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MADAME TUSSAUD'S EXHIBITION BAKER STREET . Now added , PORTRAIT MODELS oi the SHAH of PERSIA , Marshal MacMahon , M . Thiers , and the late Charles Dickens . The original autograph and testimonial written and presented by the Shah to Messrs . Tussaud , July 3 , 1873 , is exhibited . Admission is . Children under ten , Od . Extra Rooms , 6 d . Open from ten a . m . to ten p . m

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 vol ., 800 pages 8 vo ., with an Jndex . Cloth gilt . Price , 10 s . 6 d . " This 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 Freemasons , as a detailed history of their Brotherhood , it is not possible to speak too hig hly . "—

Public Opinion . " The author seems to have fairly exhausted the subject . "—The Alhenaeum . " The edition we are now considering is a second English edition , which had the great advantage of Bro . D JI . Lyon's able superintendence and editorship in its English dress . There can be no doubt but , that so far , Bro .

Findel ' s work is the most complete work on Freemasonry which has yet appeared , and that he deserves the greatest credit for his careful and accurate treatment of all evidence ou the subject , and for his honest desire after truth . Bro . Findel gives up in the view he has so clearly and consistently put forth our early Masonic history , the older theory of the Roman Colleges , & c , and limits the origin

of Freemasonry to about the twelfth century , and as then arising from the operative Masons , and specially the " Steinmeitzen" 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 thc 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 ;( late of the rise of Freemasonry be correct , matters very little : we do not ourselves profess to accept it ; but this wecan fairly say of Bro Findel ' s work , it is marked from first to last by the most remarkable

tokenof industry , ability , and care , of patient research , and of skilful criticism . We know of no work which so clearly sets before us our amount of knowledge up to the present time on the great question of Masonic Archaeology , and there can be little doubtthatwhatjPreston ' 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 rise from the perusal of its pages without a hig her 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 no such equal , in authority and usefulness , to the great work of our Bro . Findel , and we wish him and it , in all of fraternal sympathy and kindly intent , many earnest readers , and more grateful students . "—The Mnsonic

Magazine . "This volume is the history of Masonry par excellence Kvery interested Jperson may regard it , therefore , as the present text-book on the subject . "—Manchester Guardian Bro . GEORGE KENNING , 198 , FLEET STREET , LONDON , E . C .

Answers To Correspondents.

Answers to Correspondents .

WVNN-BURBOUGUS . —( Calcutta ) . —The August issue of the " Masonic Magazine" is out of print—it wilt shortly be reprinted , when a copy shall be sent you . "FIAT JUSTITIA . "—Letter received , but too long . Will appear in an abbreviated form next week .

Births, Marriages, And Deaths.

Births , Marriages , and Deaths .

DEATHS . SMITH . —At Liverpool on the 2 nd inst ., William Fergusson , son of Dr . Kellett Smith , aged 2 years . BitAsiEH . —On Feb . 17 th , at 37 , High-street , Margate , Mary Susannah Asworth ( Bebsie ) , fourth and dearly loved daughter of Bro . William Church Brasier , P . M ., and Treasurer of Union Lodge , No . 27 , aged 19 ,

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Masonic Newspapers And Literature.

MASONIC NEWSPAPERS AND LITERATURE .

Bro . McCalla , in a very able article of his in the Philadelphia Keystone , makes use of the somewhat solemn exclamation , " Let there be Light . " He seems to look on the diffusion of Masonic Literature and the success ofthe Ma-