Reviews.

"Temple Bar" and "Household Words , " progress with their accustomed ability . The story of the " Duke's Children" is coming to a close ; it is too much spun out . We like " Set in a Silver Sea " less and less . But then we are very old fashioned . Temple Bar is actually , however , somewhat below its normal level . " The Antiquary " is a first-rate number , and wc trust , as we think , is gaining strength month by month . It is a most interesting collection of antiquarian details .

PLAIN LIVING AND HIGH THINKING . By W . H . DAVENPORT ADAMS . John Hogg , Paternoster-row . We reviewed a former work of the same writer , called the "Secret of Success , " and we have much pleasure in recording our most favourable opinion of this work , published this year . We have ourselves read it , ancl highly approve of it ,

and would like to put it into the hands of all reading boys . It is admirable conceived , ancl well brought out , and we can hardly fancy any sustained narrative more likely to jilcase or to attract , to move and edify the enquiring and thoughtful mind of youth . It would bea most safe jirizc book , and an admirable birthday gift . We commend it to many amongst us .

THE MAGISTRATE'S POCKET GUIDE . By 1 . BAKER , Esq ., Inner Temple . Knight and Co ., yo , Fleet-street . This is a very useful little vade mrriim , lucid antl legal , juecise ancl jiortablc , which all who arc , or asjiirc to the honourable position of a "Justice of the Peace" may well obtain and carefully peruse . It will be always valuable for information , and may prove most important to many on some pressing occasion .

BOLETIN OFFICIAL DE LA GRAN LOG IA UN I DA DE COLON—E ISLA DE CUBA . Thirty-one lodges were represented atthe mectingof this Grand Lodge at Havannah , under G . M . Bro . Antonio Covin , April iSth . There were two Grand Bodies in Cuba ,

and it was somewhat difficult at this distance from the scene of ojierations to decide which was in the right or wrong . Now , as we understand matters , they form one united Grand Lodge . If this be the real state of affairs , which is still , wc confess , a little hazy , we wish it all success . It has adopted a good motto— " ln Fcedore Vis . "

CATALOGUE OF BOOKS , No . 31 , E . W . Sriiins , 32 . Museum-street . This is another of our well-known old acquaintance , Mr . Stibbs' catalogues , interesting to the book collector in all respects . We note sonic curious books . It has a fine Bihlia Polyglotta , 1657 ; a large collection of classical , jihilological , andarcli * i * ological , and some rare books in bibliograjihy , biography , county history , and the like . There are

some remarkable dictionaries , anel we note sjiecially Hutchinson ' s History of Dorsetshire , £ 12 12 s . ; Moryson ' s "Itinerary . " , { , ' 4 . is . ; Nicholas ' s "Testamenta Vclusta ; " Ottley ' s " Enquiry into the History of Engraving , " £ Ci iOs . fid . ; and many more . Indeed , lo do full justice to the catalogue would take a much larger amount of sjjacc than wc can afford . Wc recommend our readers to get it antl study it for themselves .

Masonic Notes And Queries.

Masonic Notes and Queries .

JACHIN AND BOAZ . 1 think that my good friend , Bro . Hughan , will now admit that Bro . Coombc ' s book makes the probability lean , at any rate , to the correctness of Oliver ' s statement . It is hardly likely that if the work was only published in 17 ( 12 it could have reached a sixth edition in 1717 , it is 1 ) priori much more probable that Oliver was right when he saitl a fifth edition was published in 170 . 1 . The matter is important

as upholding the buna Jules of Dr . Oliver , for it is quite cleat to me , as it is to all , that if hi * was ineonert in this elistinrl statement , he coultl he relied ujjon in nothing whatever . In the reaction of a critical school , perhaps somewhat hard measure has been meted out to the good old doctor . I , for one , could not get over Bro . Walter Spencer ' s clear evidence on the subject , whicii apjicarcd to mc to settle the question , I confess . EDITOR "F . M . "

MISCELLANEA . Bro . thc Rev . W . (_' . Lnkis sends mi * . some inure extracts I torn his Stukeley correspondence : Edmund Weaver writing to Dr . S . in January , 1730 , says : " The bearer intends lo ask you for the pnjii-r I st nt you some time since concerning Free Maisonry , it boing lies , which , if not lost , pray give him , for he seems lo

valine it more than it deserves . " Maurice Johnson , of Spalding , writing lo Dr . S . in July , i . ' rjy , says : "The Dukrof Bucclctig , Lonl of 0111 * Manor , our Patron and Benefactor , has bestowed l . angley's , or the Free Masons' archilctrtiiri : from Yiliiivius to ( he present time on us—a work of too great expense ! ' ) have been otherwise expected to be- seen in thir , village . "

T . 1-5 . WHYTEHEAD

ANCIENT AND ACCEPTED KITE . I have been studying lately the "History of the A . and A . Rite" for an archaeological purpose . Can any one tell me when the " Berlin Constitutions " first appeared , and in what way ? The earliest trace I can find of them , so far , is as used by the French Brother Count de la Grasse , about 1 S 03 . Daruty in his recent work seems to set little store by them .

MASONIC STL'DEN'I

GODFREY HIGGINS . I note Bro . Kenneth Mackenzie ' s interesting remarks anent the "Anakalypsis , " & c , ancl I agree with him that the book is one for a Masonic student to peruse . It is also , however , 1 think , fair to remark thai we cannot altogether

safely rely on Godfrey Higgins' crilcal , historical , and arch--eological statements in itr-Frceniasimiy , as he was somewhat erratic in his views , antl far too hasty in his assumptions and conrlii-ions . Still , the work is a very remarkable one , and was formerly . somewhat rare . I am also glad lo hear of the reprint .

MASONIC STL'DEN'I

I very warmly stippnit Ihe letler from liro . Kenneth K . II . Nlaiht'ii . ' . ii- in j > r ; ii :. i nf the leprint of the " Anaralyp ' . is , " in two vol :,., now being issued by HID . Liinc ..

Masonic Notes And Queries.

Burns , of Southampton-row , London . The second volume has still to be issued . 'The first being in live jiarts , at twoand-sixpencc each , for which there surely should be a large sale , the original work , after costing from ten to twelve guineas , only 200 copies being printed . Many of ns are waiting anxiously for the appearance of the first number of the second volume , thc lirst volume being all that could be desired . Doubtless if the entcrj ) rise is siijiportcd as it should be , Bro . Burns would follow with a reprint of the " Celtic Druids , " by the same curious and talented author .

W . 1 . HUGHAN

THE "ALFRED LODGE" MEDAL , OXFORD . In thc Liberal Freemason , Boston ( well named for its liberal views and plentiful supply of Masonic views , & c . ) , we find the folioiving in alluding to my query as to the issue of a medal by the "Alfred Lodge , Oxford , "— "We have seen in the hands of a well-known collector , a medal , bearing the bust of King Alfred on one side , and thc Arms of Oxford University on the other . " As does Bro . VV . T . R .

Marvin , thc learned collector referred to , the editor considers the medal was struck for a lodge , and most likely by the Oxford lodge already noted . 'The query in the Freemason was in [ irosecution . of the search for evidence in response to liro . Marvin ' s desire , and I have had thc pleasure of writing him this last week of the successful result to my enquiries . Bro . the Rev . J . Holden Jukes , M . A . ( P . M ., < S * c ) . kindly interested himself in thc matter , and

reported first of all that one of the oldest members of thc [) rescnt " Alfred " Lodge , Oxford , knew not of any such medal , but that he has an old seal , the same as the obverse of medal in question . The present "Alfred" Lodge vvas chartered in the year 1 S 14 , but there was another of the same name , only held in thc " University of Oxford , " which was warranted in 17 &) as 453 , then in 17 S 0 numbered 301 , in 17 S 1 it became 301 , and in 178211 was lowered

to 304 , soon after which it succumbed . The old records preserved commence in 17 G 0 , ancl continue to 17 S 2 . The minute of thc 22 nd Oct ., 1772 , informs us of the needed fact as to the medal as follows : " Bro . Treasurer laid before the lodge a copy of the dye of a medal which was approved of , and ordered that forty be struck for the use eif the Lodge of Alfred . " On the dth Nov ., 1772 , it was "agreed chat every Master Mason shall pay ios . Cd . for

medal , none under that Degree being admitted to that distinction . " From 1777 , the Rev . Bro . Jukes tells me , it was styled the " Royal Alfred , " anel in the register of initiations occasionally the gentlemen newly admitted are styled " a gifted brother ; " the meaning of wl ich term is not quite clear now . The medal is just the size of a "crown , " antl Bro . Marvin ' s iinjiression is the onl y one so far known to hc in existence . Obverse . Bust of King Alfred to right ,

with coronet , & c . Legend . Dominits llltiimnatio Mea . Reverse . Shield , quarterly , 1 & 4 , a book opened between three crowns . Left side of book are seven seals ( Oxford University Arms ) 2 Si 3 Arms of thc " Modern " Grand Lodge of England . Above the shield is the sun . Legend . Sit lux ct lux fuit . 'This bronze medal was struck A . D . 1772 , and has a peculiar kind of ring at top , doubtless from which to susjiend it . The legend on obverse is motto on the University Arms .

W . 1 . HUGHAN

MILITARY LODGES . Looking over the first volume of the "Masonic Magazine , " at p . 373 ( June 1 S 74 ) , I noticed recently an article by our Bit ) . Hughan , headed— " Bye-Laws of Military Lodges . " Prefatory to the bye-laws , which are set forth in detail , Bro . Hughan remarks : "We can neither decide , as yet , cither as to their date or thc number of the lodge . " The code itself , distinguishes the regiment , as "His

Majesty s 12 th hoot , " and the lodge as "the Duke of Norfolk ' s Masons' Lodge . " The lodge in question was warranted by thc Grand Lodge of Scotland as No . 5 8 , in 1747 , and cut off in iSrxj . Being cited on the Scottish Leidge Roll as No . ** S , in thc " Duke of Norfolk ' s Regiment , " and two regiments of foot having borne that title , I was at the pains , some six months ago , of searching amongst the records of both these regiments , in the library of the

United Service Institution , with a view to ascertaining which nf the two had been quartered in Scotland in the year 1747 , when the warrant No . 58 was granted . In a tolerably searching investigation of regimental lodges , I have been much baltletl ; liistly , by the very vague manner in which they are described in Grand Lodge calendars , and , secondly , by ( lit : absence of any allusion to Freemasons ' lodges in regimental records . For example , in the

numeration of 171 , 2-1813 , "Modems , " there a |]] ii * ars No . . 591 , Lodge of Philanthropists , in Scotch Brigade , Madras , No . 11 , C . of Coroinantlcl , constituted 1 S 02 . Accidentally , I found that the old tj 4 th Regiment bore the soubriquet of the " Scotch Brigade , " hence a regimental lodge is added to my list ; but Ihe connection between the ej 4 th Foot and the " Scotch Brigade " is nowhere suggested by any Masnuic it-cord .

R . F . GOULD

GIBBON AND THE LODGE OF FRIENDSHIP . Edward Gibbon , the learned author of thc "Historyof the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire , " was a member of the Lodge of Friendship . No . 6 . Through the influence of Mr ., afterwards Lord , Eliot , who married Gibbon ' s first cousin , anel an ancestor of the present Earl of St . Germans , Past Grand Warden , a member of both Friendship Lodge and Friendship Chapter , Bro . Gibbon vvas elected M . P .

for Liskeard , for which borough he sat during eight sessions . He represented Lymington , Hants , in the succeeding parliament , and for three years held the comfortable post of a Commissioner of 'Trade and Plantations , but he resigned lfis seat and lost his apjiointment on the dissolution of Lord North ' s ministry . Gibbon it was who established the Roman Club , of which Bros . Lord Wcninan , Hon . John Dainer , Sir Thomas Gascoinc , a descendant of the

younger brother of the celebrated Lord Chief Justice Gascoinc of the reign of Henry IV ., and other brethren of this lodge were members . 'The Lodge of Fricndshiji , No . 0 , which was warranted in 1 7 21 , was about the first of onr lodges to assume a elistinctive name , that nf " Friendship" having been chosen at a

mee ling on the mill March , 186 7 , on which tlay also I lis Grace the Dnke of Beaufort , Grantl Master in succession to Lord Blayney , was elected its W . Master . The collection of marbles antl terta-fottas , known as the Tnwnlev Gallery , in the Briti : h Museum , was made by Bro . Charles Tmvnley , a member of Friendship , No . C > .

Masonic Notes And Queries.

Bro . Townley died 3 rd January , 1 S 05 , and his executors offered his collection of marbles and terra-cottas only to thc nation . They were purchased under an Act of Parliament , specially passed for the purpose , for £ 20 , 000 , and , additional premises having heen built , the gallery was opened to the public in 1 S 0 S . The rest of his antiquities , illustrative of the marbles , were purchased under another Act in 1 S 14 for £ 8200 . Thomas , fourth Lord Foley , son of Thomas , third

lord , vvas a member of Lodge No . 6 . The family , it seems , was a " fast " one , and it was in respect of one of them who crossed over to the continent in order to avoid his creditors that Selwyn wittily observed " It is a Pass-over that will not be much relished by the Jews . " Lord Foley was so annoyed at their having had dealings with the lewish money-lenders that he cut his sons off with a shilling . Subsequently , however , he relented , and made a will in

their favour , on hearing * which thc same Selwyn remarked that " They had gained considerably more hy thc New 'Testament than by the Old . ' , It is well known that it was the custom in the last century for gentlemen to wear swords when out jironienading or on thc horse , ancl the same custom is still observed at

Her Majesty ' s Court . Preston mentions in his " Illustrations " that the question was seriously considered of allowing brethren , when met together , to wear swords . It may not be so generally known that in December , 1707 , this privilege was allowed to the members of LodgcNo . fi , so at least said Bro . Piatt in his address on the nrr .-ision nf its

centenary celebration in 1807 . However , the privilege was withdrawn on 12 th May , 17 OS . Thc same brother records that on 13 th May , 1707 , thc Duchess of Beaufort was nominated , antl nn the 27 th of thc month elected " Lady Patroness of the Lodge of Friendship , " and a pair of gloves , of the value of live guineas , was presented to Her Grace , in recognition of her kindness in accepting thc ofiice .

It will have been noticed by those who have studied the older lodge lists that have been handed down to us , and are still fortunately preserved in the archives of Grand Lodge , that many , if not most , of our early lodges met in comparatively humble neighbourhoods , though not so humble then as they arc now . Thus the jiresent Fortitude and Olel Cumberland , No . 12 , which Bro . Gould in his " Four Old Lodges" directly traces back to original No . *; Lodge , that

met at thc Applctrec 'Tavern , Charles-street , Covent Garden , once held its meetings at the Queen ' s Head , Knave ' s Acre . A neighbourhood so designated , though the people , of course , may have been quite honest , seems hardly tn have been the jilace in which to look for a lodge of Freemasons . On jiassing , however , to the pages of Stryj ) e ' s edition of Stow , published 1720 , it will be fountl that Knave's Acre " was one anel the same with ' Pulteney' or ' Pmiltney-sticet , ' "

antl-is there described in manner following : "Knaves Acre e > r Poultncy-street , falls into Biewer . s-sitrce't by Windmill-street end , so runs westward as far as Marybone-strcet , and Warwick-street end ; and crossing the same and Swallow-street , falls into Glasshouse-street , whicii leadeth into the fields on the back side of Burlington Garden , and thence to Albemarle Buildings . This Knave ' s Acre is but narrow , and chiefly inhabited by those that deal in old

goods and glass bottles . On the . south side is a small place called Spur-alley , and another called Prince's-court . And on the north side is Walkcr ' s-court , with a pretty Freestone pavement , which falls into Peter-street , and a little beyond this court is another small jilace railed Cymball ' s-alley , which also leads into Peter-street . " From the places named , such as Brewer-street , Windmill-street , Swallow-street , Glasshouse-street , Burlington Gardens , -Sri-., we arc enabled

to form a pretty accurate idea of the locality of Knave ' s Acre . Strype , however , says nothing as to why it was so called . Perhaps some of the readers of lilt : Freemason may be in a position to explain Ihe teas in . Dealers in " olel glass bottles" neither were , nor are , "knaves " of netrcssity . According to Stow , " tin- i-oniji . inv of Masons , being otherwise termed Freemasons , nf anvii-nt standing , and good reckoning , by means nf affable anil Kind meetings

divers times , and as . 1 loving lirnlhi-rhnutl should use to tin , did frequent this mutual assembly in Ihe lime 1 if King I letiry IV ., in the twelfth year nf 1 lis Mn . 1 Grai-iuus Reign . 'These arms granted by William llniii-kistun Clarrm ietix Kingat-anns , 13 Edw . IV . " Benet , Abbot nf Wit nil , Mnsl .-r ( 1 I ' m- h'evei-.-nl Btcle , first brought Masons , ami woi'lrim-ti in Innc intn Britain among the Saxons in the year iiSr , A . D . A .

Reports Of Masonic Meetings.

REPORTS OF MASONIC MEETINGS .

( Craft filasouru . LODGE OF ASAPH ( N , / . i ;} i « j ) . —Tliis " from , rank" lodge held its July meeting on Monday Taflernoon last in the Zetland Room , at Freemasons' Mall , Gnat Queen-street , and as this was the la . sl occasion upon which Bro . Edward Swanbtirough would occupy the chair of K . S . his brethren showed uj > in strength , lonsitfering at this season of the year so many of them are called away from town by reason of their professional engagements , as , for example ,

is the case wilh the popular Secretary , Bro . E . Stanton Jones , P . M ., Z ., whose duties are temjiorarilly and assiduously filled b y Bro . ( . M . Chamberlain , P . AI . Although the Lodgeof Asaph meets at two o ' clock , and has but a brief space of time wherein to transact Masonic business , a vast amount of work is always got through , and thc dispensation of charity occupies a considerable portion of its time , for No . 1319 is quite a board of benevolence in itself ,

every deserving appeal , when properly introduced and recommended , being met with a hearty response , and it is astonishing the number of cases relieved in the course of the Masonic year . Amongst those jiresent at the opening of lotlge and during the subsequent proceedings were Bros . 1-:. Swanborough , W . M . ; Charles Wellard , S . W . ; Harry Cox , j . W . ; Charles Coote , jun ., 'Treasurer ; J . M . Chamberlain , P . M ., acting as Secretary , in the absence of Bro . E . Stanton Jones , ' P . M . ; W . Meyer Lutz , S . D . ;

John M . Leon , J . D . ; 1 " . Delevanti , LG . ; Charles Ernest ' Tinney , Organist ; Abraham I Icnson , Steward ; J . Gilbert , 'Tyler . The following are the Past Masters of ihe lodge : Bros . Charles S . ( eylcerll , Grand Organist ; James Weaver , P . P . G . O . Middx . ; George Buckland , I . P . M . ; William A . Tinney ; antl E . Frewin . 'The following members of Ihe lodge were present : Bros . J . D . Beveridge , A . Woodhouse-, J . G . Taylor , G . Hiimjihiey , II . Snytlers , Harry Brarcy . \ V . ) . Ki-nl , II . Baker , 11 . ' | . C . iVntt , G . R . Keei-tnn , Alfred Phillip- . , Harry Ashley , Jnseph Perry . W . Rolls ,