Contents.

CONTENTS .

L lADIRS 3 - < 9 Supreme Grand Chapter of England 219 Consecration of the Roval Victorian Jubilee Lodge , No . 31 S 4 . ' . 350 Provincial Grand Chapter of West Yorkshire 251 Consecration of the Francis White Chapter , Mrt nrt 2 > 2

provincial Grand Mark Lodge of Leicestershire , Northamptonshire , Derbyshire , and Rutland .... 2 J 3 Notes on a Minute Book of an Early Athol Lodge 3 $ 3 Catalogue of Masonic Books and MSS . ( II ) 253 Grand Oilicers of the Year 2 J 4 Grand Lodge and the Queen ' s Jubilee 255 Annual Supper of the Pythagorean Chapter of Instruction 2 $ j

Funeral of Bro . Col . Tanner-Daw , Prov . G . M . M . M . of Devon ajj Theatres 233 CORRESPONDENCEThe Jubilee Meeting 237 Reviews 257 REPORTS 01 / MASONIC MEETINGSCraft Masonry 238

Instruction 200 Royal Arch 261 Instruction 262 Mark Masonry 262 Knights Templar 36 3 Ancient and Accepted Rite 36 3 West Lancashire Alpass Benevolent Institution 26 3 Masonic and General Tidings 26 3 Lodge Meetings for Next Week 264

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His Royal Highness the M . W . GRAND MASTER has at length Gra i ! ibifee selected Monday , the 13 th June prox ., as the day on which the Sleeting . United Grand Lodge will meet in the Royal Albert Hall , South Kensington , for the purpose of passing a resolution congratulating

the Q UEEN on the completion of the Jubilee year of her MAJESTY ' S reign . The day appears to have been well chosen , for this reason at all events , that it will enable the brethren to hold their meeting and fulfil a manifest and immensely p leasurable duty without in any way trenching upon the general programme of public commemoration . There is a tremendous crush of public

functions immediately preceding and following Accession Day—the 20 th June—and those in charge of the arrangements must have experienced no little difficulty in finding a day which was not already engaged for a similar purpose either in town or country . However , both the day and place have now been chosen , and for the second time within little more than the brief

period of a dozen years the Royal Albert Hall will be the scene of such a gathering of Freemasons as no age or country has ever witnessed . The immediate object of this grand convention is that the members of our Society may solemnly proclaim their loyalty to the Sovereign , who , during the last 50 years , has presided so happily and so gloriously over the fortunes

of the British Empire , and who , at the same time , has never once during all those years known what it was to be out of sympathy with her subjects , or to find her subjects out of sympathy with her . The subsidiary object which has been wisely superadded is that Grand Lodge may be enabled to make this display of its loyalty an occasion for publicly exercising its

benevolence towards the Masonic Charitable Institutions , and substantially assisting them in their kindly task of alleviating the sorrows of poor brethren and their widows and children . The conjunction of these two purposes will

assuredl y be gratifying to a monarch , whose whole regal life has been regulated and controlled by loyalty to the constitution of which she is the head and centre , and who , even in the time of her deepest tribulation , has shown a woman ' s chanty towards all in poverty and distress .

* * * A GLANCE at the list of the brethren who have just been The oTnce ? s ? n ( 1 appointed to office in Grand Lodge will show that the GRAND MASTER has displayed his wonted judgment in his distribution

of the honours at his bestowal . One of the Grand Chaplains—Bro . the Rev . T . C . SMYTH , D . D . —hails Irom West Yorkshire , and the other—Bro . the Rev . G . W . WELDON—from London . Of the Grand Deacons , Bro . BURDETT -COUTTS , though initiated in a provincial lodge , has a record chiefl y metropolitan , while Bro . GEORGE COOPER has done the bulk of his

work in Essex . Bio . KNYVETT , though he began his Masonic career in a Red A pron Lodge ( No . 58 ) , is chiefly known by his services in Hertfordshire , and Bro . FREEMAN ' S sphere of labour has been confined to Sussex , ihe Deputy Grand Director and Assistant Grand Director of Ceremonies are both London men , and so is the Grand Sword Bearer , but both the

wand Standard Bearers are provincial Masons , Bro . BEECH hailing from Warwickshire , and Bro . FENDELOW from Staffordshire , with a dash of Warwickshire in the record . The Asst . Grand Purst . is a London brother , While as regards the Grand Organist , we concern ourselves rather about his ^ tne as a musician than his qualifications as a Mason , and in this respect

er e is no doubt as to the wisdom of appointing Bro . Sir ARTHUR UL UVAN . If in the foregoing enumeration the balance in respect of umbers would appear to incline towards London rather than the provinces , anf ^ 0 (^ S itself may be said to have redressed the inequality by t i j 'Pation when it elected Bro . EVE from the Province of Hampshire and e 'sle of Wight lo the post of Grand Treasurer .

*«* s « pre ^ Annual Convocation of Supreme Grand Chapter Chapter ? " has followed close at the heels of the Craft Grand Festival , Qffi and the brethren have now before them the new Grand cers in both sections of Constitutional Masonry . We have but few are S ¦' - ° ^ ^ t 0 l ^ Companions appointed on Wednesday . ' They aU of them almost of necessity men who have won their purple and

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gold in the Craft Grand Lodge , but the two lists of Grand Officers seldom tally precisely—in the first place , because , though all Royal Arch Masons must be Craft Masons first , the converse is not true that all Craft Masons must take the Royal Arch . In the next place , many men are content with the fame they win in the Craft , and only become Arch Masons because the

Arch is a recognised part of Craft Masonry . However , with the exception of Bro . Sir GEORGE ELLIOT , Bart ., M . P ., who is P . G . Master of the East Division of S . Wales , and who , on Wednesday , was invested as G . S . N ., the whole of the new Officers of Supreme Grand Chapter are either present or past Grand Officers in United Grand Lodge . Thus Comp . Sir J . W . ELLIS ,

Bart ., M . P ., Grand Principal Sojourner , was Grand Junior Warden in 1882 , while Comps . the Rev . T . C . SMYTH , D . D ., and GEORGE COOPER , Grand 1 st and 2 nd Assist . Sojourners respectively are the former one of the Grand Chaplains and the latter one of the Grand S . Deacons of the year . Comp . F . S . KNYVETT , one of the Grand J . Deacons , is Grand

Swd . Br ., and Comp . V . P . FREEMAN , the other Grand S . Deacon , the 1 st Grand Std . Br . Comps . E . BAYLIS , J . LAURENCE MATHER , and W . M . BYWATER , the other three Grand Std . Brs . are all officers in Grand Lodge , and so are Comps . G . BEECH and C . FENDELOW , while W . R . WOOD , Assist . D . G . D . C , was Grand Pursuivant in 1882 , and Comp . WILHELM

KUHE the Grand Organist , was Grand Organist of Grand Lodge from 1874 to 1877 . It only remains to add that Comp . RICHARD EVE is the Royal Arch Grand Treasurer and the libt of the new officers of Grand Chapter for the year is completed . # ,. *

The Festiv 1 DURING the few days that will elapse between now and of Wednesday Wednesday next there is a possibility that the Board of 1 ex ' Stewards may be increased by the addition of a few more

volunteers , whose personal contributions will have the effect of swelling the general total , though their efforts at anything like canvassing will , in the nature of things , be wholly , or almost wholly , unproductive . But for all practical purposes , we may take it that the Board , as now constituted , will do the lion ' s share of the work for the Girls' School Festival of the current

year . It is not unnatural , therefore , that we should feel considerable satisfaction at the very substantial additions that have been made to the list of Stewards during the month of April . On the 2 nd of April the number of brethren who had tendered their services was 203 . On Saturday last it was exactly 250 , and during the last few days it has been still further raised , so

that the diminution in number will be less formidable than we anticipated . Unfortunately , as we have pointed out on previous occasions , the new comers will have but little chance of doing more than influence their personal friends , and if after all there is to be anything like last year ' s total of ^ 13 , 000 —which , by the way , from all we hear , seems hardly possible—we must trust

mainly to the older Stewards to raise it . That they , and indeed every brother who has offered to assist in the good work , will do all they can to secure a good result is beyond doubt , and whatever may be the figure which it will be Bro . HEDGES ' S fortune to announce at the Festival , those who have had a hand in raising it will receive the hearty thanks of the whole Masonic community for their services .

• * * The R M n f ^ must ° ^ our con g ratu lat ' t 0 ^ e worthy Secretary Festivaiiii ' of the Royal Masonic Benevolent Institution on having secured , S 88 , the services as Chairman for the Festival of 1888 of so able and influential a brother as Bro . Sir GEORGE ELLIOT , Bart ., M . P ., P . G . M-

of the Eastern Division of South Wales . Bro . TERRY ' influence in the Southern half of the principality must be considerable . It is not so very long ago that the late lamented Bro . Col . LLOYD-PHILLIPS , P . G . M . of the Western Division , presided at a Benevolent Festival and the result was

highly satisfactory , notwithstanding the Province is far from being a strong one . Bro . Sir GEORGE ELLIOT ' qualifications for the task are well known , and as the lodges under his sway are more numerous than in the Eastern Division , we may hope that Bro . TERRY will again have occasion to rejoice over some big figures .

Supreme Grand Chapter Of England.

SUPREME GRAND CHAPTER OF ENGLAND .

The Quarterly Convocation of Supreme Grand Chapter of Royal Arch Masons of England was held on Wednesday evening at Freemasons' Hall . Comp . Robert Grey , President of the Committee of General Purposes , occupied the chair of M . E . Z , Comp . Gerard Ford , Grand Superintendent of Sussex , took the chair of H ., and Comp . Thomas Fenn , Past President of the Committee of General Purposes , presided as J . There were also present on the

dais—Comps . Shadwell H . Clerke , G . S . E . ; Rev . J . N . Palmer , P . Soj . ; Major J . Sampson Peirce , ist A . S . ; Ralph Clutton , as 2 nd A . S . ; D . P . Cama , P . G . Treasurer j H . Trueman Wood , P . G . Std . Br . ; Joseph C . Parkinson , P . G . Swd . Br . ; J . Smith Eastes , P . G . S . B . ; Rev . Thomas J . Robinson , P . G . Soj . ; J . H . Matthews , P . G . D . C . ; Dr . Woodman , H . Maudslay , P . G . Swd . Br . ; James Lewis Thomas , P . G . Swd . Br . j F . Davison , P . A . G . Soj . ; Dr . Ralph Gooding-, P . G . Soj . ; E . M . Lott , P . G . Ore . - Rudolph A . Glover , G . Std . Br . ; E . J . Barron , P . G . S . B . ; Magnus Ohren , P . G . D . C ; H . J . P . Dumas , P . G . S . B . ; Col . Sackville West , P . G . S . N . j James Glaisher , P . Asst . G . Soj . ; J . M . Case , P . G . D . C ; and E . Bowyer , P . G . S . B .