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* Now Head v . INDEX to Vol . VI . of "THE FREEMASON . " Maybe had at the Publishing OiKce , 19 8 , Fleetstreet .

The History Of Freemasonry,

THE HISTORY OF FREEMASONRY ,

FROM ITS ORIGIN TO THE PRESENT DAY . Drawn from the best sources and the most recent investigations . BY J . G . FINDEL , Second Edition , Revised , and Preface written by Bro . D . MURRAY LYON . One io \ ., 800 pages 8 vo ., with an Index . Cloth gilt . Price , 1 os . Cd . " Tiiis book is a strictly historical one , from which all is excluded that is not based upon ascertained or probable fact . "—Builder . " Of its value to Ficcinasous , as a detailed history of their Brotherhood , it is not possible to speak too hig hly . " — Put-lie Opinion .

" The author seems to have fairly exhausted the subject . "—The Athenaeum . "The edition we are now considering is a second English edition , which had the great advantage of Bro . D . M . Lyon ' s able superintendence and editorship in its English dress . There can be no doubt but , that so far , 13 ro . Findel ' s work is the most complete work o .. x- ' . crmasoiiry

which has yet appeared , and tlmi »>« deserves the greatest credit for h " ' " »—> -rul am ' accurate treatment of all evidence « ... me subject , and for his honest desire after truth . Bro . Findel gives up in the view he has so cleaily and consistently put foith our early Masonic history , the older theory ;> f the Homan Colleges , & c , and limits the origin of Freemasonry to about the twelfth century , and as

then arising from the operative Masons , and specially the ' * Steinmeitzcn" and " Bauhutten" of Germany . Bro . Findel gives us a good deal of evidence on this head , and one thing is clear from his work , that the German Freemasons were , at a very early period , organized into lodges with a Master over them , and with outward regulations and inner ceremonies peculiar to the Craft . Bro . Findel rejects

all the views which have been from time to time put forward of a Templar or a Rosicrucian origin . Whether or no Bro , Findel's theory of the date of the rise of Freemasonry be correct , matters very little : we do not ourselves profess to accept it ; but this we can fairly say of Bro Findel ' s work , it is marked from first to last by the most remarkable token of industry , ability , and care , of patient research , and

of skilful criticism . Wc know of no work which so clearly sets before us our amount of knowledge up to the present time on thc great question of Masonic Archtcology , and there can be little doubt that what , I ' reston ' s work is to English Freemasonry , Findel's work is to cosmopolitan Freemasonry . Indeed no student in Masonry can now dispense with it , and it is a perfect storehouse both of Masonic evidence and Masonic

illustrations . We earnestly recommend all the lodges in this country to obtain a copy for the lodge library before the work is bought up for America ; and we believe that no Mason will lise from the perusal of its pages without a higher idea both of the historical truth and intrinsic value of Freemasonry , and of fraternal regard and recognition to the latest and not the least well-informed or effective of our Masonic historians . The present century has produced

r . o such eijual , in authority and usefulness , to tlie great work of our Bro . Findel , and wc wish him and it , irr all of fraternal sympathy and kindly intent , many earnest readers , and more grateful . students . "—T / ir Mnsonic Magazine . " This volume is the history of Masonry pur excellence Every interested person may regard it , therefore , as the present text-book on the subject . " —Manchester Guardian London : GEORGE KENNING , 19 S , Fleet Street .

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Now ready , 121110 ., 20 S pages , handsomely bound in cloth , price as . fid ., post free 2 s . 8 d . THE ISRAELITES FOUND IN THE ANGLO-SAXONS . The Ten Tribes supposed to have beeu lost traced from thc land of their captivity to then occupation of the Isles of tlic Sea- Willi arr exhibition of those traits of character and national characteristics assigned to Israel 111 tin : Books of the I lebrew Prophets , by Bio . W . M . C ' AKHENTKH , Author of " Scientia Biblica , " " Scriptuie Natural History , " " Guide to the Reading of thc Bible , " ' Lectures on Biblical Criticism and Interpretatioii , " " A Popular Introduction to the Bible , " " The Biblical Companion , " " Critica Biblica , " " Calendarium Palestine , " " An Introduction tc the Reading and Study of tlie English Bible , and Editor of the fifth large edition of " Calmet's Dictionary of the Bible , " and of the abridgement of the same , etc ., etc , etc . LONDON : GEORGE KENNING , 198 , Fleet-street , E . C .

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REFLECTED RAYS OF LIGHT UPON FREEMASONRY .

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Answers To Correspondents.

Answers to Correspondents .

All Communications , Advertisements , & c , intended for insertion in the Number of the following Saturday , must reach the Office not later than 6 o ' clock on Wednesday evening . The following stands over : —Report of Lodge 127 S .

ERRATUM . —In our report ofthe Consecration of St . Elcth Lodge last week , the name of Bro . Capt . Chas . Hunter , P . G . M . East Aberdeenshire , P . G . W . Greece , was erroneously printed "Hunker . "

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The Freemason , SATURDAY , SEPTEMBER 26 , 1874 .

Proposed Royal Scottish Masonic Benevolent Institution.

PROPOSED ROYAL SCOTTISH MASONIC BENEVOLENT INSTITUTION .

In our last week's impression we stated , that , tip to the present time , no really worthy manifestation of Scottish Masoaic benevolence

had made itself known or felt , which state of things we deeply deprecated , as injurious to the prestige of Scottish Freemasonry , and certainly not in accordance with the real views and wishes

of our warm-hearted brethren across the border . Since then , our attention has been called to a prospectus and a letter , which we print in another column , and certain suggested rules and

regulations for a proposed " Royal Masonic Benevolent Institution . " We not only offer to such a proposal our warm support and hearty encouragement , but our ever ready and liberal publisher

will give , we understand , one hundred guineas , as proprietor of The Freemason , to the fund , if it shall be successfully floated and established . The p roposed Benevolent Institution includes

within its scope and end : —First , the maintaining , clothing , and educating the sons and daughters of Freemasons , as well as the clothing and supporting aged and decayed Freemasons ,

and the widows of Freemasons . That such a benevolent association is both wanted , and important to Scottish Freemasons and Scottish Freemasonry , we do not hesitate at once to say ,

and therefore we warmly welcome such an effort ; and though we do not pledge ourselves , to day , to the endorsement of all the suggested rules and regulations , or the proposed " modus operandi , "

we shall be sincerely glad if in the main the ideas of the benevolent and fraternal promoters are carried out , and Scottish Masonry is able to hail the commencement of an effective benevolent

institution , with such commendable aims . The Scottish Freemasons are men of much sagacity and business habits , and well able to manage their own affairs , and all we would venture to say to day is ,

don t waste time or money about any mere tentative schemes , especially those in which both the question of supply and demand , and success and failure most largely enter , but seek at once

to raise funds which will enable you to begin the good work of educating the orphan , and of aiding the necessitous and aged Freemasons . We have always thought , and still think , that