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Now ready , with Index and Preface , in Twelve Imperial Folio Pails , 5 s . each , or bound in one handsome volume , £ 3 . THE FREEMASONS' LIBER MUSICUS , Dedicated by express permission to H . R . H . Tllli PRINCE OF W . ALES , Past Giand Master of England and Wales . Edited by DR . WILUAM SPAHK , l' . P . G . O ., W . Y . —298 . This Work contains 215 pp . and 118 Musical Compositions suitable for all the Ceiemonics of the Masonic Onfer ; Firs-t , Second , and Third Decrees ; Consecration and Dedication of Malls and Lodges ; Programmes , Toasts , Song's , Tiios , Choruses , & c ., for Banquets and other Festive Gatherings ; Laying Foundation or Corner Stones ; Installation ; Mark Masonry ; ltoyal Arch ; Masonic Funerals ; Voluntaries ; Marches , & c , & a Notice from the Evening Mail . * ' Our Masonic readers arc no strangers lo ilic name of Yiro . William Spark , the talented musician and Organist of the Town Hall , Leeds . In this really great work , now completed , Dr . Spark , has shown his great tact ami jmlgmen hy completing and compiling for the Masonic brethren a complete library of musical , compositions of the choicer Knglislt and loreign works , ancient , traditional , moilern , vocal , and instrumental , by the best composers . It comprises . Masonic anthems , installation ode * , dedication music , responses , opening , closing , and intermediate music ( or all degrees , Thanksgivings , funeral oiles , marches , songs , duets , bampiet music , programmes , voluntaries , and general mu .-ical directions , arranged lor voices and organ , pianoforte , or harmonium . "'Ihe l iccmn <(> n * ' 1-ibcr Musicus " is issued with the concurrence of many influential Masonic Lodges , and under the distinguished patronage and support of the Most Worshipful the Grand MasK-rs of 1-lngland , Wales , Scotland , and Ireland . It forms a complete library oi the choicest and rarest-Masonic music , in aword . it is indi .-pen * abl J to all Masonic lodges . The worthy limit ) r editor , motemvr , has had the valuable co-oi > er ; ition and assistance of the most distinguished and experienced composers and organists , members of the Craft . It is brought out in the highest style of art , is printed from large engraved music plates , and forms a very handsome folio volume of * nearly two hundred and twenty pages ! " It deserves the patronage of every Masonic Lodge , both at home and abroad , and for its ineiits aloiie it ought to be zealously pri / cd by every brother . As a present to a lodge , nothing could be more useful , valuable , and appropriate . HANDSOME CLOTH COVERS , with gilt lines , and lettered , for Binding ( similar to those used for the Graphic and Illustrated AV / tw ) , price 5 s . each . LONDON : GEORGE KENNING , lyS , Fleet-street .

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Second Edition , Now Ready , 1 / 6 . A MASONIC MUSICAL SERVICE . In the key of C . for A ,, 'I ' ., ' 1 ' ., 15 . Opening and Closing Odes . Craft Ceremonies , ltoyal Arch Ceremony . Consecration Ceremony . Grace before and after Meat , COMPOSED BV DU . J . C . BAKEU , NO . 241 . LONDON . —Geo . Kenning , 198 , Fleet-slieet ; and 1 , 2 , anJ 3 , Little Britain . „ H . Spencer , 26 , Great Qucen-strcet . LIVERPOOL . —Geo . Kenning , 2 , Mor . ument-plaee . MANCIIESTEII . —li . Henry & Co ., 30 , Deansgate . OUUMN . —C . Hcdgelong , 26 , Gtafton-slrect GLASGOW . —Geo . Kenning , 145 , Argyle-street .

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THE MARK MASONS' SONG . " COME , BRETHREN , OF THE MYSTIC TIE . " Dedicated by permission to the Uight Hon . tlie Earl Percy , M . P ., 30 , Uight Worshipful Provincial Grand Master of Freemasons fur Noithumbeiland . Most Worshipful Grand Mark Mastei Mason of England . Wolds b y Bio . ' ]' . Burdetr Veoman , Original Maik Lodge No . 1 ., composed by Bio . flcniy Parker , Original Alark LodgcNo . 1 . Ofiice , 108 . i'lcet-strett .

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The Freemason , SATURDAY , J 2 OTU , 1874 .

New Lodges.

NEW LODGES .

We were present at the dedication of a new lodge on Wednesday , the nth inst . ( the Athenasum , No . 1491 , Camden-road ) , of which a condensed report appeared in our last

impression , and as some thoughts seemed to force themselves upon our mind , during the interesting ceremonies of the day , we think it well to take our many readers into confidence , and

impart them , with their fraternal permission , to all who peruse our pages to-day . Independently of the fact that the ceremony , always most edifying , was most ably performed by ouv

distinguished Bro . John Hervey , our much valued and much respected Grand Secretary , assisted by that " facile princeps " of all ritual work , Bro . Fenn , and by Bros . Buss and Little , we

were rejoiced to see so many well-known members of our Craft assembled , including the ever genial presence of Bro . Joseph Smith , and the Secretaries of our three great charitable

institutions . The new Master is a most worth y and energetic Mason , and he is supported by an array of excellent officers , mostly Past Masters , we observed , and with the promise of several

well-known Masons and young brethren as joining members , everything appears to augur well for the future prosperity of the Athenaeum Lodge . One consideration came before us very

strikingly , during the day ' s proceedings , namely , the onward progress of Fieemasonry . Each weekly Freemason that we read tells us of new lodges springing up , in different parts of our

land , and go where we will we see some statel y building , which we are told is the Freemasons ' lodge . We say nothing of the grammatical use of the word lodge . We only state the fact—a

very remarkable one it is for the reflecting Mason—that English F ' reemasonry has practically doubled the number of its lodges during the last quarter of a century , and despite the

tast accession of new lodges in our long extended roll , " the cry is still they come . " Indeed , we do not see at present any possible limit to the expansiveness and elasticity of our English

system . Now this great increase of Masonic lodges proves two things , we think , incontestabl y < The one is , that Freemasonry is , in itself a

want for the age in which we live . It is a very remarkable fact , that , in this prying and bustling age , in which everything seems to be sacrified to the dust , and dirt , and turmoil of

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public life , an institution so peculiar and so unobtrusive , so much averse to open recognition , and so difficult of access , should be popular with all classes of society . And yet the seciet of such

a want and of such popular appreciation is , we think , not hard to rind . Freemasonry may have its frailties and its defects , like everything else , that , is earthly or human , but Freemasonry has this

great recommendation—it is a neutral ground for us all—an open platform on which the most differing and the most distant may happily meet together in peace and goodwill , a little

green oasis in this arid wilderness 01 toil and strife , in which the genial , and the friendly , and the tolerant and the true , and the scholar and the statesman / may find alike rest for their bodies

and refreshment for their minds . Many of us , who day by day are toiling at " the forum" or in the counting house , in the senate or in the camp , or are labouring as bread winners , by the

energy of their brains , to cheer and sustain those nearest and dearest to them , can find in Freemasonry , many an hour of intellectual improvement , many a season of faithful work , many a

pleasant moment of social relaxation . Around the portals of our lodges and on the pediments of our stately halls , seem still engraved , in words of light , that good old English motto "Friendship ,

Goodwill , and Brotherly love . " For there we all can gladly icsort , after the toils of the busy day are over . There wheT * we meet once within the lodge , the divisions and the separations of social

political and denominational life end , for there the echoes of political war cries do not penetrate and there the acrinrony of sectarian controversy is unknown . So despite all our boasted

publicity of life and thought and ways and words to day , the tyled lodge room of us " Ancient , Free and Accepted Masons , '' has a great attraction for many a wandering and weary child of

earth . And again Freemasonry is recognized as a medium of doing good . The old idea was , that we were a club of good fellows , a convivial and benevolent Order , whose very best aspiration

was a good dinner , and whose chief qualification was a Masonic speech . But now we , like others have "Jived down" the ancient jest or the childish calumny , andean point with laudable pride

to our charitable institutions and benevolent endeavours , our institutions which emulate , if they do not excel any similar ones in the land , and so many of the public are beginning to believe ,

what we have long proclaimed in our good old formularies , that the chief characteristic of a Freemason ' s heart is charity . Each new lodge , then , that we found to-day

is meant to be a centre of light , friendship , toleration , and charity to its members . From it , we trust , some rays of brightness may fall on many of our fellow men . And if , alas

it be true , that all things here are at , the best but ephemeral and transitory , that , they fade like the dying flower , and pass like some pageant of the day , yet kt us hope , that , from the

crumbling fragment of many an earthly lodge , there may emanate a spirit of truth , and love , and loyalty , and benevolence , which shall outlive

both the mateiiai fabric and the earthly members , and be perpetuated in a happier scene of perfected knowledge , of undimmed light , and of eternal love .