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To Correspondents.
TO CORRESPONDENTS .
Notes and Queries on Eeeemason ^ tlie following passage ? " The whole bubble of Ereemasohfy was shattered in a paper , wdiich I myself threw into a London journal about the year 1828 or 1824 . It was apaper in this sense mine , that frona me it had received fo but the materials belonged to a learned German , Von Buhle ; the same th the Bipont Aristotle , ' and wrote a history of philosophy . No German has any conception of style . I , therefore , did him the favour to wash his dirty nice , and
make him presentable among Christians ; but the substance was drawn entirely frond this German book , It was there established that the whole hoax of Masonry had been invented in the year 1629 , byx > ne A posure could havedropped out of remembrance , is , probably , that it h the public ear , partly because the journal had a limited circulation , but much morebecause title of the paper ^ Si not sp constructed as to indica ^ to throw out any promises of gratification to malice ; " - — " Studies of Secret Records , ' ¦ ¦ ' . ¦ by Thomas de Quincey ) 1858 , p . 267 . ' -H (^' - . Mi ^ le \ js . work ever been translated ? or ' is there wiyother nofa hesidesJ ^ eQitmeey ' sP E , C . ff
[ De Quineey ' s paper , signed X . Y . Z ., is entitled His tori co-Critical Inquiry into the Origin b ^ the fyndon M January , February , March , and June ; 1824 ^ vol . ix . > pp . I , 140 , 256 , and 652 ^ This paper is an abstract and fo ^ slsMon of the German work on this subject , by Professor J . G . Buhle , which is an expansion of
a Latin dissertation read by the professor , in the year 1803 , to the Philosophical Society of Gottingen . Portions of this paper have been reprinted in the Preemason ^ Mdgazyne of March and April , Buhle ' s work has been extensively used by George Soane , in his e < New Curiosities of Literature , "but with very slight acknowledgment . ]
GoBMAaoM , GregOKJANS , Antigallics , Bucks , & c . —Information relative to the principles and practices of all , or any , of these Societies , would be of great value to those , who are , like the querist , intei-esfced in the manners of the last century . To save trouble , the writer knows what has been said of them in the Gentleman ' s Magazine , Steevens ' s t 4 Hogarth , " the ' Dunciad , " Freemasons ' Magazine , Sec . M . C .
Stability Lodge or Insteuotion . —The recent festival held was in celebration of its . forty-first anniversary—not twenty-first , as stated by our reporter . CxiNADA . —We have received a \ further correspondence between the Grand Secretary , Bro . Gray Clarke , and Bro . Harington , late Prov . G . M . for Quebec and the Three Rivers , which shall appear next week .
Lex . '—We are of opinion that the Lodge has no right to pass a by-law providing for regular Lodge nights , and Master Masons' Lodges ; the latter cannot be required regularly , excepting it be for instruction , as the only business that could be performed w ould be raisings , for which purpose it would be better and more regular to call a Lodge of emergency . The minutes of the regular Lodge could not be confirmed at such a meeting , nor at any meeting from which even the youngest member was excluded .
Bro . J . W . H . Tidswell writes to deny that Bro . Pocklington introduced the present system of working in the Hundred of Elloe Lodge , as stated at a recent meeting of the Lodge of Harmony . He also complains that Bro . Pocklington has taken credit to himself for a lecture formerly delivered by him ( Brof Ticjswell ) . The letter is , however , too personal for publication .
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To Correspondents.
TO CORRESPONDENTS .
Notes and Queries on Eeeemason ^ tlie following passage ? " The whole bubble of Ereemasohfy was shattered in a paper , wdiich I myself threw into a London journal about the year 1828 or 1824 . It was apaper in this sense mine , that frona me it had received fo but the materials belonged to a learned German , Von Buhle ; the same th the Bipont Aristotle , ' and wrote a history of philosophy . No German has any conception of style . I , therefore , did him the favour to wash his dirty nice , and
make him presentable among Christians ; but the substance was drawn entirely frond this German book , It was there established that the whole hoax of Masonry had been invented in the year 1629 , byx > ne A posure could havedropped out of remembrance , is , probably , that it h the public ear , partly because the journal had a limited circulation , but much morebecause title of the paper ^ Si not sp constructed as to indica ^ to throw out any promises of gratification to malice ; " - — " Studies of Secret Records , ' ¦ ¦ ' . ¦ by Thomas de Quincey ) 1858 , p . 267 . ' -H (^' - . Mi ^ le \ js . work ever been translated ? or ' is there wiyother nofa hesidesJ ^ eQitmeey ' sP E , C . ff
[ De Quineey ' s paper , signed X . Y . Z ., is entitled His tori co-Critical Inquiry into the Origin b ^ the fyndon M January , February , March , and June ; 1824 ^ vol . ix . > pp . I , 140 , 256 , and 652 ^ This paper is an abstract and fo ^ slsMon of the German work on this subject , by Professor J . G . Buhle , which is an expansion of
a Latin dissertation read by the professor , in the year 1803 , to the Philosophical Society of Gottingen . Portions of this paper have been reprinted in the Preemason ^ Mdgazyne of March and April , Buhle ' s work has been extensively used by George Soane , in his e < New Curiosities of Literature , "but with very slight acknowledgment . ]
GoBMAaoM , GregOKJANS , Antigallics , Bucks , & c . —Information relative to the principles and practices of all , or any , of these Societies , would be of great value to those , who are , like the querist , intei-esfced in the manners of the last century . To save trouble , the writer knows what has been said of them in the Gentleman ' s Magazine , Steevens ' s t 4 Hogarth , " the ' Dunciad , " Freemasons ' Magazine , Sec . M . C .
Stability Lodge or Insteuotion . —The recent festival held was in celebration of its . forty-first anniversary—not twenty-first , as stated by our reporter . CxiNADA . —We have received a \ further correspondence between the Grand Secretary , Bro . Gray Clarke , and Bro . Harington , late Prov . G . M . for Quebec and the Three Rivers , which shall appear next week .
Lex . '—We are of opinion that the Lodge has no right to pass a by-law providing for regular Lodge nights , and Master Masons' Lodges ; the latter cannot be required regularly , excepting it be for instruction , as the only business that could be performed w ould be raisings , for which purpose it would be better and more regular to call a Lodge of emergency . The minutes of the regular Lodge could not be confirmed at such a meeting , nor at any meeting from which even the youngest member was excluded .
Bro . J . W . H . Tidswell writes to deny that Bro . Pocklington introduced the present system of working in the Hundred of Elloe Lodge , as stated at a recent meeting of the Lodge of Harmony . He also complains that Bro . Pocklington has taken credit to himself for a lecture formerly delivered by him ( Brof Ticjswell ) . The letter is , however , too personal for publication .