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' So industrious were the Alasons to suppress it , that in a week ' s time not one of thc papers could bc found ; wherever they saw them they made away with them . They went from coffee house ] to coffee house , and tore them privately out of the book . Those they could not come at so easily they bought , even at thc extravagant price of two shillings

and sixpence and five shillings a paper . . . . The Freemasons were prodigiously nettled at the publication of this Post Boy . Yet , according to their wonted assurance , they put a good face on the matter , and said there was nothing in it ; but at the same time huddled up the affair with all the privacy imaginable , and presently put out

a sham discovery to invalidate the other , but you may depend upon it that the Post Boy was a genuine discovery . " The so-called discovery in the Post Boy Bro . Gould unearthed about a year ago , and was reprinted in the Freemason , but to what other publication does the father

refer , by the " sham discovery to invalidate the other ? " If thc " Freemason ' s Accusation and Defence" was not a mere catchpenny , some publication must have appeared in 1723 while thc father was in London , which rumour ascribed to the Freemasons . 1 know that " Thc Grand Alystery of Frce-AIasons discovered" was printed in 1724 . Now , did

the father refer to that publication , as the sham discovery to invalidate the other '? and if not that one , what other publication docs he refer to as having been got up by Alasons ? Fraternally and respectfully yours , JACOB NORTON . Boston , June 20 th .

QUERIES . To the Editor ofthe "Freemason . " Dear Sir and Brother , — Thc following questions have been put to mc lately , and perhaps some of the brethren will answer them , if thc hot weather docs not prevent such an effort :

1 . Is it right for a Prov . G . R . A . Officer to wear his collar of office in a Craft lodge ? 2 . Should not Grand Lodge appoint a Deputy Registrar and Deputy Superintendent of Works , as the number of Grand Officers is still out of all proportion to the increase in the number of lodges , and wc can well dispense with thc

" Trumpeter" ? 3 . How is it that nearly all Provincial Grand Lodges charge from ios . Gd . to 15 s . for their banquets , except in Aliddlesex , when for Craft , Alark , or Arch , the charge is £ 1 is ., even for a cold collation ? Yours fratcrnallv . OBSERVER .

A BLUNDER ON A BLUNDER . To Ihe Editor of the " Freemason . " Dear Sir and Brother , — By an amusingly repeated printer's error , in some strange way editorially overlooked , my correction of last week remains a blunder still , as regards my original

biter . The original words as printed are " subsidiary of tantamount , " which are a misprint for "subsidiary if tantamount , " and not vice versA , as the last issue of the Freemason most amusingly if provokingly perpetuates and retains . Yours fraternally , LEX LATOMICA .

LADIES AT AIASONIC BANQUETS . To the Editor of the "Freemason . '' Dear Sir and Brother , — In your publication of the gth inst ., I note the remarks you say have been made to you in correspondence with reference to the admission of ladies occasionally to our

collations after Alasonic meetings . 1 have long been of opinion that it is our loss that ladies have not been invited to join us on such occasions as the banquets after meetings of Prov . Grand Lodge , I ' rov . Grand Chapter , & c , & c , and as far as my influence goes , I shall exert it to bring about that practice .

I have seen on such occasions ladies admitted to thc gallery to look at the "Lords ofthe Creation" dining , and to hear the speeches after—why should they not have been invited to have joined us at the banquet ? I hold that trie presence of ladies has ever an elevating and refining tendency , and I am sure you will agree with mc , there is

nothing to prevent our wives , daughters , sisters , or sweethearts joining us at our banquets . I am an old P . M . with a little experience of other Degrees , and remain , Yours fraternally , Aberystwith , inly 11 . EXCELSIOR .

Reviews.

Reviews .

THE MAGAZINES . " Scribncr " is , as usual , first rate , and wc hardly know which most to adnvrc , its literary articles , or its illustrative plates . ' 1 he following quaint and effective axioms of a certain negro preacher , the Rev . Gabe Tucker , deserve attention , we think , as they are full of living truisms and " Attic sail : "

" You may notch it on de palin ' s as a mighty resky plan In make your judgment b y de clu ' es dat kivers up a man ; I ' or 1 hardly needs to tell you how you often come cicross A fifty dollar . saddle en a twenty dollar boss . An' vyuhin' in de low-groun ' s , you diskiver , as you go , a uat de lines' shuck may hide de mcancs' nubbin in row

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" I think a man has got " a mighty " slender chance for Hebcn Dat holds on to his piety but one day out o' scben ; Dat talks about de sinners wid a heap o' solemn chat An' nebber draps a nickel in de missionary hat ; Dat ' s foremost in de mcetin' -house for raisin' all de chunes , But la \ -s aside his 'ligion with his Sunday pantaloons !

" I nebber judge o' people dat I meets along de way By de places whar dey come fum an' the houses whar dey stay ; For de bantam chicken ' s awful fond o' roostin' pretty high , An' de turkey-buzzard sails above dc eagle in de sky ; Dey catches little minners in de middle ob de sea , An' you finds de smalles' possums up the bigges' kind n' tree ! "

All the articles are worth reading . " Temple Bar" contains several most readable articles , and one novelette , most interesting , especiall y to our dear friends of the " softer sects , " "Cousin Felix . " It has been pronounced Ai by a select tea party of young women , married and single . "The Freres " supply also excellent reading .

"The Antiquary" is very good indeed , and serves to interest not a few zealous and energetic "Dryasdusts " with its memories and pictures of the old past . "All the Year Round . " For once our old friend is dullish and prosyish , and we think is suffering from the hot weather and the thunderstorm ; but still " Shurle Agra " is very touching . "Lady Deane" wc do not like . The

class magazines are now really " legion . " There is " Baily ' s , " for instance , and " The Squire " for our good friends in " Bceotia . " There are " Belgravia , " " London Society , " and "The Argosy " for lovers of fiction . Then "The Alagazineof Art "—a charming serial—is for artists . " Tlie Theatre" for thc admirers of the drama . It seems well and pointedly written . We have not seen " Blackwood , " or the " Fortnightly , "

or the "Cornhill , " or the " Queen , " or "A'lacmillan ' s , " or the " Gentleman ' s , " or the " Nineteenth Century , " or the "Atlantic Monthly , " or " Harper ' s . " For the young we can recommend " St . Nicholas , " published by the publisher of " Scribner ' s . " It is certainly , from its * own point of view , very " thorough . " Boys , too , have the " Boys'Own Paper" and the "Union jack ;" Girls , the "Girls' Own Paper . " Surely there must bc something in it .

The religious serials arc well to thc fore , whether wc take " Good Words , " or the " Sunday at Home , " or thc " Fireside , " or the " Monthly Packet , " the " Churchman ' s Shilling Magazine , " or the " Roman Catholic Month . " Wc have not seen the "Leisure Hour , " but it is generally good .

"The Welcome" is an admirable serial . We are struck with thc increase of so-called ladies' literature , though we cannot say we sec much good in it , except on one point , thc fashions , and for this our fair friends should consult " Le Follet" or the "Ladies' Gazette of Fashion , " or some one orothcrof those English and foreign monthl y journals which cater so successfully for this touchintr feminine taste .

The serial literature of the month is a serious tax on time and thought for those who really do think , and we cannot shut our eyes to the somewhat unsatisfactory and uneasy ground itcovers . However , " verbum sat sapienti . "

Masonic Notes And Queries.

Masonic Notes and Queries .

THE ROYAL ARCH . Ragon , in his " Orthodoxie Alaconnique , " p . 204 , makes the two following assertions . Can any Scottish or Irish brother throw any light upon them ? 1 . "The organic regulations of the Grand Lodge of Edinburgh , 173 G , made it known that several corporations which had this name as a distinctive title ( Royal Arch ) ,

such as the Royal Arch of Glasgow , in 1755 , the Royal Arch of Stirling in 1759 , when they applied to that Grand Lodge to obtain new constitutions . " Ragon had been saying that some authors made the English Royal Arch the same as the French Royal Arch , called Royal Arch of Enoch , or Knight of thc gth Arch , a portion of so-called Scottish Masonry , which had passed

from France to England . Of this assertion , however , so far we have no proof . 2 . As regards Ireland , Bro . Gould's researches have made it clear that Dermott was "initiated " and " crafted" and "raised" in Ireland , and obtained thence his Royal Arch Grade ( see a previous

communication in Freemason ); and what then does Ragon mean when he says that , in p . 13 , the Grand Lodge : of Ireland declared it knew nothing of the " Royal Arch " as such , and even proposed to censure Lord Donoughmore , G . AL , for seeking to carry out the wishes of thc Duke of Sussex in this respect ? What is the'historical reality or worth of such statements ? AIASONIC STUDENT .

THE GERMAN STEINAIET 7 . EN . Can any brother or fellow student point out to mc a work which deals accurately and realistically with thc connection between the operative German Masons and the speculative German Alasons ? I have seen several essays on the subject , but they all rest on an " ut dicitur , " or arc simple "sheepwalking . " Dr . Alarlow , in his "Geheimen Gebrauche and

Ceremonien der Alaurergcsellen , " Hamburg and Leipsic , iRGS , talks of the existence of certain bodies allowed by the state , which under the various names of " Zunft , Innu ng , Einung , Amt , Gaffel , Gilde , Gr'ilte , Zeche , Gewerb , and Bruderschalt , " belonged to various handwork trades in Germany .

lie gives us "inter aha a ballad , by W . I [ acker , on Der Heilige Bund der Maurer Gesellcn , the Holy Union of Alason Apprentices , and their form of Alasonry , in which there is not the slightest trace of Freemasonry to be found . The Crux , as regards thc German stonemasons is reproduced , no doubt , more or less in England ; that

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we have no traces of them after the 16 th century , and in the iSth century German Speculative Masonry from England comes to the fore . We have in England traces of Operative and Speculative Masons in the 17 th century , though they are few and far between . AIASONIC STUDENT .

A GERMAN AIASONIC BOOK . I have a German Alasonic book called " Geheimnisse der Freymaurer , " secrets ofthe Freemasons , without a printer's name , of date 17 C 6 , which contains our English ritual translated , and an " Einlcitung , " or " Introduction , " by a nameless brother . In this introduction two statements occur which I commend to the notice of Bros . Gould ,

Hughan , and others . The first is , that the idea of a Cosmopolitan Order took its idea from the Crusades and Crusaders , when men of " all nations" met together , and that Edward I . brought it back from the East—p . 2 . The second is , that when Kensington Palace was being built a mutiny of the Masons took place , ( page 4 ) , a rebellion having recently taken place in England , ' and that the commanders declared the Masons were alone free of all

punishment , because the commanders could not obtain these "loosungs wat" their" wort" practically . They then elected the Archbishop of Canterbury Grand Alaster , always keeping their " word . " I mention this because it shows how Alasonic history is written , and because I am anxious to know if any one can throw any light on this to me hopelessly unhistorical assertion . The hook otherwise has little worth , except as a sort of " quasi ritual" in 1766 , both English and German . ANTIQUARIUS .

The Keystone tells us that " Bro . George Carpenter , whose name stood next before Bro . and Gen . Oglethorpe's in the charter of the colony of Georgia , one of the first Trustees appointed by King George 11 ., and whose name one of the tithings of Savannah still bears , was Senior Grand Warden of the Grand Lodge of England in 1731 , thc very year that active preparations were made to found the colony of Georgia . " This is a fact for Bro . Gould . ANTIQUARIUS .

Consecration Of The Derwent Mark Lodge, No. 282.

CONSECRATION OF THE DERWENT MARK LODGE , No . 282 .

This new Mark Lodge , making the eighth in the Province of Cumberland and Westmoreland , was constituted and dedicated to Mark Masonry on Tuesday last , the 12 th inst . From the remarks of the Consecrating Officer below , it will be seen there is ample room for a Alark Lodge in the

flourishing town of Workington , and started under such favourable auspices it cannot do other than prosper . The petitioners , five in number , were Bros . T . Dixon , 151 ; Rev . E . M . Rice , M . A ., i 22 g ; and 1 . J . Coverdalc , J . Jenkinson , and J . J . Little ! 151 ; and the warrant was one of the first signed by thc recently-installed Grand Master , Lord Henniker .

Thc oflicers designate , it may be mentioned , are all P . AL's of the Sun and SectorLodgc , No . 9 G 2 , Workington . Original !}' , the Earl of Bective , ALP ., R . W . Provincial Grand Alaster , had intended to perform the ceremony of consecration ; but his lordship being unable to come so tar north , delegated the duty to Bro . W . F . Lamonby , P . M . oor , P . ft . ' ^ r . ^ -ri . fnr . f J

. J , . . -. w-v ........ J . At four o ' clock a lodge of M . M . M . 's was opened in the Alasonic Rooms , Portland-square , by the Consecrating Officer , with the following brethren in their several positions , as had previousl y been arranged , so as to ensure uniformity and precision in the working of thc ceremony of advancement : Bros . J . Nicholson , P . M . 151 , P . G . Treasurer , as S . W . j G . Dalrymple , P . M . 213 and 216 , P . G . J . W ., as J . W . ; f . H . Banks W . AL 151

, , P . G . J . O ., as AI . O . ; G . Sparrow , S . O . 213 , as S . O . 2 T . C . Robinson , AI . O . 22 g , as J . O . ; Rev . E . AI . Rice , ALA ., Chaplain 229 , as Chaplain ; T . Alason , Sec . 151 , as Sec . and R . M . j H . Peacock , S . O . 22 g , as S . D . ; W . Shilton , J . O . 22 g , as J . D . ; T . Weatherston , J . O . 151 , as I . G . ; and J . Hewson , Tyler 229 , P . G . Tyler , as Tyler . There were also present . Bros . G . Hayward , P . M . 60 ,

P . G . I . G ., of England ; J . Gardiner , P . M . 151 , P . P . G . J . W . ; W . H . Lewthwaite , 229 , P . P . G . Org . ; J . Cooper , 213 , P . G . Org . ; W . Paisley , J . D . 229 ; and others . A ballot for candidates was then taken as follows : Bros . W . Carlyle , P . AL 9 G 2 , and 1400 , P . G . Swd . Br . ; I . A . Salkeld , P . AL gGj ; J . Thompson , S . W . 962 ; K . J . Burrows , J . D . 9 G 2 ; J . Lewthwaite . I . G . g 6 * 3 ; I . Harding ,

Steward , gG- ; F . Paul , 9 G 2 ; W . Smith , 5 G 2 ; D . B . Winston , gG 2 ; and W . Wagg , gC 2 . All the candidates being in attendance , they were regularly advanced to the honourable Degree , the whole of the acting officers performing their respective parts like clockwork , with a telling effect rarely witnessed in any province . Thc ceremony of consecration was then commenced , and

the founders of the new lodge being arranged in order , the consecrating officer addressed the brethren . He referred to the popularity of the Mark Degree , as evinced by its striking increase , for it was only three years that very day since Faithful Lodge , No . 229 , was consecrated by theirlate lamented R . W . Deputy Provincial Grand Alaster , Colonel Whitwell , ALP ., and yet the number of the new lodge

about to bc consecrated was 2 S 2 . He next alluded to the circumstances which had brought about thc formation of the Derwent Lodge . As they all were aware , there were several brethren belonging to the Alark Degree in Workington , members principally of the Maryport Lodge , and these brethren not only found it inconvenient to attend their duties regularly , but there was thc substantial fact that

members of a Alasonic bod y in any other town than that of their residence were rarely called on to take office , whilst the chances of their ever reaching the highest honour of the chair were very remote indeed . That was of itself , a substantial reason wh y an independent Alark Lodge should be formed at Workington . Referring to Alasonry in

Workington , it was an extraordinary fact , that , although thc first lodge was opened in 1 7 G 2 , there was no evidence of any other than thc Craft Degrees beirg worked in the old town . The idea of introducing this new lodge , therefore , was of itself a direct compliment to the Alark Degree , and they would , one and all , sincerely hope it would prove a happy augury of success in the time to come . With the opening of the Derwent Lodge , there would be five Alark