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Now ready , with Index and Preface , in Twelve Imperial Folio Pails , 5 s . each , or bound in one handsome volume , £ 3 . THE FREEMASONS' LIBER MUSICUS , Dedicated by express permission toH . R . U . THE PRINCE OF WALES , Past Grand Master of England and Wales . Edited by Dit . WILLIAM SPARK , P . P . G . O ., W . Y . —298 . This Work contains 215 pp . and 118 Musical Compositions suitable for all the Ceremonies of the Masonic Order ; First , Second , and Thiid Degrees ; Consecration and Dedication of I falls and Lodges j Programmes , Toasts , Songs , Tiios , Choruses , & -c , for Banquets and other Festive Gatherings ; Laying Foundation or Coiner Stones ; Installation ; Mark Masonry ; Royal Arch ; Masonic Funerals ; Voluntaries ; Marches , tic , & c . Notice from the Evening Mail . * ' Our Masonic readers are no strangers to the name of tiro . William ^ park , the talented musician anil Organist of the Town Hal ) , Leeds . In this really great work , now completed , Ur . Spark , has shown his great tact and judgincn by completing and compiling for tbe Masonic brethren a complete library of musical , compositions of the choicest Knglish and foreign works , ancient , traditional , modern , vocal , and instrumental , by the best composers . It comprises Masonic anthems , installation odes , dedication music , responses , opening , closing , and intermediate music lor all degrees , Thanksgivings , funeral odes , marches , songs , ducts , bampiet music , programmes , voluntaries , and general musical directions , arranged for voices and organ , pianoforte , or harmonium . " Tbe t ' reevwasows' Liber Musicus " is isswed vtitvi tlic concurrence of many influential Masonic Lodges , and under the distinguished patronage and support of tile Most Worshipful tile Grand Masters of Kngland , Wales , Scotland , and Ireland . It forms a complete library of the choicest and rarest Masonic music , in aword . it is indispensable to all Masonic lodccs . The worthy brother editor , moreover , has bad the valuable co-operation anil assistance of the most distinguished and experienced composers and organists , members of the Craft . It is brought out in the highest style of art , is minted from large engraved music plates , and forms a very handsome folio volume of " nearly two hundred and twenty pages 1 " It deserves the patronage of " every Masonic Lodge , both at home and abroad , and tor its meiits alone it ought to be zoalonslv prized by every brother . As a present to a lodge , nothing could be more useful , valuable , and appropriate . HANDSOME CLOTH COVERS , with gilt lines , and lettered , for Binding ( similar to those used for the Graphic and Jlhistratrd News ) , price 5 s . each . LONDON : GEORGE KENNING , 198 , Fleet-street .

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Second Edition , Now Ready , j / fj . A MASONIC MUSICAL SERVICE . In the key of C . for A ., ' ]' ., T ., B , Opening and Closing Odes , Craft Ceremonies . Royal Arch Ceremony . Consecration Ceremony . Grace before and after Meat . COMPOSED BV DR . J . C . BAKER , NO . 241 . LONDON . —Geo . Kenning , 198 , Fleet-street ; and 2 , 3 , and 4 , Little Britain . „ R . Spencer , 26 , Great Queen-street . LIVERPOOL . —Geo . Kenning , 2 , Monument-place . MANCHESTER . —E . Henry & Co ., 59 , Deansgate . Duiui . v . — -C . EeVtgelong , 26 , Grafton-street GLASGOW . —Geo . Kenning , 145 , Argyle-street .

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MADAME TUSSAUD'S EXHIBITION , BAKER STREET . Now added , PORTRAIT MODELS of SIR GARNET WOLSELEV , the Three Judges in the Tichborne Trial , Cockburn , Mellor , and Lush ; the Shah of Persia , Marshal MacMahon , M . Thiers , and the late Mr . Charles Dickens . < Ldmission is . Children under ten , fid . Extra Rooms , 6 d . - i-v , — . Open frem ten a . m . to ten p . m , 1

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Now ready , i 2 mo „ 20 S pages , handsomely bound in cloth price 2 S > 6 d ., post free 2 s . 8 d . THE ISRAELITES FOUND IN THE ANGLO-SAXONS . The Ten Tribes supposed to have been lost traced from jhe land of their captivity to their occupation of the Isles of the Sea . With an exhibition of those traits of character and national characteristics assigned to Israel in the Books of the Hebrew Prophets , by Bro . WM . CAHPENTEB , Author of " Scicntia Biblica , " " Scripture Natural History , " " Guide to the Reading of the Bible , " " Lectures 011 Biblical Criticism and Interpretation , " " A Popular Introduction to the Bible , " " The Biblical Companion , " " Critiea Biblica , " "Calendarium Palestine , " "An Introduction to the Reading and Study of the 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 , 108 , Fleet-street , E . C

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SECOND EDITION . —NOW READY . Price One Shilling , Post-free , Revised and Enlarged . Freemasonry in Relation to Civil Authority and the Family Circle , By BRO . CHALMERS I . PATON . ( Past Master , No . 393 , England . ) r pHIS work is a perfect handbook of the principles of Freemasonry , founded on the Ancient Charges and Symbols , and will be found to be eminently practical and useful in the vindication and support of the Order . Office , 108 , Fleet-street .

The History Of Freemasonry.

THE HISTORY OF FREEMASONRY .

FROM ITS ORIGIN TO THE PRESENT DAV . Drawn from trie 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 Index . Cloth gut . Price , ios . 6 ( 1 . " 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 iTeemasons , as a detailed history of their Brotherhood , it is not possible to speak too highly . "Public Opinion . " The author seems to have fairly exhausted tbe sub-: erf . "—Thp Athenaeum .

" The edition we are now considering is a second English edition , which had the gteat advantage of livo . D . M . Lyon ' s able superintendence and editorshi p 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 lie deserves the greatest credit for his careful and accurate treatment of all evidence

on the subject , and for his honest desire after truth . Bro . Findel gives up in the view he has so clearly and consistently put foith our eatly Masonic history , the older theoiy ; 'f 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 " Sieinmeitzen" 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 , ami with outward regulations and iiincr ' ceremonies peculiar to the Craft . Uro . 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 wecan fairly say of Bro Findel ' s work , it is marked from first to last by the most remarkable tokenof industry , ability , ami care , of patient research , anp 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 doubt that whatl'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 rise 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 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 Masonic Mugazine . " This volume is the history of Masonry par excellence Every interested person may regard it , therefore , as the present text-book on the subject . " —Manchester Guardian London : GEORGE KENNING , 198 , Fleet Street .

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THE MARK MASONS' SONG , Dedicated by permission to the Right Hon . the Earl Percy , M . P ., 30 ° , Right Worshipful Provincial Grand Master of Freemasons for Northumberland . Most Worshipful Grand Mark Master Mason of England . Words b y Bro . T . Burdett Yeoman , Original Mark Lodge No . 1 ,, composed by Bro . Henry Parker , Original Mark LodgeNo . 1 . Office , 198 , Fleet-street .

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In the Press , will shortly be Published . Price 5 s ., Svo , handsomely bound . THE LIFE OF CONSTANTINE . Written in Greek , by EUSEBIUS PAMPII . US , ( Bishop of Caesarca in Palestine ) . Done into English from that edition , set forth by VALESIUS , and ptinted in Paris in the year 1630 . Preface by Bros . R . Wentworth Little , Treas . Gen ., and the Rev . A . F . A . Woodford , Past Grand Chaplain . With Engravings of Constantine ; the Duke of Sussex , P . G . Sov . ; Lord Rancliffe , P . G . Sov . ; Earl Bective , M . P ., P . G . Sov . ; Sir Frederick Martin Williams , Bart ., M . P ., M . I . G . Sov ., tic ., & c . London : GEORGE KENNING , 198 , Fleet-street .

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Now Ready . TNDEXtoVol . VI . of "TitE FREEMASON . " May be had at the Publishing Oflice , 198 , Fleetstreet .

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TO FOREIGN SUBSCRIBERS . It is very necessary for our friends to advise us of all money orders they remit , more especially those from the United States of America , otherwise we cannot tell where fo credit them . Several remain uncredited at the present time owing to no advice having been received .

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The Freemason , SATURDAY , MAY 30 , 1874 .

Fantastic Proceedings.

FANTASTIC PROCEEDINGS .

A case has come to our cognizance fo which we deem it right , in the interests of Freemasonry , to call attention at once , in the hope , that , a stop may at once be put to a proposal , which if

persevered in , must tend not only to the detriment of the Craft in that particular locality , but which is most antagonistic to the spirit of the

Book of Constitutions and the " lex inscripta " of our Order , and will we think bring the W . M . and officers and brethren inevitably sooner or later under the notice of the Board of General

Purposes . We have received a communication dated May 12 th , from a reputable and respectable brother , who has furnished us in confidence with his

name , in which we are assured that in a lodge therein specified , under the English Constitution a bye-law has been proposed and carried , that " a visiting fee not exceeding three guineas , each

visit , shall be charged , at the option of the Master , on all Masons resident within a radius of three miles , who may desire to visit the lodge more than once , without becoming affiliated . "

We should have been inclined to think that there must be some mistake , but the letter of complaint lies before us as we write , and we have every reason to believe it to be a bona fide

communication , and we are made acquainted both with the locality and the name of the lodge , which is most assuredly to be found in the Masonic Calendar .

The object gravely asserted to be the reasou of this most remarkable bye-law is , " in order to keep out any members of the Craft who

although subscribing to other lodges , might be obnoxious to the members of the lodges in question . "

Now we venture at once to express our most decided opinion , that , anything more utterl y unmasonic more alike in verbiage and in spirit , more opposed to the hospitality of our hospitable brotherhood , and more derogatory to the dignity