Contents.

CONTENTS .

LJADIRS jij provincial Grand Lodge of Worcestershire j" 8 provincial Grand Mark Lodge of Cheshire J 18 Provincial Grand Lodge of New York under the "Ancients "—( Continued ) 51 S An Important Work 519

Freemasonry in France 519 Old Warrants . —1 520 The History of the Royal Masonic Institution for Girls from its Origin , 1788 , to its Centenary , 1888—( . Continued ) 520 IL 3 v . t ... ^ .. « . j , - " \~ 1

^ Board of Benevolence 521 Freemasonry in Cornwall 531 Address by Bro . B . L . Barnett , D . D . G . M ., at the Dedication of the New Masonic Hall , Brisbane 521 Queensland 531

CORRESPONDENCE" Ars Quatuor Coronatorum . " 522 A Freemason's Tombstone 523 Masonic Charities 523 The Only Lady Freemason $ 23 The Revelation of the Shechinah 533

REPORTS OF MASONIC MEETINGSCraft Masonry 523 Instruction 526 Royal Arch 527 Instruction 527

Mark Masonry 527 Masonic Presentation at Hayle 527 Obituary 527 Masonic and General Tidings 528 Lodge Meetings for Next Week iii .

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THE " Anglo-American Lodge , under the genial rule of the The Grand b 6 s Master of Masonic veteran , Bro . BRACKSTONE BAKER , P . G . D ., & c , is Maryland . . .,,... . . doing good service in prominently bringing into notice the

cosmopolitan character of Freemasonry ; more especially in relation to our brethren across the " big pond . " One of the most enjoyable meetings in connection with the department of the lodge work was held on Tuesday last , when a very hearty reception was tendered to M . W . Bro . THOS . J . SHRYOCK ,

G . Master of Maryland . Although the distinguished guest is the youngest G . M . in the United States , he has already become one of the foremost Masons of that great country , and has been , and still is , one of the most generous supporters of Masonic literature it has been our pleasure ever to enumerate . Greatly owing to his lavish aid ,

the proceedings of the Grand Lodge of Maryland for upwards of a century are being reprinted , under the able editorship of Bro . SCHULTZ , and as Grand Master , Bro . SHRYOCK has had two fine medals struck , one being commemorative of the 200 th assembly of the Grand Lodge , and the other of its Centennial . We extend to the M . W . Bro . T . J . SHRYOCK our hearty

greeting on visiting our country , and can assure him of a most fraternrl reception wherever he may visit , and whenever he can attend any of our lodge meetings . We are pleased to learn that our distinguished brother is to be the guest of the Eboracum Lodge , No . 1611 , Yotk , on Monday next , when Bro . WHYTEHEAD will read a Masonic Paper . The W . M . and officers of the York Lodge , No . 236 , have accepted an invitation to be present .

IT is evident from the report we publish in another part of our Worcestershire c ° l umns that Freemasonry in Worcestershire , under the auspices of its present popular Chief , R . W . Bro . Sir E . A . H . LECHMERE , Bart ., M . P ., is doing admirably . The annual meeting of the

Prov . G . Lodge at Halesowen , on the 14 th inst ., was very numerously attended , and the proceedings , brief as they were comparatively , passed off amid great enthusiasm . The reports on the condition of the Craft in the Province were highly satisfactory , while the brethren took the opportunity of evincing their loyalty to the throne by voting an address of congratulation to

her MAJESTY on the occasion of her Jubilee celebration . Divine service in the parish church formed part of the day ' s arrangements , and in the evening over 100 brethren sat down to banquet in the Drill Hall , the chair being occupied by the PROV . G . MASTER . We are much pleased at the success of this meeting . Freemasonry under its present ruler has

made marvellous strides in this small but compact Province . It has gone even beyond its strength—if we compare it numerically with other Provinces—in its support of our Charitable Institutions , and it has played a very conspicuous and commendable part in its encouragement of Masonic literature , and the study in an especial degree of everything relating

0 Masonic archeology . It is , in fact , among the best ordered of our rovinces , and the brethren , who are strongly imbued with the true spirit of asonry , lose no opportunity of doing all they can to promote its welfare .

^ e congratulate Bro . Sir E . A . H . LECHMERE on being the ruler of such a fovince , and the Province on having so genial a . ruler ; and we trust the y may be far distant when an association so honourable to both , and so gratif ying to the Masonic body generally , shall be severed .

* # * Bro . Gould EyERY 0 NE Wl " sympathise with Bro . GOULD at the bare-Pir ates " 5 faCed outrage committed by a New York publishing firm of which he is the victim . It is to be regretted there is no

inter-• ° nal copyri ght which will prevent these piratical appropriations of the s of an English author ' s labours by unscrupulous American trades-» out as there is no law on the subject , there can be no remedy . ¦ * > however , makes this particular act of piracy the more glaring is the

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countenance given to it—we may almost venture to say the assistance rendered in perpretating it—by certain conspicuous members of the Masonic Fraternity in the United States , men who have the reputation of being themselves either writers of long standing or the friends and patrons of Masonic literature . We trust that the advertisement of this act of literary

piracy of which Bro . GOULD has so indignantly complained may turn out to be a misrepresentation of the circumstances so far as they relate to Bros . CARSON , DRUMMOND , and PARVIN , and that these brethren have had no more to do with robbing Bro . GOULD of the just reward of his labours than Bro . GOULD himself . It is bad enough to find that a work which it has cost

years of labour to write is being reproduced in the States without the author ' s sanction or authority , and that there is no international law to prevent it , but to find that three leading American Masons- are in league—as they are represented to be in the advertisement of the pirated edition—with the

robbers , and that a claim is advanced in their behalf of their having afforded the author assistance which he neither asked for nor received is an outrage on public decency with which we hope Bros . CARSON , DRUMMOND , and PARVIN are in a position to prove they have had nothing whatever to do .

• • WE in England are so apt to be engrossed with our own A w th ' business that but little time is allowed us for making ourselves acquainted with the doings of our Colonial lodges and

brethren . Yet the accounts which reach us periodically are enough to show that Freemasonry , as it is practised even in our remotest colonies , is scrupulously careful in all its proceedings , that the officers of lodges and District Grand Lodges must be thoroughly conversant with their duties , and that among the Craftsmen are many who in knowledge , ability , and

zeal will compare favourably with some of our most learned and expert brethren . We publish elsewhere an address delivered some time ago at the dedication of the new Masonic Hall in Brisbane , Queensland , by Bro . BARRON L . BARNETT , D . D . G . M ., and we call the attention of our readers to it more particularly , because it is so well-written , appropriate , and

even eloquent , The Queensland brethren must be proud in having in their midst so able and well-informed a brother , while , so far as we in this country can judge of those whom we know by name and repute only , we should imagine that among the brethren upon whom the

PRINCE of WALES , M . W . G . M ., was pleased to confer the rank and privileges of Past G . Officers of the United Grand Lodge of England , on the occasion of the Jubilee meeting in the Royal Albert Hall , there can be few worthier of such honour than Bro . B . L . BARNETT , now P . G . Deacon of England , as well as D . D . G . M . Queensland .

# * # IT is a truism to say that there is much violence of opinion Unseemly Dis- among the older Masonic jurisdictions in the United States on all questions affecting what is known as the Mothership of

American Freemasonry , the feeling being most strongly exhibited in those which are chiefly interested in the settlement of the matter in dispute . But although we have long since become accustomed to the ridicule and even abuse which every now and then have been showered upon the supporters of the Philadelphia claims to the honour of being the Mother City

of American Freemasonry , we cannot say that heretofore anything of a personally offensive or libellous nature has been alleged against them . Quite recently , however , we have had brought under our notice a most vile personal attack made by Bro . BRENNAN on Bro . CHARLES E . MEYER , which transcends anything in the shape of vulgar personal abuse we have

ever met with either in profane or Masonic writing , and of which it is enough to say that it has evoked a storm of righteous indignation from Bros . HUGHAN , WHYTEHEAD , and every one else in this country whose good opinion is worth having . Of course it is out of our power to explain how and why it is that some people are unable to argue a vexed question

without descending to such depths of scurrility as Bro . BRENNAN has in this instance , but we take upon ourselves to suggest that a brolher who finds it difficult or impossible to remember what is due to himself and his opponents as gentlemen—and in these unseemly disputations it is a more grievous sin against decency to make than to receive a slanderous attack—should give

up arguing . It is far belter that the Mothership of American Freemasonry , or any other point in dispute , should remain unsolved than that the very unedifying spectacle should be offered to the world of a Mason vilifying one of his chief opponents as though he were a pickpocket , because he finds it im ossible to meet his various propositions by fair argument .