Notes On Literature, Science, And Art.

Tho * all else fade or vanish daily , Let ' s live for others even here , Not for ourselves—aud then serenely , We pass through every fading year . ' For here—this Life is a foreshadowing Of a great future yet to be . ;

Those Avond ' rous powers and bless'd affections Shall then proclaim , Eternity . "

True Masonic sentiments these , ancl expressed Avith a beautiful simplicity , of which even AVordsAVorth need not have been ashamed . , In " . AnRevoir" he sings ( what many of us have felt ) : —

" Oh ! mystery strange of human Life That nothing here will stay ; That all Ave love the dearest Is sure to pass away . Oh , Avoiid ' rous law of this our Earth , Whose reason none can tell , Which , clay by day , removes in turn Those things Ave love so well . "

Again ;—' ' A vacant place is at the board , We look on an empty chair , We iniss-the . brave , the noble , W ? grieve for the fond , the fair ; But true affection still can keep , Iu memory fresh and true , _ Tho vision of those forms and faces All faded from our A'iew 1 "

And again : — " Yes ! even now a gentle Avhisper Is falling on the ear , And to our heart's emotions . Their presence still is near ; .. Ancl from these nether scenes of earth ,

And many a sad . good-bye , We look in ardent hope and trust Beyond that radiant sky . To where fond hearts again shall meet , Where , in that brighter sphere , AVe once again shall greet those friends We loved so truly here . "

Ihese quotations are all taken from the first eighty pages of the book , Avhich consists of 250 . 1 have gone carefully , and not reluctantly , through the whole , and marked numerous other passages for extract , even to the last page , but must reserve them , for . a future notice , otherwise my communication will stand a fair chance of

Notes On Literature, Science, And Art.

being put aside for want of space , . to some indefinite period , if not . consigned to ' the waste-paper basket . ' and helping to kindle the editor ' s fire , —the only Avay in Avhich it will then help to scatter . " morelight" on the world . Mr . Joseph Shepherd , ' the intelligent Secretary of the . North Yorkshire

Miners' Association , has shoAvn and explained to me a model of the excellent Patent Safety Detached Hook , invented by Mr . William AValker , mining engineer , of Saltburn-by-the-Sea , which is : a preventittve of over-winding , completely securing

the lives of human beings , from that aAvful catastrophe , by a mode I hope to explain anon . The adoption of this Patent Safet y Detaching Hook ought to be , rendered compulsory on all OAvners or lessees of mines throughout the Avorld ..-liose Cottage , Stokesley ,

Address Of The V. H. And E. Sir Kt. Col. W. J. B. Macleod Moore,

ADDRESS OF THE V . H . AND E . SIR KT . COL . W . J . B . MACLEOD MOORE ,

Grand Cross of the Temple : Grand Prior of ' the Dominionof ' Canada , ( Concludedfrom pygc 240 . ) -. The Rev . Canon Septimus Ramsay , M . A-i of NeAvmarketOnt . a scholar of high and

, , varied attainments , a divine of powerful eloquence , ancl a deeply read . Mason , AVIIO was admitted into the order in the "Mount Calvary Encampment , O'rillia , Ont ., mid held the past rank of District Provincial Commander of the former Grand Conclave ;

and Sir Knight Arthur M . Sowden , a member of the Richard Ccenr de Lion of Montreal Preeeptory , and a past grand officer of Grand Conclave , have also died within the last feAv months , both English by birth , who had made Canada their home . Sir Kniht Sowden was a promising and

g most talented civil engineer , and held the office of city engineer of the city of OfctaAva ; on his death the municipal authorities of that city passed resolutions , paying a handsome and well-deserved compliment to his talents and indefatigable attention to the

duties of his office , — "That Ave shall die , Ave know ; 'tis hut the time ¦¦¦ -. > And drawing days out , that men stand upon , " .