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ROYAL MASONIC INSTITUTION FOR BOYS . PATRON : HER MA . | KSTV THE QUEEN . PRESIDENT : HIS ROVAL HIGHNESS THE PRINCE OK WALES , K . G ., M . W . G . M . THE RT . HON . VISCOUNT HOLMESDALE , R . W . Provincial Grand Master of Kent , has kindly consented to Preside at the 85 th ANNIVERSARY FESTIVAL , to be held Un WEDNESDAY , jyth June , 1 SS 3 . The services of Brethren as Stewards are earnestly solicited . Particulars , with information as to " Special Privileges " in connection with the " Preparatory School Building Fund , " attainable only to 31 st December , 1 SS 3 , may be obtained on application . FREDERICK BINCKES , V . Pat . ( P . G . Stwd . ) , Secretary . Office , C , Freemasons' Hall , W . C , I 21 st December , 1 SS 2 .

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TO OUR READERS . THE FREEMASON is published every Friday morning , price 3 d ., and contains the fullest and latest information relating to Freemasonry in every degree . Subscriptions , including Postage;—United States , ,,..,,.. , Canada , the Continent , India , China , Cevlon United kingdom . the Colonics & c . Arabia ,, & c . 13 s . 6 d . 15 s . 6 d . 17 s . 6 d . Remittances may be made in Stamps , but Post OHicc Orders or Cheques arc preferred , the former payable to GEORGE KEXXINO , Chief Office , Lcndon . the latter crossed London Joint Stock Bank .

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TO ADVERTISERS . THE FREEMASON has a large circulation in all parts of the Globe . In it the official Reports of the Grand Lodges of England , Ireland , and Scotland are published with the specia sanction of the respective Grand Masters , and it contains a complete record of Masonic worn in this country , our Indian Empire , and the Colonies . The vast accession to the ranks of the Order during the past few years , and the increasing interest manifested in its doings , has given the Freemason a position and influence which few journals can lay claim to , and the proprietor can assert with confidence that announcements appearing in its columns challenge the attention of a very large and influential body of readers . Advertisements for the current week's issue are received up to Six o ' clock on Wednesday evening .

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SATURDAY , DECEMBER 30 , 1882 .

To Correspondents.

To Correspondents .

P . M . —Will P . M . kindly send full name and address of brother referred to , and we will forward the documents direct . A LEWIS . —No such rule is in force as far as we are aware . — The following stand over : — Priory Lodge , No . 1000 ; Abbey Lodge , No . 11 S 4 . Excelsior Mark Lodge , No . 22 G .

BOOKS . & c . RECEIVED . "The Broad Arrow , " "The Citizen , " "The Blackburn Standard , " "The Hull Packet , " "The Royal Cornwall Gazette , " "The Manchester Courier , " " Night and Day " ( Christmas Number ) , "The Keystone , " "The Canadian Craftsman , " "The Masonic Record , " "The Watchman , " " La Revista Masonica , " " The Court Circular . "

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THE LIFE OF THE BISHOP OF WINCHESTER . Vol . III .

Some of us , perhaps , better knew the late Bishop of Winchester by the title of the Bishop of Oxford ; and some of us may well remember his pleasant presence and the " Attic salt" with what he was wont to season his always effective conversation . No one , as the French say , was a better " raconteur , " —a teller of stories ; no one ever delivered

his witty or pointed , or impressive little speeches in society with more " verve , " or more realism , or more actual effect . It was said at one lime that he was an " actor , " that his outcome in speech was " mimetic " and prepared ; but nothing was more untrue . His wit was alike spontaneous and genial , neat and original , kindly and apt ; and you hardly ever heard him say a severe thing , and , certainly , never an ill-natured thing of anybody . We think , however ; that the

editor has been gunty in this volume of grave indiscretion in respect of his father's memory , and has been forgetful of the chief duty of a careful supervisor of special literary extracts from the lives and records , the sayings and doings of the defunct , which is to curtail rather than to expand , to suppress rather than dilate . People who keep diaries , not even excepting bishops , arc still mortal , and not exempt from the little miseries and drawbacks of humanity . The diaries we call our own arc not always written

in the same humour , or in the same kindly frame of mind as regards others or ourselves . A touch of the liver , an attack of lumbago , a fit of the gout , a prevalence of indigestion , will make us look at things with " the saffron hue" of sickly thought , " and at such moments wc affect to be discontented with the world and ourselves , and are often very unjust towards others . Many of the injudicious paragraphs thus unwisely printed are distinctly wanting in the needful characteristics of fitness , reality , veracity , without which the "Ana " of the most assiduous

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diarist degenerate into idle gossip or perverse twaddle . Many of these passages to which exception has been taken and attention called , ought to have been suppressed , and serious responsibility rests upon the editor for giving to the world passages which , sparing no one , can only hurt the feelings of many . And then comes the still more serious fact , they are not correct , and thus detract from the brichtness

of the good Bishop ' s portraiture . These " epea pteroenta " ought never to have been . printed , we repeat . Some of the sayings are very good , such as when Lady Burdett Coutts asks , " I suppose , Bishop , you do not know what a drysalter is ? " " Oh , yes , " replied the Bishop , " Tate and Brady . " So , too , his encounters with Lord Westbury are very amusing . As , when , for instance , Lord Westbury " met him after

his resignation , and said , " Have I met thee , O mine enemy ? " " Do you remember the rest of the quotation ?" replied the Bishop . "See I . Kings xxi . 20 . " YVhen the Bishop wrote to him about a Clergy Resignation Bill , and , among other causes , mentioned loss of mental faculties , Lord Westbury replies , "he could not contemplate such a contingency , as he had never met any clergyman who had any mind , except his lordship . "

KELLY'S POST OFFICE DIRECTORY . This most valuable book of reference for London and Londoners is in , we believe , its eighty-fourth year of appearance , and is equall y useful as needful . Its great bulk may be somewhat objectionable , but it can nowjbc obtained in two volumes . It chronicles , among other changesthe striking

, facts that eleven streets have been renamed , eighteen have been renumbered , eighty-two new names of streets have been given in 1 SS 2 . It has other features of interest , and is alike indispensable for all offices and libraries , as well as for all who are interested in the whereabouts of individuals in the "little village . "

DIARIES AND POCKET BOOKS . These are so many that it almost becomes hopeless to commend and useless to criticize . Most people treat themselves to , or are treated to by others , with a pocket book . We arc inclined to think that experience seems to be setting in against diaries , seeing how much annoyance is often caused by posthumous revelations and careless

extracts . We may mention among the industrious caterers " pro bono publico " Messrs . De la Rue and Co ., Messrs . T . and J . Smith and Co ., Messrs . Hudson and Kearn ( famous for blotting pads ) , Messrs . Charles Letts and Co ., Messrs . Harrison and Sons , "cum multis aliis . " We can also mention with pleasure the City Diary of Messrs . Collinridge and Co . The two Masonic Pocket Books appeal forcibly to our Cosmopolitan Craft . Whitaker ' s Almanack

is well-known to many , while the Law and Commercial Diary of Messrs . Dunn and Co . has many devotees and clients . We venture to think that , except as business memos , " cues " to the memory of financial or other rates , diaries are better used sparingly . The long paragraphs which they often contain of conscious and unconscious selfconfession and self-laudation , are neither good for ourselves after all , nor for others . But on this , as on many other matters , there will be great divergence of opinion .

CHRISTMAS BOOKS . We must all be struck with the abundance of Christmas books , of a special Christmas literature , which appeals so forcibl y and pleasurably to the artistic tastes and cultured souvenirs of us all , young and old alike . Indeed , the appearance of our Christmas literature is a fact in itself of moment and meaning worth noting . Time wasas some of us can

, testify , when such things as Christmas cards , Christmas books , & c , were unknown . Even a quarter of a century back they were not in existence . Perhaps some few tales were specially published ; indeed , we believe Charles Dickc ns set the taste . But the present system of literary and artistic Christmas offerings was unheard of . We do not object to it ; on the contrary we approve of it : though we think it riirht to

say this , that it may be a question how far such devotion to , and profusion of a specific and passing literature , acts favourably either on artistic tastes or literary proclivities . That we may have too much even of a good thing is a fact some of ns are apt to forget ; but as this season is not one for grumbling or growling , or fault-finding or hypcrcriticism , let us take things as

we hnd them , and be contented , genial , and happy . Messrs . Routledge seem to have the sway in Christmas literature for the young . We note approvingly their numerous issues , alike admirably printed and artistically designed . Among numerous specimens of good reading and excellent taste , we may note " Grimm ' s Fairy Tales , " " Evenings at Home , " " Dinglcficld , " "The Rev . XV . C . Adams ' s

Travellers' Tales , " " Jcannette , " "Jumbo ' s Picture Book , " " Those Boys , " ' " Those Girls , " " Little Lays for Little Folk , " "The New House that Jack Built , " & c Dean and Son give us , with vividly coloured illustrations , "Sunny Hours and Pretty Flowers , " "Tiny Lawn

Tennis , " and " The Children ' s Kettle Drum . " "The Prince of the Hundred Songs , " by Mr . Vernon Lee , is a very effective work , and so arc " Caldecott ' s Songs , " "The Battery and the Boiler , " "The Girl ' s Own Book , " " The History of the Bible , " and many more , like " At Home" and "A Day in a Child ' s Life . "

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