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TO OUR READERS . The FREEMASON is a Weekly Newspaper , price AQ . It is published every Friday morning , and contains the most important , interesting , and useful information relating to Freemasonry in svery degree . Subscription , in eluding postage : United America , India , India , China , & c Kingdom , the Continent , & c . Via Brindisi . Twelve Months 10 s . bd . 12 s . od . 17 s . 4 d . Six „ 5 s . 3 d . 6 s . 6 d . 8 s . 8 d . Three „ is . 8 d . 3 s . 3 d . 4 s . 6 d . Subscriptions may be paid for in stamps , but Post Office Orders or Cheques are preferred , the former payable to GEORGE KENNING , CHIEF OFFICE , LONDON , the latter crossed London Joint Stock Bank . Advertisements and other business communications should be addressed to the Publisher . Communications on literary subjects and books for review are to be forwarded to the Editor . Anonymous correspondence will be wholly disregarded , and the return ^ rejected MSS . cannot be guaranteed . Further information will be supplied on application to the Publisher , 10 , 8 , Fleet-street , London .
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TO ADVERTISERS . lhe FREEMASON has a large circulation in all parts of the Globe , its advantages as an advertising medium can herefore scarcely be overrated . ADVERTISEMENTS to ensure insertion in current -week ' s issue should reach the Office , 198 , Fleet-street , by 12 o ' clock on Wednesdays . SCALE OF CHARGES FOR ADVERTISEMENTS . Whole of back page £ 12 12 o Half , ,, ... ... ... ... 6 10 o Inside pages ... ... ... ... 7 7 ° Half of ditto 400 Quarter fit to ... ... ... ... 2100 Whole column ... ... ... 2 10 o Half „ ... ... ... ... 1 10 o Quarter „ ... ... ... ... ... 100 Per inch' ... ... ... ... ... 040 These prices are ' for single insertions . A liberal reduction is made tor a series of 13 , 26 , and 52 insertions . Fuithir particulars may be obtained of the Publisher , 198 , Fleet-street , London .
Answers To Correspondents.
Answers to Correspondents .
Z . —H . R . H . became Grand Master upon thc resignation of thc Marquis of Kipon , on the 2 nd of Sept ., 1 S 74 , though hc was not installed into that oflice until the 28 th of April of the following year . P . M . —Yes , the Hon . Mrs . Aldworth , of Newmarket , County Cork . It is said that she was initiated in the year 1739 , at about the age of 19 . Oxronn . —No report had reached us .
ENQUIRER . — lhe Christmas number of the Masonic Magazine will be published Dec . 15 . You can order it of any bookseller , or a copy may be obtained direct from the office for 14 penny stamp ? . ELEYCIB . —Letter and reply in our next . W . W . AUSTIN ( Indiana ) . —The Freemason has been sent from the office regulaily each week . If you will send to the publisher a list of those that have failed to reach you , duidicitc copies shall be sent at once .
BOOKS & c , RECEIVED . " Hull Packet ; " "House Surgeon or the Doctor at Home ; " "Hornet ; " " Citizen ; " "London Express ;" " Broad Arrow , " "City Press ; " " Risorgimento ;" " Corner Stone ; " "Masonic Monthly ; " "Cincinnati
Commercial ; " " Bauhuttc ; " " La Voz de Hiram ; " " Touchstone ; " " Grand Lodge of New South Wales , Manifesto ;" " New York Dispatch ; " " Spalding Free Press ; " " I lebrew Leader . " " Loomis' Musical and Masonic Journal ; " " Mix't with Magic ; " " Masonic Review . "
Births, Marriages And Deaths.
Births , Marriages and Deaths .
BIR IIIS . CHILD . —On the 18 th inst ., at llolland-villas-road , W ., the wife of J . Child , of a daughter . LIMERICK . —On the 16 th inst ., at Quecn's-gate-terrace , South Kensington , the Countess of Limerick , of a
daughter . LOCKVER . —On the 17 th inst ., at Deptford , the wife of G . Lockyer , solicitor , of a son . VAUGHAN . —On the 19 th inst ., at Wilton-crescent , the wife of E . M . Vaughan , Esq ., of a son .
DEATHS . BURROW . —On the 19 th ins :., at Southwark-bridge-road , Ellen , daughter ot Edmund and Emma Burrow , aged six years . CALDWELL . —On the 17 th inst ., at Audley-squarc ,
Charlotte L- 'Uf-a , daughter of lhe late C . A . Caldwell , Esq ., New Grange , county Meath . COULSON . —On the i 8 ( h inst ., Alfred Harvest Cou'son , late of Mildmay-road , in his 6 istyear . THOMAS . — 10 th inst ., at Grove Park . Lee , Kint , EJith Constance , vsite of L . W . Thomas .
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THEFREEMASON, SATURDAY , NOVEMBER 23 , 1878 .
Freemasonry In France.
FREEMASONRY IN FRANCE .
•Bro . Dowsonasked us a question in our last im . pression , we venture to seek , to reply to it to-day . We can only say in response to his invitaion and query combined , that true Cosmopolitan Freemasonry requires absolutely a reverential acknowledgement of T . G . A . O . T . U . Without such
acknowledgement any profession of so-called Masonry ceases to be Freemasonry true and Freemasonry proper , and is nothing but a secret association , a bastard imitation of a legitimate and benevolent Fraternity . French Freemasonry , —which drew its " vital breath" from England ,
—until late years , always professed openly and systematically , theoretically and practically , belief in T . G . A . O . T . U . In fact its dogmata and its ceremonies were offshoots of English Craft Masonry , " pur et simple , " nothing more and nothing less . The innovations of Ramsay and Co ., and the
fantastic developments of countless and childish " Hautes Grades " affected , no doubt , the better , truer teachings of original Craft Masonry about 130 years ago in France , an J what was called " Adonhiramite Masonry , " at one time greatly infected , and still infects , more or less , the theory
and practice of French Freemasonry The French Revolution closed the doors of the French lodges , and when they revived after the " Reign of Terror , " and thc " Grande Loge" of Fiance and the " Grand Orient" became one body , the teaching was still undoubtedly , practically on
the whole , with some national differences , identical with that of English Craft Masonry , This state of affairs continued until 13 . 30 , when the " old order of things " appears to have changed , and from that time downwards , French Freemasonry has passed through many and fiery
vicissitudes , has oscillated between contending parties , has been made the sport of " factions , " and even the "tool" of the " Commune , " until it has now placed itself almost out of the acknowledgement and fraternity of all loyal Freemasons . There is , however , this difference theoretically , as between
the Grand Orient of France , and the Grand Conseil of the " Rite Ecossais , '' that whereas in the former Freemasonry is utterly revolutionized and transformed from its old religious , peaceful , nonpolitical character , under the " Rite Ecossais " T . G . A . O . T . U . is still acknowledged , though as " invocations " are not admitted , and the "Bible "
has disappeared , we fear that , as the Congress of Geneva made too plain , its acknowledgemeat of God , as we understand such acknowledgement , is a form without life and reality , and nothing more . They only mean a " Principe Createur , " not a personal God . We are not surprized that Bro . Dowson finds little difference between the
two systems , and passing * over the great anomaly of a High Grade Conseil granting warrants for Craft Degrees , we will merely add , for Bro . Dowson ' s information , that the whole of the earlier French Masonic literature abounds in agree ment , practically and consistently , nay , almost
entirely with our English teaching , and that there is no one French writer of any Masonic authority or repute who supports the views of those who would denude French Masonic teaching and French Masonic ritual , of the reverent acknowledgment of T . G . A . O . T . U .
The Literary Wants Of Freemasonry.
THE LITERARY WANTS OF FREEMASONRY .
We pointed out in . our last impression , as is undoubtedly the case , that Masonic literature did not , unfortunately , receivethesupportit merited in England , but yet it may be well to remind ourselves that such a condition of things is not pecu . liar to English Masonry . In other jurisdictions
the complaint is the same , and the suppoit received , and the sympathy expressed have been even less . In America , for instance , with its 600 , oco Masons , we hardly take tip a Masonic periodical without a somewhat similar lamenting allegation , and we fancy , that the same state of tilings exists alike in France and Germany , Ireland and Scot-
The Literary Wants Of Freemasonry.
land . Indeed , we know that it is so . Whence then , this lukewarmness ? this backwardness ' this want of appreciation of the utility and benefit of Masonic literature r If , ( as we fear it must be conceded to the critical and caustic ) , a good deal of this apathy may be directly traceable to
the want of thorough high-class Masonic litera - ture , to that reckless personality , which too often marks Masonic columns , and , perhaps , to the unavoidable and pressing competition of profane serial literature , jet , we cannot help thinking that much may be not unjustly ascribed to our
brethren and our lodges . For we think it not too much to say , that as a rule , Masonic literature is , after all , discountenanced and discouraged . Much of this state of things , this fact of neglect , is caused by so many lodges meeting in rooms and taverns , where no provision
is made for keeping a lodge library , and where such a useful appendage to a lodge is an utter impossibility . But we fear that beyond this there lies , so to say , a great " undiscovered country " of Masonic indifference , "fallow ground , " which we should like to "break up " and bring
into cultivation . We feel sure that much good would accrue to Masonry if lodges were more extensively to create and keep up lodge libraries , and if our brethren would sometimes bear in mind that Masonic literature , like all other literature , needs encouragement , and as we believe ,
merits patronage . We have often felt that our lodge meetings might be made all the more intellectual aud more attractive to all , if all good brethren knew as much of the archaeology , and history , and philosophy of Freemasonry as they do . of its ceremonial , and we are ceitain that we
do not eir when we press on our readers the advisability and duty , as educated Masons , cultivated members of our Order , as well as of society , to pay some little attention to the long neglected study of Masonic literature . If Kloss ' s invaluable " Bibliographic * ' were continued to 1878 , instead of 6000 works , it would , we think ,
be close upon 7000 , or even more , and as the subject is interesting in itself , we shall recur to the history of Masonic Bibliography next week , as suggestive of much that may instruct , inform , and edify our many friendly readers . Let us hope to see a more general appreciation Masonically of Masonic literature .
A New Joke.
A NEW JOKE .
That eminent statesman , Mr . Gladstone , has been delivering himself of a new , though harmless , little joke , about our Order , in a speech he delivered at Chester on November nth . The Morning Post of November 12 th thus reports his words , when speaking about " Secret Societies . "
" He rejoiced that in our own case there were no such things as secret societies in this country , or if there were they were only societies with a little harmless executive secrecy like the Freemasons , merely to tickle people ' s curiosity , to enable them to imagine that there is something
very great and very interesting and very wonderful , the knowledge of which they would gain if they were admitted into the society . ( Hear , hear , and laughter . ) He did not anticipate much mischief from them . " ( A laugh ) . Passing over the joke , which certainly seems of the mildest , and
people must , we think , be very ready to laugh , if they can laugh at it , we should like to know why Mr . Gladstone should expect any" mischief "from us Freemasons or from Freemasonry . It is quite clear that Mr . Gladstone knows nothing about English Freemasonry , or he would be
aware , that a more loyal order does not exist , or one that more deliberately and distinctly disavows , all " secret conspiracies" against the government of the country . Indeed in all lands , if Freemasonry is true to its teaching and its mission , it is the friend of order and law and peace , and the
opponent of revolution , anarchy and tumults of every kind . Perhaps Mr . Gladstone does not know that by the " Seditious Societies Act " of 1 799 , Section 5 , " nothing in the act" is to " extend " to " Lodges of Freemasons . " The
Masonic body is thus fully recognized , and meets legally and peacefully and loyally ever , under the great . / Egis ot the good constitutional laws of England ! At this moment , the Prince of Wales is at its head , two of his royal brothels arc hiq h in
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Ad00606
TO OUR READERS . The FREEMASON is a Weekly Newspaper , price AQ . It is published every Friday morning , and contains the most important , interesting , and useful information relating to Freemasonry in svery degree . Subscription , in eluding postage : United America , India , India , China , & c Kingdom , the Continent , & c . Via Brindisi . Twelve Months 10 s . bd . 12 s . od . 17 s . 4 d . Six „ 5 s . 3 d . 6 s . 6 d . 8 s . 8 d . Three „ is . 8 d . 3 s . 3 d . 4 s . 6 d . Subscriptions may be paid for in stamps , but Post Office Orders or Cheques are preferred , the former payable to GEORGE KENNING , CHIEF OFFICE , LONDON , the latter crossed London Joint Stock Bank . Advertisements and other business communications should be addressed to the Publisher . Communications on literary subjects and books for review are to be forwarded to the Editor . Anonymous correspondence will be wholly disregarded , and the return ^ rejected MSS . cannot be guaranteed . Further information will be supplied on application to the Publisher , 10 , 8 , Fleet-street , London .
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TO ADVERTISERS . lhe FREEMASON has a large circulation in all parts of the Globe , its advantages as an advertising medium can herefore scarcely be overrated . ADVERTISEMENTS to ensure insertion in current -week ' s issue should reach the Office , 198 , Fleet-street , by 12 o ' clock on Wednesdays . SCALE OF CHARGES FOR ADVERTISEMENTS . Whole of back page £ 12 12 o Half , ,, ... ... ... ... 6 10 o Inside pages ... ... ... ... 7 7 ° Half of ditto 400 Quarter fit to ... ... ... ... 2100 Whole column ... ... ... 2 10 o Half „ ... ... ... ... 1 10 o Quarter „ ... ... ... ... ... 100 Per inch' ... ... ... ... ... 040 These prices are ' for single insertions . A liberal reduction is made tor a series of 13 , 26 , and 52 insertions . Fuithir particulars may be obtained of the Publisher , 198 , Fleet-street , London .
Answers To Correspondents.
Answers to Correspondents .
Z . —H . R . H . became Grand Master upon thc resignation of thc Marquis of Kipon , on the 2 nd of Sept ., 1 S 74 , though hc was not installed into that oflice until the 28 th of April of the following year . P . M . —Yes , the Hon . Mrs . Aldworth , of Newmarket , County Cork . It is said that she was initiated in the year 1739 , at about the age of 19 . Oxronn . —No report had reached us .
ENQUIRER . — lhe Christmas number of the Masonic Magazine will be published Dec . 15 . You can order it of any bookseller , or a copy may be obtained direct from the office for 14 penny stamp ? . ELEYCIB . —Letter and reply in our next . W . W . AUSTIN ( Indiana ) . —The Freemason has been sent from the office regulaily each week . If you will send to the publisher a list of those that have failed to reach you , duidicitc copies shall be sent at once .
BOOKS & c , RECEIVED . " Hull Packet ; " "House Surgeon or the Doctor at Home ; " "Hornet ; " " Citizen ; " "London Express ;" " Broad Arrow , " "City Press ; " " Risorgimento ;" " Corner Stone ; " "Masonic Monthly ; " "Cincinnati
Commercial ; " " Bauhuttc ; " " La Voz de Hiram ; " " Touchstone ; " " Grand Lodge of New South Wales , Manifesto ;" " New York Dispatch ; " " Spalding Free Press ; " " I lebrew Leader . " " Loomis' Musical and Masonic Journal ; " " Mix't with Magic ; " " Masonic Review . "
Births, Marriages And Deaths.
Births , Marriages and Deaths .
BIR IIIS . CHILD . —On the 18 th inst ., at llolland-villas-road , W ., the wife of J . Child , of a daughter . LIMERICK . —On the 16 th inst ., at Quecn's-gate-terrace , South Kensington , the Countess of Limerick , of a
daughter . LOCKVER . —On the 17 th inst ., at Deptford , the wife of G . Lockyer , solicitor , of a son . VAUGHAN . —On the 19 th inst ., at Wilton-crescent , the wife of E . M . Vaughan , Esq ., of a son .
DEATHS . BURROW . —On the 19 th ins :., at Southwark-bridge-road , Ellen , daughter ot Edmund and Emma Burrow , aged six years . CALDWELL . —On the 17 th inst ., at Audley-squarc ,
Charlotte L- 'Uf-a , daughter of lhe late C . A . Caldwell , Esq ., New Grange , county Meath . COULSON . —On the i 8 ( h inst ., Alfred Harvest Cou'son , late of Mildmay-road , in his 6 istyear . THOMAS . — 10 th inst ., at Grove Park . Lee , Kint , EJith Constance , vsite of L . W . Thomas .
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THEFREEMASON, SATURDAY , NOVEMBER 23 , 1878 .
Freemasonry In France.
FREEMASONRY IN FRANCE .
•Bro . Dowsonasked us a question in our last im . pression , we venture to seek , to reply to it to-day . We can only say in response to his invitaion and query combined , that true Cosmopolitan Freemasonry requires absolutely a reverential acknowledgement of T . G . A . O . T . U . Without such
acknowledgement any profession of so-called Masonry ceases to be Freemasonry true and Freemasonry proper , and is nothing but a secret association , a bastard imitation of a legitimate and benevolent Fraternity . French Freemasonry , —which drew its " vital breath" from England ,
—until late years , always professed openly and systematically , theoretically and practically , belief in T . G . A . O . T . U . In fact its dogmata and its ceremonies were offshoots of English Craft Masonry , " pur et simple , " nothing more and nothing less . The innovations of Ramsay and Co ., and the
fantastic developments of countless and childish " Hautes Grades " affected , no doubt , the better , truer teachings of original Craft Masonry about 130 years ago in France , an J what was called " Adonhiramite Masonry , " at one time greatly infected , and still infects , more or less , the theory
and practice of French Freemasonry The French Revolution closed the doors of the French lodges , and when they revived after the " Reign of Terror , " and thc " Grande Loge" of Fiance and the " Grand Orient" became one body , the teaching was still undoubtedly , practically on
the whole , with some national differences , identical with that of English Craft Masonry , This state of affairs continued until 13 . 30 , when the " old order of things " appears to have changed , and from that time downwards , French Freemasonry has passed through many and fiery
vicissitudes , has oscillated between contending parties , has been made the sport of " factions , " and even the "tool" of the " Commune , " until it has now placed itself almost out of the acknowledgement and fraternity of all loyal Freemasons . There is , however , this difference theoretically , as between
the Grand Orient of France , and the Grand Conseil of the " Rite Ecossais , '' that whereas in the former Freemasonry is utterly revolutionized and transformed from its old religious , peaceful , nonpolitical character , under the " Rite Ecossais " T . G . A . O . T . U . is still acknowledged , though as " invocations " are not admitted , and the "Bible "
has disappeared , we fear that , as the Congress of Geneva made too plain , its acknowledgemeat of God , as we understand such acknowledgement , is a form without life and reality , and nothing more . They only mean a " Principe Createur , " not a personal God . We are not surprized that Bro . Dowson finds little difference between the
two systems , and passing * over the great anomaly of a High Grade Conseil granting warrants for Craft Degrees , we will merely add , for Bro . Dowson ' s information , that the whole of the earlier French Masonic literature abounds in agree ment , practically and consistently , nay , almost
entirely with our English teaching , and that there is no one French writer of any Masonic authority or repute who supports the views of those who would denude French Masonic teaching and French Masonic ritual , of the reverent acknowledgment of T . G . A . O . T . U .
The Literary Wants Of Freemasonry.
THE LITERARY WANTS OF FREEMASONRY .
We pointed out in . our last impression , as is undoubtedly the case , that Masonic literature did not , unfortunately , receivethesupportit merited in England , but yet it may be well to remind ourselves that such a condition of things is not pecu . liar to English Masonry . In other jurisdictions
the complaint is the same , and the suppoit received , and the sympathy expressed have been even less . In America , for instance , with its 600 , oco Masons , we hardly take tip a Masonic periodical without a somewhat similar lamenting allegation , and we fancy , that the same state of tilings exists alike in France and Germany , Ireland and Scot-
The Literary Wants Of Freemasonry.
land . Indeed , we know that it is so . Whence then , this lukewarmness ? this backwardness ' this want of appreciation of the utility and benefit of Masonic literature r If , ( as we fear it must be conceded to the critical and caustic ) , a good deal of this apathy may be directly traceable to
the want of thorough high-class Masonic litera - ture , to that reckless personality , which too often marks Masonic columns , and , perhaps , to the unavoidable and pressing competition of profane serial literature , jet , we cannot help thinking that much may be not unjustly ascribed to our
brethren and our lodges . For we think it not too much to say , that as a rule , Masonic literature is , after all , discountenanced and discouraged . Much of this state of things , this fact of neglect , is caused by so many lodges meeting in rooms and taverns , where no provision
is made for keeping a lodge library , and where such a useful appendage to a lodge is an utter impossibility . But we fear that beyond this there lies , so to say , a great " undiscovered country " of Masonic indifference , "fallow ground , " which we should like to "break up " and bring
into cultivation . We feel sure that much good would accrue to Masonry if lodges were more extensively to create and keep up lodge libraries , and if our brethren would sometimes bear in mind that Masonic literature , like all other literature , needs encouragement , and as we believe ,
merits patronage . We have often felt that our lodge meetings might be made all the more intellectual aud more attractive to all , if all good brethren knew as much of the archaeology , and history , and philosophy of Freemasonry as they do . of its ceremonial , and we are ceitain that we
do not eir when we press on our readers the advisability and duty , as educated Masons , cultivated members of our Order , as well as of society , to pay some little attention to the long neglected study of Masonic literature . If Kloss ' s invaluable " Bibliographic * ' were continued to 1878 , instead of 6000 works , it would , we think ,
be close upon 7000 , or even more , and as the subject is interesting in itself , we shall recur to the history of Masonic Bibliography next week , as suggestive of much that may instruct , inform , and edify our many friendly readers . Let us hope to see a more general appreciation Masonically of Masonic literature .
A New Joke.
A NEW JOKE .
That eminent statesman , Mr . Gladstone , has been delivering himself of a new , though harmless , little joke , about our Order , in a speech he delivered at Chester on November nth . The Morning Post of November 12 th thus reports his words , when speaking about " Secret Societies . "
" He rejoiced that in our own case there were no such things as secret societies in this country , or if there were they were only societies with a little harmless executive secrecy like the Freemasons , merely to tickle people ' s curiosity , to enable them to imagine that there is something
very great and very interesting and very wonderful , the knowledge of which they would gain if they were admitted into the society . ( Hear , hear , and laughter . ) He did not anticipate much mischief from them . " ( A laugh ) . Passing over the joke , which certainly seems of the mildest , and
people must , we think , be very ready to laugh , if they can laugh at it , we should like to know why Mr . Gladstone should expect any" mischief "from us Freemasons or from Freemasonry . It is quite clear that Mr . Gladstone knows nothing about English Freemasonry , or he would be
aware , that a more loyal order does not exist , or one that more deliberately and distinctly disavows , all " secret conspiracies" against the government of the country . Indeed in all lands , if Freemasonry is true to its teaching and its mission , it is the friend of order and law and peace , and the
opponent of revolution , anarchy and tumults of every kind . Perhaps Mr . Gladstone does not know that by the " Seditious Societies Act " of 1 799 , Section 5 , " nothing in the act" is to " extend " to " Lodges of Freemasons . " The
Masonic body is thus fully recognized , and meets legally and peacefully and loyally ever , under the great . / Egis ot the good constitutional laws of England ! At this moment , the Prince of Wales is at its head , two of his royal brothels arc hiq h in