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Notes On Literature, Science, And Art.
full milking , more than tivo quarts a day . The value of their milk for children and invalids has been admitted in all ages ; their milk makes excellent cheese alone , without the mixture of any other , and the whey is particularly nourishing and wholesome , as well as the curd which is produced a second time from boding the whey . Eads are always marketable , being excellent food , and their skins very valuable . " Why should not the mdk of goats—so much richer than that of cows—become a common article of trade in every town ? I know that a little put into a cup of coffee is equal to the cream from that of cows .
All that relates to the work of our ancient operative brethren shoidd be of interest to every Freemason . Of Thebes , Mr . A . Henry Ehind , F . S . A ., remarks , that its " period of greatest glory may be said to have been spread between fifteen hundred years and eleven hundred years before the Christian era . There are , indeed , imbedded in the mass of temples at Karnac , a few pillars of the time of Osirtasen I ., whose date goes back to two thousand years before Christ ; and half-buried fragments have been observed
by Sir G . Wilkinson at El Assasseef , near the Memnonium , with the name of a preceding -king , giving tangible evidence of full vitality , under the earlier of the Theban dynasties , whose memory the historic lists ancl genealogies have preserved . But it was during the reigns of the eighteenth , nineteenth , and twentieth of . those dynasties that the city , and indeed Egypt , attained their zenith . Then it was that all those temples were reared , whose existence the foregoing hasty glance at their sites will recall , and although
they were in some cases the subject of repairs and additions in subsequent years , their early splendour was barely maintained , rather than surpassed . It was then also that Egyptian influence was more dominant than ever before or afterwards , within the range of our knowledge , and really filled a cycle in the history of those eastern regions . " And he adds , as showing its great antiquity , that "during the period of Thebes' greatest vigourthe home of the HeUenic peopleif not itself absolutelunletteredleft no heritage
, _ , y , of writing . And when , somewhat later , the poems of Homer appear , as the first instalment of Greek literature , we have , indeed , presented to us a dim vision of the power and splendour of Thebes , by a twice-repeated reference to its wealth , "—alluding to the Lliad ix . 381 , and the Odyssey iv . 126 .
I am glad to see that Bro . W . F . Lamonby , P . M ., P . Prov . G . Eeg ., etc ., is about to publish , in a five shilling volume , a History of Graft Masonry in Cumberland and Westmoreland , from 1740 to [ the Present Day . As the work is " compiled from Provincial and Private Lodge Records , Grand ' Lodge Documents , and other authentic sources , " it will be a valuable acquisition to that small stock of real Masonic historical literature with which reliable writers like Bro . Hughan , "Masonic Student , " aud others ,
are seeking in this country to supersede the fabidous romances palmed upon mankind as the real chronicles of the Craft by writers of the Bro . Oliver school , who have coolly given us fancies for facts . The true history of Freemasonry , so far as it can be eoni ' e at , is interesting enough for any inquiring mind without resorting to fictions . which only in the end bring odium instead of honour . Strange that in an Order which inculcates Truth as one of its principal foundation stonesso who have ht to
, many soug become its _ poets and historians should have so little regarded the point within the circle . I sincerely wish success to Bro . Lamonb y in his searches into the History of Craft Masonry in Cumberland and Westmoreland , ancl hope that other competent brethren will do the same for every other Province , as we sadl y want " more light" thereon .
Dr . Newman remarks that "the valley of the Euphrates is destined to become one of the greatest commercial aud important political centres of the world . I have myself , " he adds , "seen whole caravans travelling through this region , bearing nothing but American petroleum . American petroleum now li ghts up the dark places of Nineveh , of Jerusalem , and all . the cities of the East . " Londesborough Park is one of those places in my native county which I have yet to see ; and , judging from the following fine pastoral poem , describing " a sylvan nook " therein—which I cull from the Lyrics , by the Eev . Richard Wilton , M . A ., noticed in the
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Notes On Literature, Science, And Art.
full milking , more than tivo quarts a day . The value of their milk for children and invalids has been admitted in all ages ; their milk makes excellent cheese alone , without the mixture of any other , and the whey is particularly nourishing and wholesome , as well as the curd which is produced a second time from boding the whey . Eads are always marketable , being excellent food , and their skins very valuable . " Why should not the mdk of goats—so much richer than that of cows—become a common article of trade in every town ? I know that a little put into a cup of coffee is equal to the cream from that of cows .
All that relates to the work of our ancient operative brethren shoidd be of interest to every Freemason . Of Thebes , Mr . A . Henry Ehind , F . S . A ., remarks , that its " period of greatest glory may be said to have been spread between fifteen hundred years and eleven hundred years before the Christian era . There are , indeed , imbedded in the mass of temples at Karnac , a few pillars of the time of Osirtasen I ., whose date goes back to two thousand years before Christ ; and half-buried fragments have been observed
by Sir G . Wilkinson at El Assasseef , near the Memnonium , with the name of a preceding -king , giving tangible evidence of full vitality , under the earlier of the Theban dynasties , whose memory the historic lists ancl genealogies have preserved . But it was during the reigns of the eighteenth , nineteenth , and twentieth of . those dynasties that the city , and indeed Egypt , attained their zenith . Then it was that all those temples were reared , whose existence the foregoing hasty glance at their sites will recall , and although
they were in some cases the subject of repairs and additions in subsequent years , their early splendour was barely maintained , rather than surpassed . It was then also that Egyptian influence was more dominant than ever before or afterwards , within the range of our knowledge , and really filled a cycle in the history of those eastern regions . " And he adds , as showing its great antiquity , that "during the period of Thebes' greatest vigourthe home of the HeUenic peopleif not itself absolutelunletteredleft no heritage
, _ , y , of writing . And when , somewhat later , the poems of Homer appear , as the first instalment of Greek literature , we have , indeed , presented to us a dim vision of the power and splendour of Thebes , by a twice-repeated reference to its wealth , "—alluding to the Lliad ix . 381 , and the Odyssey iv . 126 .
I am glad to see that Bro . W . F . Lamonby , P . M ., P . Prov . G . Eeg ., etc ., is about to publish , in a five shilling volume , a History of Graft Masonry in Cumberland and Westmoreland , from 1740 to [ the Present Day . As the work is " compiled from Provincial and Private Lodge Records , Grand ' Lodge Documents , and other authentic sources , " it will be a valuable acquisition to that small stock of real Masonic historical literature with which reliable writers like Bro . Hughan , "Masonic Student , " aud others ,
are seeking in this country to supersede the fabidous romances palmed upon mankind as the real chronicles of the Craft by writers of the Bro . Oliver school , who have coolly given us fancies for facts . The true history of Freemasonry , so far as it can be eoni ' e at , is interesting enough for any inquiring mind without resorting to fictions . which only in the end bring odium instead of honour . Strange that in an Order which inculcates Truth as one of its principal foundation stonesso who have ht to
, many soug become its _ poets and historians should have so little regarded the point within the circle . I sincerely wish success to Bro . Lamonb y in his searches into the History of Craft Masonry in Cumberland and Westmoreland , ancl hope that other competent brethren will do the same for every other Province , as we sadl y want " more light" thereon .
Dr . Newman remarks that "the valley of the Euphrates is destined to become one of the greatest commercial aud important political centres of the world . I have myself , " he adds , "seen whole caravans travelling through this region , bearing nothing but American petroleum . American petroleum now li ghts up the dark places of Nineveh , of Jerusalem , and all . the cities of the East . " Londesborough Park is one of those places in my native county which I have yet to see ; and , judging from the following fine pastoral poem , describing " a sylvan nook " therein—which I cull from the Lyrics , by the Eev . Richard Wilton , M . A ., noticed in the