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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 < ol ., 800 pages 8 vo ., with an Index . Cloth gilt . Price , ios . fid . " 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 l- ' reemasons , as a detailed history of their Brotherhood , it is not possible to speak too highly . " —

Public Opinion . " The author seems to have fairly exhausted thc sub-: ect . "—The Athenaeum . "The 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 .

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 on 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 of 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 " Steinmeitzen" and " Bauhutten" of Germany . Bro . Findel gives us a good deal of evidence on this head , and one thing is clear fiom 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 . i-mdel 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 out selves 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

token of industry , ability , and care , of patient research , and of skilful criticism . We know of no work which so clearly sets beforeus our amount of knowledge up to the present time on the great question of Masonic Archaiology , and there can be little doubt that what Preston ' s work is to English Freemason - ry , 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 Alasonic 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 tlie 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 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 Magaiinc . " This volume is the histoiy 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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The Freemason , SATURDAY * , AUGUST 8 , 1874 .

Labours For Freemasonry.

LABOURS FOR FREEMASONRY .

There is hardly a day passes oyer our heads but we hear of some old friend and brother Mason leaving the phalanx , falling out by the ¦ way , so to say , sometimes overborne by years

or sorrows , to whom rest comes as a glad ending to many Masonic labours , or to the honest soul " weary with the march of life . " Very few people are at all aware , and even very few

Masons seem to realize , how very great sometimes are the sacrifices some of our good brethren make for Masonry , and for the Order . We seem to think , it a very easy thing , as it is a very

common thing , to see the brethren assembled in the lodges for private work , or in the provincial meeting , or at some Masonic ceremony , or at Grand Lodge communications . We hear

their well-known voices , we listen to their cheering words , we are delighted with their admirable work , and we are impressed with their Masonic eloquence . We little think

perhaps , as we seldom know , how many sacrifices that worthy Brother and Past Master has made to be there , to fulfil his appointment , to keep his promise in order to help , or influence , or delight his

brethren . It may be he has left a struggling family at home , and made a long journey , at an expense he eould ill afford , to give pleasure to an ephemeral meeting , which separates , as if it was

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all right , and the most natural thing in the world , that that well-known brother should have come all that long distance for their sole gratification and behoof . Thev put it down to his

zeal for Freemasonry , and talk of him as a most worthy and zealous Mason . And all the while , it may be a grave question of prudential morals , whether , poor fellow , he ought to have been there

at all , whether that money , so ill wanted at home , did not properly belong " a priori" to his wife and children , whether he was justified in taking so long a journey , and incurring such expense ,

merely to add eclat to a lodge gathering , or delight a crowded room with an eloquent after-dinner speech . Many a good brother of ours , whom we have known in days of earnest work of all

kinds , has often , as we know , made many a self sacrifice , put himself much about , ( though too proud to complain of the burden ) , in or _ er that the brethren mi ght not be

disappointed , in order that the allotted programme mi ght be duly carried out . Now we may lay it clown as axiomate and incontestable that no one can travel about for

Masonry wiihout much expense of vaiious kinds , and that there are a great many good brethren of ours whose time and talents are freely ollered to the service of j the brethren , to

whom such inevitable charges are alike a burden and serious consideration . Many a zealous earnest Mason goes on working to the last , and speaking here , lecturing there , reanimating the

old , and cheering the young , and all the while amid the comfort , and even splendour of lodge banquets , his thoughts must revert to those who , after all , have the lirst claim upon him ,

and are leading a life of very strict self-denial , and even privation at home . We have been ' ed into these thoughts , having had several similar cases , brought before our notice in the

years that are past , by the report of the proceedings of the Hampshire Provincial Grand Lodge , by which it . ppeais that our excellent Bro . Stebbing ' s widow aud family are left in

comparatively indigent circumstances . We feel sure that the fact needs only to be universally known to the Craft , both north and south of the Trent to ensure a

consisiderable amount of sympathy and aid . Bro . Stebbing ' s exertions for Freemasonry have been many and , ' great . In his own Hampshire province , and indeed everywhere , his Masonic zeal

was admired and his Masonic worth was appreciated . That , after his long and active career Masonically , and as a business man , the steady labours of a long life , he should not have

prospered , must be a matter of deep regret to every reflecting mind , as to very few men has been given that remarkable combination of commercial excellence , great industry and

energy , united with unswerving honour and integrity , and lightened up with a kindness of disposition and a "bonhommie" of character which endeared him to his friends , and

disarmed his foes , if he had any . We shall , therefore , be extremely glad to hear that , outside the Hampshire province , a

movement is at once commenced , to assist the Hampshire brethren in their laudable desire and efforts to assist the widow and orphans of our lamented and valued Bro . Stebbing .