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To Correspondents.

To Correspondents .

The following communications among others unavoidably stand over : — "CRAFT LODGES—Canongate Kilwinning , No . 2 ( S . C . ) j Robert Burns , Mo . 25 : Lodgeof the Marches , No . 611 ; Whittington , No . 862 ; Priory , No . 1000 ; and Lodge La France , No . 2060 . LODGES OF INSTRUCTION—Starkie ; Temperance , No . 169 ; Covent Garden , No . 1614 : Chiswick , No . 2012 ;

Stockwell , No . 1339 ; Hyde Park , No . 1425 ; Islington , No . 1471 j and Kensington , No . 1767 . CHAPTER OF INSTRUCTION—Star , No . 1275 . ROYAL ARCH—Friendship Chapter , No . 202 . KNIGHTS TKMPLAR—Jacques de Molay Preceptory , No . 36 .

Presentation to Bro . H . Oxley Wakefield . Historical Notes on Scotch Lodges , by Bro . D . Murray Lyon . BOOKS . Sec , RECEIVED . " Liberal Freemason , " " Proceedings of the Grand Lodge of

Manitoba , " " The Tyler , " " Masonic Review , ' "South African Freemason , " * ' Keystone , " "Freimaurer-ZeitunK , " " La Chaine d'Union , " "Die Bauhutte , " "South Australian Freemason , " '' Proceedings of the Grand Lodgeof New Brunswick , " "Voice of Masonry" ( Chicago ) , "Australian Keystone , " " New Zealand Masonic Journal , " " Freemasons' journal" ( New York ) , " Boletin Oficial , " "Victorian Freemason , " "Freemasons' Repository , " ' . ' Masonic World , " and " Canadian Craftsman . "

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SATURDAY , NOVEMBER 24 , 1888 .

Original Correspondence.

© rtgtnal Correspondence ,

" AN OLD MASONIC SONG . " To the Editor of the " Freemason . " Dear Sir and Brother , This seems to have been a popular song with th brethren of last century , as it appears to be in many of th lists of songs then published . As well as in the works

mentioned in your last week s edition , it is found along with others in "Wm . Auld ' s History of Masonry , " dedicated to Patrick Earl of Dumfries , Grand Master Mason of Scotland . Edinburgh , 1772 . —Vours fraternally , B . W . D . MONTGOMERY , Sec . X . ( I . C . ) November 19 th .

Reviews.

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GRAND LODGE OF ILLINOIS , 1888 . The proceedings , & c , of this large and vigorous Grand Lodge extend to nearly 500 pages , and together make a very readable volume . The Grand Master is M . W . Bro . John C . Smith , who was re-elected to that important office on October 3 rd , 1888 , as was also the Deputy G . M ., thc R . W . Bro . J . M . Pearson , and , as a matter of coursethe

, Grand Secretary , V . W . Bro . Loyal L . Munn , the Grand Treasurer and Grand Wardens being similarly complimented . The Grand Master is much respected , and rules ably as the chief Master Mason out of over 40 , 000 Craftsmen and 700 lodges and upwards . Illinois is onl y second to New York as respects size , the latter Grand Lodge numbering some 72 , 000 members on its roll , being the largest

in America . The returns by Bro . Munn , compiled by him as the beloved Grand Secretary , are most elaborate , and extend to many scores of pages , the " directory " portion giving the names ot the several lodges , post-offices for correspondence , stated meetings , and the names of the several Masters and Secretaries , and a tabular statement showing , with other particulars of value , the membership of each of the 700 odd lodges during 1 S 87 , the number raised ,

admitted , died , expelled , suspended , and admitted during 1888 , as also statistics respecting the number of rejections , initiations , passings , amount of dues , and net tuUls ofmembers to date . The address of the G . M . is well written , and met with the warm approval of the Grand Lod ge . Portions of the correspondence is interesting to us on this side of the " big pond , " as it deils with the America" doctrine of personal , side by side , with that of the British custom of territorial jurisdiction , our well-known Bro . D .