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shows it to be . inevitable under certain relations of tilings . His concluding address to all , as Christians warring with far worse foes spiritually , than merely nations or their politics , is forcible and practical . Indeed , the whole sermon is replete with evangelical truth and encouragement , and must earn the writer distinction in these days of such general driveldom and inconsistent incompetency .
The Indian Freemasons' Friend . Wo . XII , December 1 , 1855 . Thacker and Co .: Calcutta and London . — -This valuable Masonic publication contains a history of the Lodge No . 279 , and has some admirable remarks upon the necessity of concentrating colonial Grand Lodges , drawn from the evils incident to the Canadian and
Australian Lodges , and from our comments upon the secession of the former . It shows well that the P . G . M . should everywhere be elective , which system prevails tinder the Grand Lodges of Scotland and Ireland ; but England forms the exception : so that while the P . G . M . of Grenada , under the Scottish constitution , can declare that
" the kind suffrages of his Brethren have raised him to his elevated station , " and the P . G . M . of Armagh felicitates himself as being " elected unanimously to his distinguished station , the P . G . M . of Essex is obliged to confess that " his strongest title to that dignity was derivable from the friendly partiality of the G . M . "
Our Indian Brother is quite right , and the success of his periodical we hail most heartily ; it is conducted with equal talent , zeal , and prudence . Doubtless the system in England is toadyism personified ; and if the Brethen permit such a state of rottenness to continue , they deserve to lose the attachment of the colonies , the respect of continental Masons , and the very elements of domestic efficiency and self-esteem .
Putnam s Monthly Magazine of Literature , Science , and Art . New York ; : Dix and Edwards . London : Sampson Low and Son . —This periodical presents to us a startling theory , powerfully but somewhat mistily conceived , as to the author of the plays commonly known as Shakspeare ' s ; a thrilling " ghost ' story ; animated descriptions of the Virginian springs ; low life in the Pampas ; Scamparias
( reeking of Yankee-doodle ) ; a sketch , called Owlcopse ; and some clever poetry and reviews . The latter are particularly worth notice ; and the poetry , also , is far above the ordinary standard . It is a decidedly " go-a-head" publication , and while seeking to amuse and instruct , professes itself the friend of good morals , sound learning , and the most liberal and earnest discussion .
An Address on the Moral and Physical Fvils resulting from a neglect of Sanitary Measures . Delivered by R . IIakiajstd Whiteman , Surgeon . London : Brettell . —The facts that ten thousand deaths and a quarter of a million of cases of sickness occur in the metropolis in one short year , most of them probably preventable : that the annual slaughter in England alone , by causes that are preventable , producing only one disease , viz . typhus fever , is more than
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shows it to be . inevitable under certain relations of tilings . His concluding address to all , as Christians warring with far worse foes spiritually , than merely nations or their politics , is forcible and practical . Indeed , the whole sermon is replete with evangelical truth and encouragement , and must earn the writer distinction in these days of such general driveldom and inconsistent incompetency .
The Indian Freemasons' Friend . Wo . XII , December 1 , 1855 . Thacker and Co .: Calcutta and London . — -This valuable Masonic publication contains a history of the Lodge No . 279 , and has some admirable remarks upon the necessity of concentrating colonial Grand Lodges , drawn from the evils incident to the Canadian and
Australian Lodges , and from our comments upon the secession of the former . It shows well that the P . G . M . should everywhere be elective , which system prevails tinder the Grand Lodges of Scotland and Ireland ; but England forms the exception : so that while the P . G . M . of Grenada , under the Scottish constitution , can declare that
" the kind suffrages of his Brethren have raised him to his elevated station , " and the P . G . M . of Armagh felicitates himself as being " elected unanimously to his distinguished station , the P . G . M . of Essex is obliged to confess that " his strongest title to that dignity was derivable from the friendly partiality of the G . M . "
Our Indian Brother is quite right , and the success of his periodical we hail most heartily ; it is conducted with equal talent , zeal , and prudence . Doubtless the system in England is toadyism personified ; and if the Brethen permit such a state of rottenness to continue , they deserve to lose the attachment of the colonies , the respect of continental Masons , and the very elements of domestic efficiency and self-esteem .
Putnam s Monthly Magazine of Literature , Science , and Art . New York ; : Dix and Edwards . London : Sampson Low and Son . —This periodical presents to us a startling theory , powerfully but somewhat mistily conceived , as to the author of the plays commonly known as Shakspeare ' s ; a thrilling " ghost ' story ; animated descriptions of the Virginian springs ; low life in the Pampas ; Scamparias
( reeking of Yankee-doodle ) ; a sketch , called Owlcopse ; and some clever poetry and reviews . The latter are particularly worth notice ; and the poetry , also , is far above the ordinary standard . It is a decidedly " go-a-head" publication , and while seeking to amuse and instruct , professes itself the friend of good morals , sound learning , and the most liberal and earnest discussion .
An Address on the Moral and Physical Fvils resulting from a neglect of Sanitary Measures . Delivered by R . IIakiajstd Whiteman , Surgeon . London : Brettell . —The facts that ten thousand deaths and a quarter of a million of cases of sickness occur in the metropolis in one short year , most of them probably preventable : that the annual slaughter in England alone , by causes that are preventable , producing only one disease , viz . typhus fever , is more than