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long as you are able to pay the trifling-premium to a respectable and wellestablished office . As we have said before , in all the ' smashes' and * amalgamations / whatever the shareholders mayhave suffered , the policyholders have come off scot free . This is a fact which cannot be too often repeated , and ought never to be lost sight of in the discussion of insurance
questions , contradictory as it may appear / the provision made by a lite policy is just as valuable because it is gradual , as because it is rapid . For IjLowever anomalous the assertion may seem , it possesses both qualities in exactly equal proportions . It is rapid , because if the assured died next day he is sure of all the money ; and it is gradual , because if he should live for 90 years he has only the same small sum to pay , year after year , and is not called upon to make his navments in a lumt ) but by graduated
instalments of an easy kind at certain stipulated periodical intervals . In fact , cases are not rare in which theassured has had his premium so diminished by the application of continual bonuses to that desirable object , that for the last few years of his life he has had nothing at all to pay ; on the contrary , the sum assured has been undergoing yearly additions from the divisible profits on the company ' s transactions . While thus the provision made by a policy of insurance is so rapid that it is impossible to conceive any thing more so , it is at the same time so gradual that it is not felt as any hardship , "
The American Freemason . Bro . J . F . Brennan , Louisville , Kentucky . — Kos . 1 and 2 of the volume for 1858 of this work have just reached us , being the commencement of the sixth volume , which is certainly a great improvement with regard to form on its predecessors , the size being that of the freemasons Magazine . Nor is the improvement confined to the form only , tis the work is replete with Masonic intelligence and Masonic lore . As a specimen of its original literature , we have transferred to our pages an article on Masonic Legends , by Bro . Yates of New York , which will be sure to be
* ead with interest . The work , however , is not confined solely to literature for the Craft , but has thrown into it a spice of romance for the general deader and the fairer portion of creation . The opening article , " Romance of American Masonic History , " purports to be a faithful history of Morgan , whose mysterious disappearance some years since caused so much excitement in America as to make it dangerous for any person to acknowledge himself a Mason . The work has not proceeded far enough to enable us to pronounce a positive opinion with regard to it , but it seems likely to prove an exciting and interesting romance . " Cyril Dormer ; or the Widow ' s Son / 5 also promises well . '
The Masonic Mirror and Keystone . Bro . Hyneinan , New York and Philadelphia . —After a long absence , we have great pleasure in seeing upon our table a packet of the numbers of this excellent American Masonic serial . It is full of interesting Masonic intelligence , much of which , possessing interest for the Brethren at this side the water , we shall have great pleasure in presenting through our cohimns to those English readers who are not likely otherwise to meet with it .
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Reviews Of New Books
long as you are able to pay the trifling-premium to a respectable and wellestablished office . As we have said before , in all the ' smashes' and * amalgamations / whatever the shareholders mayhave suffered , the policyholders have come off scot free . This is a fact which cannot be too often repeated , and ought never to be lost sight of in the discussion of insurance
questions , contradictory as it may appear / the provision made by a lite policy is just as valuable because it is gradual , as because it is rapid . For IjLowever anomalous the assertion may seem , it possesses both qualities in exactly equal proportions . It is rapid , because if the assured died next day he is sure of all the money ; and it is gradual , because if he should live for 90 years he has only the same small sum to pay , year after year , and is not called upon to make his navments in a lumt ) but by graduated
instalments of an easy kind at certain stipulated periodical intervals . In fact , cases are not rare in which theassured has had his premium so diminished by the application of continual bonuses to that desirable object , that for the last few years of his life he has had nothing at all to pay ; on the contrary , the sum assured has been undergoing yearly additions from the divisible profits on the company ' s transactions . While thus the provision made by a policy of insurance is so rapid that it is impossible to conceive any thing more so , it is at the same time so gradual that it is not felt as any hardship , "
The American Freemason . Bro . J . F . Brennan , Louisville , Kentucky . — Kos . 1 and 2 of the volume for 1858 of this work have just reached us , being the commencement of the sixth volume , which is certainly a great improvement with regard to form on its predecessors , the size being that of the freemasons Magazine . Nor is the improvement confined to the form only , tis the work is replete with Masonic intelligence and Masonic lore . As a specimen of its original literature , we have transferred to our pages an article on Masonic Legends , by Bro . Yates of New York , which will be sure to be
* ead with interest . The work , however , is not confined solely to literature for the Craft , but has thrown into it a spice of romance for the general deader and the fairer portion of creation . The opening article , " Romance of American Masonic History , " purports to be a faithful history of Morgan , whose mysterious disappearance some years since caused so much excitement in America as to make it dangerous for any person to acknowledge himself a Mason . The work has not proceeded far enough to enable us to pronounce a positive opinion with regard to it , but it seems likely to prove an exciting and interesting romance . " Cyril Dormer ; or the Widow ' s Son / 5 also promises well . '
The Masonic Mirror and Keystone . Bro . Hyneinan , New York and Philadelphia . —After a long absence , we have great pleasure in seeing upon our table a packet of the numbers of this excellent American Masonic serial . It is full of interesting Masonic intelligence , much of which , possessing interest for the Brethren at this side the water , we shall have great pleasure in presenting through our cohimns to those English readers who are not likely otherwise to meet with it .