Original Correspondence.

By giving your careful consideration , and replying in your excellent journal as early as possible , you will greatl y oblige , yours obediently and fraternally , b J T . IRVING DE LISLE , I . P . M . 1577 , E . C . Napier , New Zealand , June 7 th . [ We insert this letter , ' but , to say the truth , wc do not quite comprehend thc point which has been raised . — ED . F _ M . ]

Reviews.

Reviews .

RULES AND REGULATIONS , AND LIST OF MEMBERS' SUPREME COUNCIL A . AND A . RITE . Office of the Secretary General , 33 , Goldensquare , W . This is a very well printed and cleverly arranged little " vade mecum " for the members of the A . and A . Rite .

Its type is particularly good and legible—not too small , and easy for thc eyes . This little book is a proof of the extension of this organization , which in thc last year has been both striking and rapid . In England , happily , this very important body docs not profess to grant Craft warrants , so that no possible question can arise between it and the Grand Lodge . The list of the members is enough to show

what a wide range and expansion it lias taken during the last " decade" especially , lt seems there are now eightysix Rose Croix chapters under the Grand Council , and it is in " amity" with twenty other Grand Councils , in all parts of the world , beginning in France and ending in Uruguay , We arc pleased to have seen and perused so neat , and useful , and carefully compiled a little work .

MASONIC MAGAZINE for August . George Kenning , 19 S , Fleet-street . This magazine has the following list of articles : " What was the Hermetic Society of 1721 ? " "A Lecture on thc Antiquity of Laying Corner Stones with Religious and Mystical Ceremonies ; " " What's in a Sign ? " " Old Records of the Lodge of Peebles ; " " ' The Quarterly

Communications ; " "The Astrology of Shakespeare ; " " Camoens : Poet and Warrior ; " " The Ancient Mysteries ; " "Lodge Histories ; " " The Livery Companies and Art Treasures ; " " Ars Quatuor Coronatorum ; " Literary and Antiquarian Gossip ; " " Performance of the 'Agamemnon 'of .-Eschvliis at Balliol College , Oxford . " Poetry : "Waiting : ' the

Poet's Guerdon ; " "The beautiful Stone of the Masonic Arch ; " "Sonnet cm the late learned JohnOxlce ; " "In the Long Run . " We are also in formed that a very interestingnumber will appear for September . We wish that we could hear that this deserving serial had more subscribers and more contributors , it is such a valuable medium for Masonic Archaeology and the like .

EARLY CHRISTIAN ARCHITECTURE IN IRELAND . By MARGARET STOKES . George Bell and Sons , York-street , Covent Garden . This work , dedicated to Miss Edith Chencvix French , is very interesting in matter and very charming in illustration . It is lucid , and yet elaborate ; carefully written , and yet not too dogmatic , lt is not a work of "fads , " or " fancies , "

or " crotchets , " or of a " party , " as some books on architecture often are . It has no preconceived idea to uphold or favourite theory to prop up , and , therefore , it appeals to the student of architecture to-day as a valueable work of reference , history , anil authority . We have looked into it , alas ! far too cursorily , wc fear , as time only allowed ; but wc arc much impressed with the statements and facts of the writer . We quite concur with her

assertion of the Irish-Romanesque , and are , on the whole , inclined to accept her explanation of the Round Tower . The early history of Irish architecture is involved , no doubt , in mucli obscurity ; but Mrs . Stokes has given us a very clear and connected history of its remain ? , its monuments , and its past works , anil wc ran most safely recommend the book to our many antiquarian readers . Feeling that we have not done justice to a very valuable work in this brief review of it , wc hope to recur to it at an early day .

DESCRIPTION Gl , 0 CRAPH 10 \ JE , lllS ' i 01 . 10 UE , F . T ARCH / EOLOGIQUE DE ~ LA PALESTINE . By M . V . GUERIN . " Edited by ERXEST LEKONX . Libraire des Societc ' s Antiques , & c ., Paris . This is a most formidable work of two volumes , of 500

pages each , very large octavo indeed , and which requires some time to digest previously to reviewing it . Wc defer this pleasant labour until our holiday , when we hope duly to edify the readers of the Freemason therewith . All that concerns the Holy Land is welcomed by Masonic students .

ROSICRUCIAN PAPERS . —V ' . II- _ . _ IV . < 7 < i _ Wf . Office , York . We have been favoured with those papers , now before the York College . One is by the Rev . W . ( . ' . I . ukis , "On some Modern Errors in the Illustration and Elucidation of thc Ancient Tenets of the Rosicrucian Order . " We cannot commend this movement too much , or Hie tone and temper of the

paper . We quite agree with Bro . I . ukis in his estimate of Jennings' Rosicrucians , which really is no authority on the subject , but it has this merit , it is a musingly put together , and is a skilful and laborious compilation , a good many " exec , pta" from other writers bearing on Rosirruciantstn , Gnosticism , Fire-worship , etc . We want a good history of llermeticism . One remark we feel bound to make : Is the

" Soc . Rosier in Anglia" really in connection with the old Rosicrucian Fraternity , ov is it not purely the rrc _ v . i _ vi , v __ V __ little more than a decade , of our lamented brother ? Bro Wilkinson contributes two very interesting papers , one entitled " Cotswold , " theother " livland , " both worth perusal , and both "highly to be commended . " We trust that this movement , . seasonably begun within the walls of old "Eboracum , " may go on and prosper and bear good fruit .

M OI . I . OWAV ' OI \' IMI : \ I AMI I ' ll . ; .-. —I ' nninv . n sense , ever tile best cf all learniii . it , becomes iiiv ; il-,: abl-. ' when ils practice will renovate broken he . ' illh and j- .-: n . 1 , ile soundness , slrcne . h , and vigour . Summer is ihe s' -asoa iiir icinnviir ; couejis , shortness oi breath , uhcezin ., ' , . 'isrhma . and ; d ) pulmonary diseases inllicled on the delicate and careless b > our ri ^ n - 'tiu winters , and I Inllowac ' s

remedies are means of aileelini ; a happy tr .-niMlory from dan . , cr to . safety . After Ihe hnr . iw .-d che ^ l has been fomented wilii sea water or weak brine , and dried , this I liulineut should be well rubbed into the skin , Inlh in fnuil and behind , between the blade hones . Holloway ' s I'jJJs -di ' . ' . dd he iaken incorrect any fimilinnal irregularity , Ihec wdl inakj each eriian conform to health ' s rc-( iniremeiit ' s . — rAiivr . l

Masonic Notes And Queries.

Masonic Notes and Queries .

THE STUKELEY PAPERS . Wc are all much indebted to Bro . the Rev . W . C . Lukis , M . A ., P . M ., & c ., for his researches , Masonically , as regards the Stukeley Papers , and also to Bro . T . B . Whytehead , P . M . 1 C 11 , & c , for so promptly making their contents known for our benefit . I have a fac-simile of 1725 engraved list before me , and find the lodge at thc Fountain

in the Strand , is the eighth in consecutive order , or the tenth inclusive of the two vacancies . It does not appear in thc revised list , apparently , of 1729 ( in the Grand Lodge ) , and doubtless succumbed on Bro . Stukeley leaving- the cicy on account of ill-health . The one at the Salutation Tavern I cannot locate at all in the lists of 1723-5 ; , but probably thc author of the " Four

Old Lodges" maybe able so to do , though on consulting that famous work I have failed to trace it . lt seems difficult to understand the statement of Dr . Stukeley as to his being the first initiation "for many years " so late as January fith , 1 7 , as there must have been a considerable increase to the Fraternity by that time to account for thc large attendances at thc communications and

the constitution of several lodges . The "Order of the Book" was likely enough a literary one , as Bro . Whytehead suggests . I never heard of it before . The old MS . mentioned is likely enough what is known as the "Matthew Cooke MS . " What does " 500 years ago " refer to in the account of this document ? The references are all curious and valuable . W . I . HUGHAN .

OUR LAMENTED BRO . JOHN HERVEY . In order to assist our learned liro . Kenneth R . H . Mackenzie in the compilation of a memoir of dear Bro . Hervey , all who can should at once furnish particulars of his Masonic career , so that the sketch may be as full and perfect as possible . 1 have carefully looked over the notices furnished by the

Freemason , also by Bros . Mackenzie and R . R . Davis , P . M . 25 ., but fail to find the following items , which arc worthy of preservation . In December , 1 SO 2 , a Building Committee was appointed , ancl after some years of labour completed their important work in behalf of the Freemasons' Hall , which was duly inaugurated 14 th April . 1 . 09 . The festival was a very

imposing one , some 130 Stewards having been appointed , of which body Bro . Hervey was the Secretary . As a member of this Building Committee , the services he rendered were invaluable ; and indeed so were those of all the other members . To mark the appreciation of the Grand Lodge , a sculptured tablet was placed in a conspicuous part of the new building , with an appropriate inscription , surmounted

by a marble bust of the Chairman , Bro . John Havers , and surrounded bv marble medallion portraits of the members of the Building Committee—Bros . John I .. Evans , John Hervey , John Savage , J . Rankin Stebbing , George Plucknett , and Henry Grissell , added to which a concise copy oi the inscription , with a statement of the circumstances , were ornamentally transcribed on vellum , signed by the

M . W . G . M ., and presented by order of the Grand Lodge to each of the members . Thc "Royal Installation Festival" of 1 S 75 involved enormous preliminary labour , in which Bro . Hervey , with the able Assistant Grand Secretary , and others , nobly did their part , and received the richly merited thanks of the Grand Lodge .

Bro . Hervey was a Vice-Patron of the " Royal Masonic Benevolent Institution for Aged Freemasons and Widows , " and served as Steward six times ; also as Steward twice for our "Boys , " and once for our "Girls . " It was his custom to contribute " as an annual subscriber " to all these Institutions , as well as frequently by donations , so that while a Vice-President of the last two mentioned he would

have been a Vice-Patron had all his gifts been made as " donations . " If the records of new lodges are searched , or accounts thereof , during thc last ten years , it will be found that Bro . Hervey was made honorary member of scores of lodges , so delighted were his brethren to render him every compliment in their power . We have all lost a dear brother . W . J . HUGHAN .

AN INTERESTING FIND . Permit , me the opportunity of expressing my thanks to the Editor , " Masonic Student , " and " Bro . Hughan " for their complimentary remarks in regard to my " Interesting Find . " The knowledge that the discovery 1 made in the Guildhall library is really of value to the Masonic world is

sufficient reward by itself for any little trouble it may have cost me to make it ; but it seems to me that I am doubly rewarded when in addition 1 obtain so much honour from such competent authorities as those I have named . However , it will have the effect of inciting me to further exertions in the same direction ; though I am greatly afraid a good find is not often to be repeated .

J . AND B . As I shall probably be away for the next month , 1 cannot , for the present , say any more on this recondite subject , as 1 shall be at a distance from all books of reference . But I beg to remark , " en passant , "' that I fully appreciate Bro . II ughan ' s knowledge and authority on such questions , and am only sorry that on this point we must " agree to differ , " temporarily , at any rale , which we very seldom do .

1 am myself , 1 confess , not satisfied in the lace of certain distinct assertions that the 170 J edition is the ( list , though Kloss ' s authority may also be invoked on that head . As 1 have shown , the various title pages are all , more or less , irregular , and may prove anything or nothing . See , for instance , as I have pointed out , the title page of the 1707 edition , and now we have a sixth edition ill 1705 , and ng .- 'n ill 1767 . Oliver does not seem to have known of the ij . bj or 1767 edition- - . EDITOR F . M .

As I understand Bro . Ilughan's note , the words " original edition '' are not found on the title page , lie , therefore , comes to the conclusion that the 1762 edition is the first edition , because' nothing is said at all . But then , what becomes of Oliver ' s evidence as to an edition of 1750 ? Before we can . strictly speaking , give up the 1750 edition it must be proved to us ( hat no 1750 edition ever appeared . . MASONIC BOOK COLLECTOR .

The Rosicrucians.

THE ROSICRUCIANS .

the two following letters appear in our excellent contemporary the Antiquary . We transfer them to our pages , as they may interest Masonic and Rosicrucian students " : " THE ROSICRUCIANS . . " ( See vol . I ., p . 2 S 6 . ) " The best modern work on the Rosicrucians is that by Hargrave Jennings , ancl is published by Messrs . Chatto

and Windus , of Piccadilly . The book ( though a general work on the subject ) treats more especially of the great English Rosicrucian , Robert Fludd , Flood , or 'de Fluctibus . ' The only Rosicrucians I know of at present ( and some of whose works I possess ) arc Raymond Lully , Robert Fludd , and Michael Maier . Can 'Rosy Cross ' add to my list ? if he would do so I should be grateful . "G . OAKELEV-FISHER . " 21 , Maida Vale , W . "

" ' Rosy Cross' should consult ' The Rosicrucians , their Rites ancl Mysteries , ' by Hargrave Jennings , published by the late Mr . J . C . Hotten , in 1 S 70 , of which a new edition was issued last year . " EvERAitn HOME COLEMAN . " 71 , Brecknock-road , N . " [ Some of our readers will recollect that we published a query on this subject from the Antiquary . —En . FM . J

Literary, Art, And Antiquarian Notes.

Literary , Art , and Antiquarian Notes .

"Tasmania !! Friends and Foes , ' . Feathered , Furred , and Finned , " is the title of an illustrated work upon the natural history of Tasmania , from the pen of Mrs . L . A . Meredith , to be published by Messrs . Marcus Ward and Co . Several of the species described thc author believes to be new to science , and the marvellous intelligencedisplayed by some of these lowly classified mammals , when kept by thc author as household pets , will be new" to English readers .

Another Native Poetess has appeared in India , according to the Indian Daily N < s > s , which tells us that thc fruits of native female education are being gradually appreciated . Thus Miss Torn Dutt ( whose novel it may be remembered was reviewed a short time since ) , is not the last

of Indian poets . . Another young lady , aged nineteen , is engaged in preparing a novelette for publication , in which Hindoo domestic life will form a prominent feature . Thc lady is also an artist , and originally intended to illustrate the work herself .

'Ihe " Parliamentary ! . ill Book , " from 1 S 32 to I . So ( Stanford ) , is a ne-e-. siry adjunct for all political libraries . If we may ju ' . .. •¦ ¦ by the five errata , three oi these only literals , the ma ¦ •;o f proper names and figure ? has been most carefully compiled .

We have an addm , v . i to Messrs . Kegan Paul and Co . 's cl . gant pocket editions bound in vellum in Tennyson ' s " Princess . " We understand that Mr . Rurnand is thc new editor of Punch .

The Duke of Norfolk , Hereditary Karl Marshal , has nominated Mr . Tucker , Rouge Croix Pursuivant of Arms , to the Patent Ollice of Somerset Herald in Ordinary , so long held by the late Mr . Planch .. rV-jS A very fine fresco , b y J ' r . i Angelino , of I' . csole , has been acquired by the Paris Louvre . It was removed with considerable difficulty from a convent in the neighbourhood of Ficsole . . I

It is slated that , after completing his work on Locke , Professor A . C . Eraser , the editor of Berkeley , will undertake an exhaustive' work on ! lume . Mr . Vicat Cole , painter , and Mr . John L . Pearson , architect of the new cathedral at Truro , have been elected Royal Academicians .

The British Museu . 1 has purchased a vaulted wooden Egyptian coffin , well preserved , and a gilded mask and mummy of a lady named Tnliutisa or Thothsi , one of the court or family of the queen of Ainasis I ., of the eighteenth dynasty .

St . Stephen s Church , Walbrook , at thc back of the Mansion House , is undergoing extensive repairs and restorations , both externall y and internally . This church , often regarded as f / ii' / (/' u'ii ? i-c of Sir Christopher Wren , it would seem , is at least to be spared in the projected demolition of City sanctuaries .

Mr . Hanson , Chairman of the Library Committee of the City of London , is engaged in collecting materials , from the records of the Corporal ion and other places , for a series of biographical notices of the Aldermen of the Ward of Billingsgate , from the earliest time .

C I . KO ' . ATRA s . NEKDI . I :. — I he obelisk is no longer sen-eciicd from view , but has one of the two sphinxes in model to show the general appearance , besides other additions , the correctness of which might be open to discussion . One fragment of its varied history seems to be worth recording . The Cleopatra , when ready to sail , was insured by Mr . Dixon to the amount expended by

himj ( .. | O 00 . () n its being saved for the nation the difficulty of salvage arose , and the obelisk , being considered an object of virtu , worth £ 25 , , costs and £ 2000 were given to the salvors . An action against the insurance company recovered for Mr . Dickson about £ 1 . 500 , reducing the loss to £ . -, 000 in cash . One would naturally have thought that the matter had ended : but , a case coming before the House

of Lords , in which judgment was given reversing the previously received interpretation of the law , the verdict for Mr . Dixon was appealed against , ami the appeal resulted in his havirg to pay the costs of both sides , or £ . 5000 . The bare expenses of bringing over this object of interest ( about £ 11 , 5011 ) appear not to have exceeded the calculations ; but when it is considered that to this sum of

£ , 500 are to he added £ 3500 law costs and salvage , and a further sum of costs amounting to £ 5000 increasing the total expenditure to £ 19 , 500—of which £ 10 . 000 was paid by Professor Wilson , the whole remainder . £ 9 , 500 , falling on Mr . Dixon—it must be admitted that , however anxious people may be to preserve for the nation such ancient monuments , most would pause before incurring li'co responsibilities . —Academy .