Contents.

CONTENTS .

LEADERS $ 39 Thc Reviser ! Constitutions . —1 5 . 10 Royal Alasonic Institution for Girls 540 Masonic I ^ vnummks 540 Australia 541 New Zealand 541 Canada 541

CORRESPONDENCEMore Grand Stewards 542 Ouarterat-c on Arrears 542 The Coming [ - " . lections 542 Alasonic Jewels 542

Thc Status of P . M . ' s 542 How History is Written 542 Is the Dnke of Bnccleuch a Freemason ? 543 Reviews " 43 Masonic Notes and Queries -43

Death of the Provincial Grand Alaster of Essex 343 Death of Colonel Kemeys-Tyute 543 REPORTS OF MASONIC MEETINGSCraft Masonry 544 Instruction 545 Mark Masonry 54 fl Masonic Presentation as Rewards of

Heroism 54 "> Gold and Silver \ Yyre Drawers' Company 547 Bro . Sala on Drink and Tohacco 547 The Theatres 54 H Alusic ' ... 54 Science and Art ' 4 Alasonic and General Tidings 549 Lodge Meetings for Next Week S' ° Historical Calendar 551

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ALL our readers will be sorry to hear of the death of Lord TENTERDEN' , Provincial Grand Master for Essex . A distinguished official in the public service , a zealous Freemason , and a kind and courteous member of society , his premature decease is a great loss to the country , to his friends , and to Freemasonry .

MANY of our readers will learn with extreme regret that our esteemed Bro . J HAVERS is lying on a bed of sickness , and enduring much suffering from a painful illness . Some of us will recall many years of active service for thc Craft ; some of us will be reminded of those high qualities of heart

and head which gave our distinguished friend and brother nt one time such great and prevailing influence in the councils of the Craft , before that he had all but retired from active participation in Freemasonry . All

of us will offer a word of sympathy to an old friend and so devoted a servant of our great Order now greatly afflicted , and feel much and earnest interest in one who has done so much for , and deseived so well of , English Freemasonry . * * WE understand that the next elections for the Schools will be closely contested ; thatof the Boys' specially promises to be very severe indeed . On the last occasion there was no voting for the Girls' School , all being elected , and

thoughsome have asked the question whether the remaining thirteen could not be also elected this , we apprehend that that is solely a matter for the executive to settle , both in respect of its prudence and possibility ; yet we are inclined to doubt whether there is really room for so large an increase , and whether

it is not an unwise precedent to create , to establish this constant adding to the expenses of our great Institutions . In the Girls' School , they have first the swimming bath and then the drains to pay for , and any needless increase of annual expenditure is much to be deprecated this year . The Boys' School

has as much to do as it can conveniently manage . The scheme for the preparatory school seems for want of support to " hang fire ; " and we would earnestly impress upon our readers the advisability of paying their subscriptions to

this fund at once , not only to get their own double votes , but to help forward a most needful and important effort for the efficiency and advantage of the Boys' School . * " *

WE are much p leased to announce to thc Craft that H . R . H . the Prince of WALES , as M . W . Grand Master , has graciously consented to have the noble " History of Freemasonry , " by Bro . K . F . GOULD , dedicated to His

Royal Highness . We sincerely congratulate both author and publisher on the compliment thus paid them , and ( consider that the merit of the first volume fully justifies the distinction thus conferred , as we believe it will be the Masonic work of this century .

* * WE often have comp laints of inadequate accommodation at Freemasons ' Hall for the growing needs of the Craft , and numerous suggestions are made to us from time to time with respect to erecting a new hall , on other sites , in

other localities . VVe frequently ask ourselves when we read such letters , or hear such remarks , do our good brethren realize what they are asking for ? or do they see clearly what they profess to want ? We doubt the fact very

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much . Freemasons' Hall is . 1 wonderfully convenient site for thc majority of our brethren , and affords sufficient accommodation for normal mcetinn-s . A much larger hall would , we think , be a mistake ; too great a building an encumbrance . It is true we want . some adjuncts to Freemasons' Hall . We

want a convenient waiting-room for those who come to see the GRAND SECRETARY on business . We want a library and a museum . We want a small Committee-room , which might be obtained by Freemasons , at a small sum , to hold meetings connected with Freemasonry . But these additions

are procurable , and not at a ruinous cost . Were vve to " make tracks , " wc should have the land to buy , —no cheap procedure in London just now , —and should find ourselves landed in building expenses , of which it is impossible to guess the total . Then we should have a battle of sites , as on this point ,

we apprehend , great adversity of opinion would exist in our body . True it is that we could sell our buildings in Great Queen-street for a considerable sum , but not sufficient to recoup us for a large and probably unavoidable expenditure . It is just possible , indeed , that before long , our authorities may

have no option in the matter . In tne great alterations and scheme for enlarging the thoroughfares even now before the Metropolitan Board of Works , Lincoln ' s-inn and Little Queen-street will be seriously affected . It may be that for one cause or another Great Queen-street may cease lo bc a desirable

central point or official home of English Freemasonry , and " nolcntcs volentes" our authorities may have to find another site for Freemasons ' Hall . When that day comes we have every confidence in our executive that they will alike consider on the one hand the claims of proper economy , and the needs of an increasing and prosperous Brotherhood on thc other .

* * THE close of the Egyptian campaign is alike a matter of great rejoicing at home in all " our quiet lands , " and reflects the greatest credit on all ranks of our gallant army and navy , and their skilful and ener <** etic

commanders . The result of the Egyptian mutiny is another proof that when England is thoroughly roused she never strikes in vain , and may serve as a useful warning to some who affect to say or think that her power is waning , her prestige is dimned . When all has been done so well , and

provided for so liberally ; when the needs and reciuircments of warfare have all been carefully foreseen and organized , we arc inclined to believe that thc report of one of the newspaper correspondents that our brave wounded were not properly attended at Alexandria , and left 111 ? tended and' without

food for hours in the burning sun on the quays , is either a gross exao-o-eration or a foolish " canard . " Such a fact , if it were a lact , would make us all very indignant at home , for no one deserves better of his country than does "Tommy Atkins . " But remembering certain authentic telegraphic

despatches , and the tendency to make mountains out of molehills , and the necessity incumbent on reporters on the field of writing somethin" -, we arc inclined to put these extraordinary paragraphs down to that exuberance of

imagination and that fatal facility of penmanship in which some of those who have filled the columns of our contemporaries have been wont to indulge . Let us all hope that it will turn out to be so .

- •' . i x WE shall all have been deeply struck with the account of thc German Sausage Manufactory , and dead and diseased ' * Horses . " Some of us have a partiality for sausages , and not a few of us for German sausao-es ,

but for some time to come we shall feel uneasy when we hoar the word " sausage , " our functional susceptibilities will be roused , our inner psychology stirred . And yet why should we be astonished at this industrious citizen , who gives a trusting public putrid horse flesh instead of good meat ,

and pays cheerfully a fine of £ 20 properly inflicted by the Magistrate , showing us among other things that nothing is so successful as success ? After all he is only doing what others do ; adulteration is rife amongst us , in

the food we eat , in the liquids we drink . Our contemporary , the Observer , thus enlarges upon the fact : " Adulteration , or as Mr . BRIGHT has been pleased to call it , trade competition , is a very serious evil . The indignation with which TENNYSON denounces the rogue who ' pestles a poisoned poison