Index.

INDEX .

A A Bible of Histtrical Interest , 186 A Caution , 460 A Century of Freemasonry , 179 , 107 , 205 A Correction , -582 A Curious Version of Rip Van Winkle , 439 A Fair Distribution , 391 A Few words to our Kind Correspondents , 49

A Good Story , 464 A Letter to Bro . Hubert , Pans , 419 A Life Service , 3 82 A Lucky Crossing-sweeper , 158 A Masonic Oration , 520 A Memory of the Past , 203 A Menace , 105

A Monument iu Memory of the late Lord Ly tilt ton , 417 A Neglected Gallery , 329 A New Idea , 43 1 A New Joke , 332 A New Year ' s Greeting , 6 A Nice Question , 80

A Note of Warning , 18 A Novelty in the Photographic Art , 280 A Praiseworthy Effort , 150 A Quid Pro Quo , 318 , 480 A Relic of the Temple , 171 A Sculptor ' s Studio , 51 A Shakesperian Menu , 51

A Special Announcement , 49 A Startling Archaeological Discovery , 449 A Threat , 179 A Wedding Present , 103 A Word to Investors , 483 A Worthy Tribute , 130 A Yachting Cruise , 171

Aden , 145 African Explorations , 171 Alexandra Palace and Grounds , 509 Allahabad , 145 All Serene , 78 * ' Alpine Selfishness , 415 An Amusing Little Episode , 480

An American In Memoriam , 5 65 An Awkward Split , 63 An Exhibition of Fans , 347 An Explanation , 510 An Increasing Family , 4 68 An Oyster Bed , 171 ANCIENT AND ACCEPTED

RITECornwall Chapter , 425 Hilda Chapter , 538 Ivor Hael Chapter , 74 Leo Chapter , 130 Liverpool Chapter , 130 Morganwg Chapter , 155 Royal Kent Chapter , 130

St . Hilda Chapter , 130 Studholme Chapter , 130 Ancient and Accepted Rite in New Zealand , the , 468 Ancient and Accepted Scottish . Rite in Paris , Festival of the , 491 Ancient and Motlern Mas « nry , 266 Anniversary Festival of the Boys' School ,

344 Annual Excursion , Bro . George Kenning s , 3 86 Annual Festival of the Emulation Lodge of Improvement , 570 , 383 Annual Festival of the Mark Benevolent

Fund , 356 Annual Masonic Ball at Liverpool , 30 Annual Picnic of the Neptune Lodg--, No . 1264 , 422 Another Side to the Picture , 64

Another Terrible Colliery Explosion , 299 Arrangements for the Secretarial Election of the Girls' School , 308 Autumn Grievances , 422 Awful Intelligence , 405 B

Bacheltlcrand Dottle ' s Masonic Concert in Manchester , 19 8 Bathing Place , 383 Bcntvolcnce , I odge of , 50 , 102 , 146 , 164 , 2 ' 7 . 3 ' 2 » 368 , 416 , 457 , 514 , ss Benevolent Institution , Royal Masonic , 3 , 7 , 16 , 18 , 85 , 97 , 104 , 114 . iip > 'S ° . 189 , 237 , 262 , 26 4 , 289 , 299 , 351 , 385 , 408 , 454 . 486 . 545

Index.

Betting Evils , 480 Board of General Purposes , 286 Bombay , District Grand Lodge of , 302 Bow Bells , 43 6 Boys' and Girls' Schools Voting Papers ,

the , 471 Boys' Schoeil Anniversary for 1878 , 251 . Boys' School Committee Dinner Club , 103 , Boys' School , Election for the , 500 . Boys' School , Irish Masonic Orphan 215 . Brethren of the Ministerial Cabinet in

Liverpool 429 . Bro . Crawford ' s new Work , 391 . „ Cremieux ' s Speech at the Fete of the Trocadero , 55 . - ; „ D . smon's Report , 120 . „ Hedges' Committee , ¦ 128 '

„ Hubert and French Freemasonry , 78 „ George Kcnning ' s Annual Excursion , 386 „ George Kcnning's International Banquet , 335 „ Thevenot and thc " Freemason , 118 „ Thcvenot ' s Letter , 105 c

Cambridge , Our Royal Grand Master at , 67 Canada , Freemasonry in , 157 Canada , Grand Lodge ({ , ' 392 Canada , Royal Arch Masonry in , 49 8 Can Ladies Vote at the General Committee of the Girls' School ? 308 Capitular Freemasonry , 30

Catastrophe on the Thames , the , 45 1 Caution , a , 4 60 Centenary of the Mount Lebanon Lodge , No . 73 , . 1 ° Century of Freemas mry , a , 179 , 106 , 205 Ceylon , Freemasonry in , 564 Charitable Administration , 32

Charitable Institutions , our , 226 Charitable Institutions , the Present Position and Future Prospects of our , 370 Charities , Giants to our , 78 Charities , our , 214 Charitv , 218 Charity Association , London Masonic , 416 ,

418 , 437 , 441 , 454 , 461 . 4 6 9 . 479 . 488 , 49 > 5 " . SH Charity Association , Report of the London Masonic , 499 Charity Organisation , 239 Charity Reform , 192 Charity Voting Reform Association , 359

Check on Omnibus Conductors , 4 68 Cheshire Educational Masonic Institution , 298 Christmas , 1878 , 600 Clacton-on-Sea , 358 Cle » p » tra ' s Ntedlr , 49 , 51 , 77 , 103 , 198 , 3 ° 7 . 3 S 6 , 39 > 436 . 453 . 4 °

Collision in the Channel , the , 287 Colonial Board , 286 Colour Blindness , 347 Commencement of the Stage Coaching Season , 232 Compensations , 601 Complimentary Concert to a Liverpool

Freemason , 91 Complimentary Dinner to Distinguished American Freemasons , 378 Communique * , 19 , 249 Conceit at Aberavon , 6 9 Congratulatory Dinner to Brn . Hedges , 593 CONSECRATIONS OF CRAFT LODGES : —

Albert Edward , No . 1780 , 595 Albeit Edward , No . 1783 , 595 Albert Victor , No . 1773 , 525 Cholmeley , No . 1731 , 21 Coleridge , No . 1750 , 425 Eldon , No . 1755 . 447 Eleanor Cross , No . 1764 , 472

Farringdon Without , No . 1745 , 253 Gordon , No . 1726 , 155 Ivanhoe , No . 1779 , 534 Kensington , No . 1767 , 472 King Henry VIII ., No . 1757 , 544 King ' s Cross , No . 1732 , 51 , 67

Kirkdale , No . 1756 , 543 , Landport , No . 1776 , 574 Leopold , No . 1760 , 458 Montgomerie , No . 174 1 , 252 Obedience , No . 1753 , 426 Ogmore , No . 1752 , 346 Perseverance , No . 1 743 , 318 , 319

Index.

I CONSECRATIONS ( continued ) Pimlico , No . 1772 , 492 Progress , No . 1768 , 513 Royal Hanover , No . 1777 , 502 Royal Savoy , No . 1 744 , 253 St . John ' s , No . 1736 , 219 St . Leonard ' s , No . 1766 , 512 , 524

Sunbury , No . 1733 , 148 Temple Bar No . 1728 , 20 Trinity College , No . 1765 , 483 Trinity , No . 1734 , 173 Urmston , No . 1730 , 50 CONSECRATIONSOF ROVAL ARCH CHAPTERSBayard No . 1615 , 105 , 108

Chaucer , No . 1540 , 327 Dobie , No . 88 9 , 195 Downshire , No . 594 , 595 Eclectic , No . 1201 , 230 Equality , No . 1145 , 381 Francis Burdett , No . 1503 , 121 Kennington , No . 1381 , 590

Metropolitan , No . 1507 , 398 Mid Surrey , No . 1044 , 48 3 Star , No . 1275 , 61 St . Mary ' s No . 6 3 , 240 St . Thomas ' s No . 142 , 482 Wanderer ' s No . 1604 , 15 6 Wayside , No . i- { 95 , 122

Ethelbert , Rose Croix , 5 61 Excelsioi , Rose Croix , 478 CoisSECRATlONS OF MARK LODUES : — Brixton , No . 234 , 545 Faithful ) , No . 229 , 427 Hercward , No . 227 , 403 Leopold , No . 235 , 574 '

St . John's No . 214 , 80 West Smithfield . No . -123 , 381 Contest for the Secretaryship of the Girls ' School , the , 262 , 28 b , 290 , 298 Cornwall , Knights Templar in , 4 Cosmopolitan Masonry , 583 Court of the Girls' School , the Last Quarterly

3- " Cumberland Benevolent Institution , 53 Curiosities of Masonic Literature , 252 Curious Version of Rip Van Winkle , a , 439 Cyclopaedia of Freemasonry , 18 5 D

Dangers of the St . Bernard , 8 Death of a Miser , 102 „ an Arctic Scholar , 203 „ Dr . Bcnisch , 399 „ the Grand Duchess of Hesse , Darmstadt , 592 Dedication ofa Masonic Hall at Shipley , 534

De Lacy Preceptory , Inauguration of the , 290 Devon , Provincial Grand Mark Lodge of , 39 Devon , Provincial Grand Priory of , 199 Dinner Club , Boy \ e School Committee , 103 Dinner to Distinguished American Freemasons , Complimentary , 378 ,

District Grand Lodge of Bombay , 302 District Grand Lodge of South Africa ; Eastern Division , 347 District Grand Lodge of South Australia , 302 District Grand Lodge of Tasmania , 362 District Grand Mastership of Madras , the ,

35 * Dublin Masonic Orphan Bay ' s School , 504 Dulwich College , 266 E

Earl of Carnarvon Lodge Ball , 123 Earl of Carnarvon , Resignation ol the , 60 Easter Tuesday in the City , 218 Ebb and Flow , 404 Eclectic Lodge , No . 1201 , Ladies Banquet ,

sss Election for the Boys' School , 500 Election for the Girls' School , 500 Election of a New Pope , the , 118 Election of City Remembrancer , the , 521 Election of Secretary to the Girls' Scr . ool , the

262 , 280 , 290 , 298 , 299 , 318 , 358 Emperor of Germany , the , 250 English and Foreign Freemasonry , 522 , 5 32 , 54 i English Masonry and Atheists , 418

Index.

Engli > h Masonry iu North Afiica , 3 61 Evils of Betting , 480 Excursioniits , Perils to , 441 Execution at Pe .-diawur , 434 Expeditions , Telegraphing , 3 68 Explanation , an , 510 F

Fair Distributi n , a , 391 Falkland Memorial , Inauguration of the , 459 Faningdon Without Lodge , No . 1745 , 253 Festival of the Ancient and Accepted Rite in Paris , 491 Festival of the Boys' School , Anniversary ,

344 Festival of the Emulation Lodge of Improvement , Annual , 570 Festival of the Leicester Lodge of Instruction , 103 Festival of the Royal Masonic Benevolent Institution , 92

Festival of the Stability Lodgeof Instruction , 223 Fete at the Trocadero , the , 500 , 563 , 571 Fine Art at the Cr- stal Palace , 236 Fine Arts and the Liverpool Exhibition , 200 Fire at Castle Bayard Wharf , Upper Thamesstreet , 43 , '

Foreign freemasonry , English and , 522 France 458 „ the Grand Orient of , 49 , 6 5 , 80 , 403 , 440 , 489 " Freemason " and the Monde Maconnique , the , 105 " Freemason " in 1878 , the , 7

Freemasonry and Civilization 231 „ Cyclopaedia of , 185 „ in Australia , 11 , 94 , 3 86 , 5 4 „ Canada , 157 „ Ceylon . 5 6 4 „ France , 551 „ India , 60 , 157 . 171 , 236 , 433 ,

5 4 „ Jamaica , 26 5 „ Japan , 60 „ Madras , 521 „ New South Wales , 5 61 „ New York , 218 „ New Zealand , 11 , 68 , 81 , 102 ,

164 , 170 , 180 , 311 , 438 , 5 * 5 . 560 „ North Africa , 267 „ Philadelphia , 53 „ Scotland , 10 , 45 6 „ Southampton , 515 „ St . Kitts , 217 „ Sussex , 311 .

„ The United States , 180 „ Worcestershire , 196 „ What will 1878 bring to , 6 Freemasons' Dinners , 403 „ Lifeboat "Albert Edward , " Service of the , 280 „ Lif . boats , the , 300 „ Tavern . 468 „ The Poplar Board of Works

and the , 149 „ The Prince of Wales and the , 231 French-Freemasonry , 490 „ Grand Orient and the English G and Lodge , the , 319

„ Giand Orient ; the Present Positian of the , 78 „ Technical Education , 417 From Harvest to Hariesf , 448 Funeral of Bro . James Johnstone , 526 „ the Victims of the Thames Collision , 446 G

Germanic Loyalty , 382 Girls' and the Boys' Schools , the , 287 „ School Anniversary , the , 250 , „ Election , October , 1878 , List of Candidates for the , 45 0 „ „ Illness at the , 173 .. .. the , 79 Grand Chapter of Piincc Masons of Ireland , 3 >< -