Cosmopolitan Masonic Calendar, Diary And Pocket Book, 1874.

COSMOPOLITAN MASONIC CALENDAR , DIARY AND POCKET BOOK , 1874 .

With the month of December , there falls upon us all a flood-tide of new Calendars and Pocket Books , all symptomatic of the departure of another , and the looming in the " contiguity" ( not distance ) of another

year of time . We confess to feel sometimes sentimental when we are thus reminded that the old year is waning fast , and that a new year is as rapidly draAving near . Old Pocket-books and Calendars hke old friends are to us ever very

pleasant " souvenirs" of a good old past , and in this respect we certainly profess ourselves to be " landatores temporis act ! . "

The entries in the pages , a single word perhaps , a mysterious sentence , or enigmatical note seem sometimes to set us thinking , and memory in her full-tide of " rushing recollections , " takes us back perforce to scenes and faces , and persons , and

events ire had all but forgotten ; to the pleasant presence that charmed us , to the happy meeting which enlivened us , to the forms , and faces , and facts of our own vanished life , sometimes even to a very long , long ago ; yes to thejbnd delusions , to

the dear deluders , to the " car ! luogM " of our youth . But we-must stop , for we are getting far too sentimental . We OAve our enterprising publisher not a few thanks for Ms new and Avell arranged

" Cosmopolitan . " Wherever the Magazine is read , and Avhere is it not ? Ave trust that our kind friends and patrons will also endorse with their approval this useful ' . ' aide memoire " and book of reference to every Freemason . For the " Cosmopolitan "

takes us to foreign lodges and to distant orients ; it unfolds before us the "locale " of numberless foreign jurisdictions and authorities ; and also imparts to all members of the High Grades the names and Avhereabouts of their conclaves and com-

Cosmopolitan Masonic Calendar, Diary And Pocket Book, 1874.

manderies . We think that such a publication is not only very welcome but is in itself a remarkable proof how Freemasonry is spreading . Like Dibdin ' s old " Salt" of a bye-gone epoch , Freemasons can say "in every Land we find a friend , " in

" every Port" a lodge . So with this closing old year and approaching new year we thank Bro . George Kenning for this acceptable contribution to our Masonic information and we trust that he will find Ms labours reAvarded . and his hopes fulfilled in the general and generous patronage of our umversal Brotherhood . W ,

Reviews.

Reviews .

Mackey ' s National Free / mason . We have received the first number of the third volume of " Mackey ' s National Freemason" with very great interest and pleasure . We have also perused with sympathetic feelings the very effective

editorial preface . And Avhile we congratulate the Craft on the re-appearance , in its third year , of our old favourite and valued friend , we trust that such a response may be made by our good brethren in America to the straightforward appeal of the able

editor , that his labours , Avorthy and important as they are , may not be left nnremunerative . It is a very remarkable fact in itself , and one that does credit no less to the heads than the purses of the

American Brotherhood , that all our old Masonic works are rapidly finding their way to the United States . We plead guilty to being "Bibliopolists" and collectors of old pamphlets and MSS ., like " Snuffy Davie " immortalized by Sir Walter Scott , but no sooner do we see a MasoMc book

in a catalogue and send for it or go for it , but the bookseller says Avith a most selfsatisfied smile "too late , sir , gone to America ; remarkable movement just UOAV among the American Freemasons for Masonic Avorks ; pay anything for them I" So Ave wend

homewards musing deeply and saying at intervals " such is life . " To think tha't after all is said and done , all our Masonic illumination and mental activity seem to be . setting back to the far West .