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SECOND EDITION . —NOW KEADV . Price One Shilling , Post-free , Revised and Enlarged . Freemasonry In Relation to Civil Authority and the Family Circle , BY BRO . CHALMERS l . PATON . ( Past Master , No . 393 , England . ) rpHIS work is a perfect handbook of the - principles of Fieemasonry , founded on the Ancient Charges and Symbols , and will be found to be eminentl y practical and useful in the vindication and support of the Order . Office , 198 , Fleet-street .

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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 g ilt . Price , 10 s . fid . " This book is a strictly historical one , from which all is excluded that is not based upon ascertained or probable fact . "—Buiitlcr . " 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 fairl y exhausted thc subject . "—The Athenaeum . " The edition we arc now considering is a second English edition , which had tlie 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 mott complete work on Freemasonry which has yet appeared , and that he deserves the greatest credit for his careful and accurate treatment of all evidence ou the subject , and for his honest desire after truth . Bro . Findel givis 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 tlie twelfth century , and as then arising from the operative Masons , and specially the " Sieinmeitzen" 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 we can fairly say of Bro Findel's work , it is marked from first to last hy 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 whatjl ' reston's work is to English Freemasonry , Findel ' s work is to cosmopolitan Fieemasonry . 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 rise from the perusal of its pages without a higher idea both of the histoiical 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 of 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 thepresent text-book on the subject . "—Manchester Guardian Bro . GEORGE KENNING , 108 FLEET STREETLONDONE . C .

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The Freemason , S ATURDAY , F EBRUARY 7 , 1874 .

Our Masonic Charities.

OUR MASONIC CHARITIES .

A very interesting resume of the past efforts and present position of our Masonic Charities has recently been published by Bro . Henry Watson , S . W . 1386 , Lincoln , which deserves

to be read and thought over by the Craft . According to Bro . Watson ' s calculations , the funded property of the Girls' School is as follows : —Invested in Three Per Cent . Consols ,

££ 28 , 000 ; invested in Three Per Cent . Consols , as a Susteutation Fund and Improvement Account , £ 1 , 950 ; cost of freehold land and buildings , ( all which are paid for ) £ 30 , 062—or in all

i £ 6 o , oiz . It would appear that the fixed income of the Institution is ^ 840 per annum , and that the annual expenditure may be estimated at about

£ 5 , 300 annually , leaving yearly a considerable sum to be raised from the benevolence of the Craft , which has always cheerfully and liberally supported this admirable Institution , of which ,

as Freemasons , we may be justly proud . Probably before very long the increasing demands of our Order will require enlarged

accommodation at the School , and we feel certain that when the time comes , the House Committee will be warmly supported by all the members of our Order .

Some alterations have recently been made to increase the accommodation , but we cannot shut our eyes to the fact , that , with our rapidly . augmenting numbers , we shall eventually have

more claimants on our fraternal sympathy ; and if that be the case , unless , ere long , the accommodation at the Girl ' s School bo increased , very many poor applicants must be " left out in the cold . "

The Boys' School , which Bro . Watson next notices , will in April next accommodate 170 boys ; but even this number cannot fail to be augmented before long by the constantly increasing demands for admission .

The Boys' School lias been enlarged , as many of our readers well know , at a considerable cost , viz .: — £ 47 , 116 6 s . 4 d ., the whole of which sum

has been defrayed from the original funded property of the School , and from the liberal support of our brethren .

All honour to them ! But in consequence of this large outlay , the Boys' School has now no funded property at