Tom Hood.

of tune no one could detect him , especially as he made a point of refusing all encores . Some one indulging in a rhapsody on music , suddenly turned upon Hood , who didn ' t sympathise , and said patronisingly , " Ah ! you know you ' ve no musical

enthusiasm ; you don't know what it is !" It was dangerous to snubb Hood , whose reply was characteristic in its quiet sarcasm . " Oh , yes , 1 do know it—it ' s like turtle soup , for every pint of real you meet with gallons of mock , with calves

heads in proportion . " Hood lived about 3 years at Winchmore Hill , and here , in 1830 , his daughter Fanny , the author of the Memorials , from which I have quoted so much , was born . ( To be continued . )

Identity.

IDENTITY .

THE following clever parody , Scribner tells us , has been going the rounds of New York City for some time . We do not know where it originated . IF you could be , as I think you are , Some other personas others are

, , I should not muse as I gaze to night , Seeking that distant red-rayed star : Another were less bright . For when two mingle their beams for aye , How thought will dartle and then grow

dim : —You see how my star shoots out a ray Now strong and brilliant—now faint and slim , As stars oft have a way . Well—one star less—were a somewhat

more ; But what that more is I cannot tell ; When they shoot , these stars , from the azure shore—( You note where yon crimson traitor fell )

Is their light for ever o'er 1 Aud you , if you could ( as I think you might ) , Be another person , as others be , Would your present being , with all its light Go out ?—be utterly lost for me!—What is 1—and what i 3 right ?

The Origin And References Of The Hermesian Spurious Freemasonry.

THE ORIGIN AND REFERENCES OF THE HERMESIAN SPURIOUS FREEMASONRY .

BY REV . GEO . OLIVER , D . D . CHAPTER XIV . THE REFERENCE TO THE EURESIS OF THE MYSTERIES . " They saw celestial beauty in all the dazzling radiance of its when with the

perfection , , joining glorified chorus , they were admitted to the beatific vision , and were initiated into the most blessed of all mysteries . " - —PLATO .

" Swell loud and deep the choral song , To Mithra ' s praise the notes prolong , Ye sacred guardians of the Eternal Flame , That pure and bright from nature ' s birth Through many a ciroling century have glow'd , Ere first to warm the barren earth , His shining chariot clave the Ethereal'road . Aloft your golden censers raise , And , while a thousand altars blaze , With shouts the conscious Deity proclaim . '' MAURICE .

THERE is one great peculiarity about the temples of heathenism , which cannot failto be noticed by everyone who gives the subject the slightest consideration ; which is , that in their construction , all natural light was carefully excluded , and the

interior was profoundly dark , except when illuminated by the introduction of artificial light . The Holy of Holies in the tabernacle and temple of the Jews is a proof that there was some understood principle in those ages that "the darkness and

light aie both alike with God ;* and that it was in coincidence with the will and pleasure of the Deity , that the divine mysteries of religion should be hidden from the observation of profane persons . The Most Holy Place or Adytum of the

Pagados of the East , was involved in darkness ; whence travellers have observed that " they have more the appearance of the recesses of impure spirits , than of places designed for the exercise of religion . " Indeedthe primitive temples of

, India were caverns , like those of Elephanta and Salsette , being places where darkness eternally reigns . In all nations the most sacred mysteries of religion were celebrated in such sub-