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CONTENTS . PAGE LEADERArs Quatuor Coronatorum ... - ••• ••• ••• 6 ' 3 United Grand Lodge ( Agenda Paper ) ... ... — 613 Mark Grand Lodge ( Agenda Paper ) ... ... •* . — 614 Provincial Grand Lodge of East Lancashire ... ... ... ... 014

Consecration of the Egremont Lodge , No . 2 S 72 ... ... ... JJ 15 Consecration of the Ceres Lodge , No . 2 S 70 ... ... — - 015 Consecration of the Temperance Lodge , No . 2 S ? fi ... ... ... O 15 Masonic Presentation ... ¦•• ••• ••• ••• 61 G Craft Masonry ... ... - - - » ' » Royal Arch ... ... ... - - - '" 7

MASONIC NOTESAgenda Paper of United Grand Lodge ... ... ... — fun Agenda Paper of Mark Grand Lodge ... ... ... f" 9 Chapter Meeting of the Gieat Priory of England and Wales , & c . ... Gig Correspondence ... ... ¦¦• ¦¦• ••• — JJ 20 Masonic Notes and Queries ... ... ... ••¦ 620 Ancient and Accepted Kite ... ... -. — " 20

Craft Masonry ... ... ... ¦•• •¦• — <» i Instruction ... .,. ... •¦• ••• ••• y _ Mark Masonry ... ... ... ... — « 2 3 Science , Art , and the Drama ... ... ... ¦•• ••• ° 23 Obituary ... ... ... ... - - - <«< ? Reviews ... ... ... ... - - - < f > Masonic and General Tidings ... ... ... ••• * ° 2 b

Ars Quatuor Coronatorum.*

ARS QUATUOR CORONATORUM . *

Thc Transactions recorded in the new Part arc those winch took p lace at the meetings held on thc 3 rd May and the 24 th June , when the lodge was necessarily weig hed down with grief for tlie loss of two of its most valued members , who had been

connected with it from its very formation , and had filled two of Ihe most important offices from the date of its consecration , one that of Secretary and Editor of the Ars Q . C , and tlie other that of Treasurer . The members had known no other tenants of

these ollices during the 13 or 14 years of its career , and in losing them the lodge may be said to have lost a material part of itself . Still good men , as wc know from the recent report of the installation meeting , have been chosen in their stead ,

and the lodge will go on and prosper , as it lias prospered in the past , under the guidance of those who are moved b y the same impulses as their predecessors . Il is indeed well nigh impossible , even after this lapse of time , to shake off thc gloom which

en shadows this Part of the year ' s Transactions . We call to mind that almost on the day of his death P > ro . SPETH issued the summonses for the lirst of tin- two meetings herein described , and the lodge had scarce ! v had time to realise the greatness of

the loss it had sustained by his death , when the news of its further loss became known . In May , as a matter of course , the business was of a purely formal character , and Ihe record of its proceedings properly restricted to the memorial tribute addressed

to the lodge by his old personal friend and fellow labourer , Bro . W . II . RYLANDS , who has succeeded him , while the Transactions at the meeting on St . John ' s l ) ay-in-summer , are , we are glad to note , a further memorial to the late Secretary , as they

comprise , among other matter , the paper compiled b y Bro . Sl'ETH on " Naymus Grams , " and the "counterblast" from the pen of Urn . Dr . YV . J . CHETWODE CRAWLKV , which is entitled " Marcus drams Eversus , " and was written , as wc understand , at Bro .

SPETH ' personal request , the arrangement being that the two should be read at the June meeting , when in the ordinary course the usual discussion would have followed . This , however , was , for obvious reasons , dispensed with . But though , in consequence of the sad circumstances referred to , thc record of the lodge work has been curtailed , there is full

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compensation in the other contributions . Thc second part of Bro . E . CONDER , jun . ' s- paper on " Leicestershire Masonry , " is worth y of the prominence assigned to it , containing , as it docs , much interesting matter in the shape of excerpts from the

records of thc Borough of Leicester , 1327—1509 . Then arc some admirable reviews , firstly , of the "Tercentenary" Edition of Bro . D . Mi'RRAY LYON ' S great work of the " History of I he r _ . i . „ ~ r I . . i : „ i u arn ... i .. n , „« .. n \ T „ „ <> u .. r > 11 t ? Lod of h ' 1 " b

ge Edinburg ( Marys Chapel ) , No . , y Bro . R . F . GOULD ; and then the two by Bro . W . J . HuGlIAN ( 1 ) , of Vol . IX . of thc Q . C , Antigrapha— " Philo Musics et Architecture Societas , 1725-7 , " to which Bro . W . H . RYLANDS supplied the

Notes and Introduction , and ( 2 ) -of the "Transactions of the Lodge of Research , No . 2429 , Leicester , for the year 1900-1 , " which are so abl y and carefull y edited b y Bro . JOHN T . TllORP . These works have been reviewed in the columns of the

Freemason , and hence our readers have already been advised as to their respective merits ; but this fact will in no wise detract from the pleasure with which the reader will peruse thc opinions of these veteran authorities on works of

such great interest and importance . The contents likewise include the usual "Notes and Queries" and "Obituary , " the latter , we regret to say , being of unusual length , and relating in several cases to brethren of exceptional prominence in the ranks of

Freemasonry in thc United States . There , is also the " Chronicle " which regularl y forms part of this publication , and a full account of certain proceedings which took place in the Lod ge of St . Alban , Adelaide , South Australia , and testify to the respect in

which our late Bro . G . W . SPETH was held , not onl y b y those among whom he lived and moved and had his being , but also b y brethren in the more distant portions of the British Empire , where , of necessity , our late brother was known onlv or chichV by repute .

We mentioned in our " Notes " of last week that the Part is embellished with lifelike portraits of the late Bros . SPETH and Sir WALTER BESANT , and those of our readers who may desire to have copies of the former can obtain them of the Secretary ,

Bro . XV . PI . RYLANDS , La Tuya , Edward-road , Bromley , Kent . The copies have been printed on India paper , with wide margins , and will be sent on remittance of 5 s . each . The proceeds of sale will be added to thc " SPETH Memorial Fund . "

United Grand Lodge.

UNITED GRAND LODGE .

The following business is to be transacted on Wednesday next , tho 4 th prox .: 1 . The minutes of the Quarterly Communciation of the 4 th September , for confirmation . 2 . Communication from the Most Worshipful Grand Master in reply to Vote of Condolence .

3 . Announcement from the chair that the Most Worshi pful Grand Master had been pleased to acquiesce in the desire expressed by several Provincial and District Grand Masters , that the occasion of his Royal Hif / hness ' s installation as Most Worshi p ful Grand Master should be commemorated by the bestowal of Past Provincial and District Grand Rank 011 a limited number of brethren within the several provinces and districts , and

that in the exercise oi the power recently given the Grand Master by Rule 87 , Book of Constitutions , his Royal Highness has been pleased to empower . Provincial and District Grand Masters to confer the rank of Past Provincial or District Grand Oflicers in the following proportions : One appointment for every 12 lodges in a province or district where the lodges do not exceed 30 in number , with one additional if the broken number exceeds six ; and

one appointment for every eight lodges in provinces and districts where the number of lodges is more than 30 , with one additional if the broken number exceeds four . 4 . Nomination of a Grand Master for the ensuing year . 5 . Nomination of a Grand Treasurer for the ensuing year . 6 . Appointment and investment of a President of the Baard of Benevolence .