Notes On Literature, Science And Art.

himself . To understand the Conquest , we must understand the condition of Saxon-Bnn-land ; aud to know these , we must go back to the coining of the Saxons into Britain ; we must study their purpose and their growing polity ; their efforts towards

confederation ; their conversion to Latin Christianity ; the supremacy of AVessex , which led to consolidation ; the growth of their constitution and laws ; and the logical development , from free principles , of the Saxon monarchy and

aristocracytitles of simple government or command becoming infallibly titles of hereditary nobility . " A "large field , " as Dr . Coppee admits , but one , nevertheless , to be carefully examined by the real student of English history . The true Freemason

needs no teaching as to the value of education in fitting us to become useful members of civilized society : it is one of the first lessons of the Craft . But we have all a

great deal to learn as to how much farther education can be carried than we wot of . E . M . Gallaudet gives an instance , which fell under his own notice some years since , of " a girl who had been held as a household drudge or slave by her family , till iu her sixteenth year she was broughtat the

, instance of her humane nei ghbours , to a school where she might be taught . On entering she presented evidences of idiocy that were thought to be unmistakable . Premature decrepitude of form , with crookedclaw-shaped fingersand a face

, , utterly expressionless , were taken as plain tokens of mental feebleness . A few months , however , of the ordinary treatment of a deaf-mute institution , wrought what seemed almost a miracle . Rest from exhausting

labour allowed the fingers to relax , and the form to straighten ; kindness lighted smiles in a face that had lost , if it had ever possessed , the power of changing its expression ; patient instruction reached at length the awakened intellect , and at the

end of a year , eager happy intelligence was in process of healthy development , where there seemed before to have been no germ of mental life . " Mr . Besant ' s interesting paper , on "The Survey of Palestine , " is alone worth double the rice of the Review

p , and must be read entire to be properly appreciated . Jerusalem is too intimately connected with the teachings and legends of the Craft , ever to become an object of indifference to any true and faithful brother amongst us .

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At the commencement of the year , Air . James Clayton , of Bradford , began to issue a monthly literary periodical , under the title of the Torlahireinan , " with a view , " he informs us , " of providing a succession of stories , essays , sketches , poems ,

humorous papers , dialect pieces , & c , which shall be especially interesting to Yorkshiremen . " The publication is very neatly printed , and is supported by much local talent . When I have carefully read the nine numbers before me I may have more

to say about it . In the meantime , I sincerely wish Mr . Clayton better success than was my own in attempting to establish a literary periodical for my natii-e county . Certainly thirty years of improved education has not only very much increased the ability , but also the taste for reading .

But , though encouraged by the free-will offerings of literary contributions from writers like Charles Swain , Bernard , Barton , Grace Aguilar , Ebeuezer Elliott , Spencer T . Hall , E . M . Heavisides , John Walker Ord , John Critchley Prince , John Bolton

Rogerson , Mrs . F . B . Scott , January Searle , Camilla Toulmin , aud others , and with the most favourable notices from the reviewers , after three years' hard labour of head and hands , not only were my efforts unrewarded , but I was a heavy sum out of

pocket for a poor man . And yet—though it hung a millstone round my neck—Tweddell's Yorkshire Miscellany is a publication I can look back upon , after thirty years' experience , as a work not to be ashamed of , and one to which I have been indebted for the sympathy of many congenial souls . Rose Cottage , Stokesley .

The Etruscan Language

THE ETRUSCAN LANGUAGE

ON this interesting subject a very able paper , illustrated by diagrams , was on the 21 st June , read by the Rev . Isaac Taylor , at a meeting of the Victoria Philosophical Institute , held at the house of the Society of Arts , Johu- » t , Adelp hi . The rev .

lecturer began his paper by adverting to the difficulty of the interpretation of the Etruscan language , a problem ivhich Niebuhr , who had rightly recognised its vast importance , deemed insoluble . It was the only great problem of the kind