Notes On Literature, Science, And Art.

churches are testifying that we are a historical people , that we have persons and principles , ideas ancl events , to remember . But the true basis of memorial art is easily recognized , and all attempts to gather collections of art without a historical purpose and . connection are meagre ancl unsatisfactory—either in danger of becoming affairs of personal or family pride , or of dainty taste ancl capricious curiosity . We need the truer view of art that shall make the whole city historical , ancl enable us to

remember our national aud local benefactors by generous association without obtruding private personality . Our halls , galleries , academies , parks , churches , ancl our great stores and markets , should tell a story of the old time and the new . Art , that has all times for' its own , should make up for the lack of antiquarian relics , ancl a great building dedicated to history shoidd be sacred to art , which is the daughter of history and the recorder of life . . . . With its reverses and disappointments , this city keens

and exalts its place as the centre of American life and thought and enterprise . Its press ancl its pulpit , as well as its bar and medical faculty , its schools aud its commerce , gain power over the whole nation . With all of our temptations aud extravagances , our people have not lost their head , nor forgotten their birthri ght . The best men are finding each other out ; the native American blood is . assimilating the best foreign elements , ancl public opinion is becoming more patriotic , and religion

is more truly catholic . You know how to put down a mob , and to crush a threatening treason , and you are not likely to unlearn that well-tried manhood . There is an old-fashioned loyalty to good institutions , with generous sense of what -is due to the spirit of the new age . There is a peculiar largeness ancl geniality here that is correcting our excessive individualism , and giving promise of earnest life and original spirit in our culture and fellowship . We have not forgotten the God of our fathers . He is with us as with them . In this faith we interpret life and its record in this generation . "

According to a report of the Provincial Grand Lodge of Wiltshire , given m the Freemason of November 16 th , 1878 , "Bro . P . H . Goldney , the Provincial Grand Treasurer , afterwards said that he had prepared a History of Freemasonry in tlie Province of Wiltshire . To save time , be would not read it , but he begged to present it to Lord Metbuen [ the Prov . G . M . ] , ancl he would afterwards have it printed for distribution . The History had been some little trouble to get up , as the records of Ereemasonry in the Province were few and scattered before the time that his Lordship

undertook the government of the Province . Bro . Goldney then presented the manuscript to Lord Metbuen . " This is as it should be ; ancl not only will every intelligent Mason in the Province of Wiltshire feel indebted to Bro . Goldney for undertaking such a task , but I for one cannot but wish that the same was done for every Province in the United Kingdom and its Colonies .

The first Will in the English language now known to exist is dated in the year 1463 , ancl deposited in the Ecclesiastical Court at Bury St . Edmunds . There are few men so well acquainted with all that relates to the interesting district of Weardale , in the county of Durham , as William Morley Egg lestone ; for he has made its history and topography his favourite study for years . Knowing this when be announced , for publication by subscription , his Stanhope Memorials of Bishop

Butler , I was bold enough to say that the work would be looked for with interest , ancl the result has justified the prediction . Dean Stanlej * , preaching in the fine old Cathedral of Durham , on the twenty-fifth of March , 1878 , spoke of Bishop Butler as " the greatest prelate who ever filled this see of Durham— -the greatest theologm " ) in some respects , that ever adorned the English Church ; " and Bartlett has remarked that the life ancl character of Butler " is not to be regarded the exclusive property

as of any section or party in the Church of Christ , but as the common property ot Christendom : " two passages which Mr . Egglestone has appropriately taken as mottoes for his book , which no personal friend of the good Bishop could have comp iled J a more reverent spirit . "The fact alone that Butler ' s Analogy was written a Stanhope , in the County of Durham , " says our author , "is enough to make tlif