred from inserting an advertisement of our own Masonic

Institution , and of thus announcing officially the result of the electiontoournumerousreaders . When the poor writer Theret was conveyed to the Bastile , he asked the lieutenant in the

morning , " Sir , will you have the goodness to tell me why 1 am here ? " * ' You have a great deal of curiosity indeed , " replied the Lieutenant of Police , and retired ; And certainly our curiosity

is very great indeed to ascertain why such a resolution should be passed , and why we are excluded from all recognition and patronage . We have wearied our brains in endeavouring to

discover the answer to this official riddle , and at last we think we have discovered it . It is quite clear to us that the existence of The Freemason is still unknown to the excellent officiality of the

Royal Masonic Benevolent Institution . Someday , no doubt , like Rip Van Winkle , and the sleeper awakened , our kind-hearted and energetic Bro . James Terry will realise this most

important fact in the natural history of English Freemasonry , and with that activity which ; ver marks all his actions , will at once proceed to rectify so palpable a mistake . It has