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Brympton , Somersetshire ; part of the Church of St . Catharine Cree , Leadenhall-street ? , a Bridge of Gwydder , in Wales ; Drumlanrig Castle , Dumfriesshire ; Heriot ' s Hospital , Edinburgh ; and the more modem part of Glamniis Castle , T ' orfarshire , & c .

The Signs Ov England;

THE SIGNS OV ENGLAND ;

BY ONE WHO HAS PAINTED MANY . SIGN THE FOURTH . — -PUBLIC PLACE-HUNTERS AND JOBBERS IN GENERAL .

Men " , really , in these latter days , would almost seem , to go out of the way to give themselves trouble : they do this in their vices ; they

do it in the wrong they commit . A good , honest , straightforward life is supposed to be conducive to health and long continuance in this pleasant mortal being . People who are not always setting traps to catch their neighbours , must be less fixed in ugly work , and less engrossed uncomfortably , than those who have their hands full of wires whose meaning is mischief , and whose success is some person ' s undoing . "We never thought a rat-catcher a happy man ; we never

imagined that those who dig pits for others , found much pleasure in admiring the mere fresh , natural green grass with which they cover the hole . Actual strabismus is accounted an unsightly thing ; but there is so much moral squinting , or wilful aversion from the positively true aspect of things , that , neither in political nor private circles , is anything thought about it as disadvantageous ; it is rather , we think , looked upon as an ornament , and it is praised , with the usual approval of what this good tolerant world calls success , as

" sharp sight . " Now , we are disposed to quarrel with this universal winking . "We question its righteousness , though it runs through the public world and through private society . Human life is not to be altogether made up of dodges . Our governors shall not make ninepins of us . It is not at all necessary that we—every man of us—should be straining with prolonged neck round a corner , and that , with eager eyes , we should watch an opportunity of taking our fellows at a disadvantage . "We are not to he like the Clown in the Pantomime ; placing blandly in , and closing the fist of our friend upon , a worthless stone , while we

are smuggling , behind us , that money-box which we have deluded out of the gripe of his other unconscious hand . We are not , with all that suavity—our face prying affectionately into his—to inquire , with all apparent interest , how that respectable parent " his mother * is ; whilst , like the wicked Motley in gay chalk and red dots , with our hands embracing him , we strip the very coat from off the passenger ' s back . It is against the law of right so to " smile and smile , and be a villain . ' And , besides , it is very clumsy work , avd

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MASONIC REFOEM. Article 1
BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES OF CELBREATBD FREEMASONS. Article 3
THE SIGNS OV ENGLAND; Article 13
NOTES OF A YACHT'S CRUISE TO BALAKLAVA. Article 17
THE ANTIQUITY OF FREEMASONRY. Article 24
REVIEWS OF NEW BOOKS, Article 25
MUSIC. Article 27
CORRESPONDENCE. Article 29
THE PRINTERS' ALMSHOUSES. Article 36
THE MASONIC MIRROR. Article 37
METROPOLITAN. Article 46
INSTRUCTION. Article 52
PROVINCIAL. Article 57
ROYAL ARCH. Article 74
KNIGHTS TEMPLAR. Article 78
SCOTLAND Article 80
COLONIAL Article 81
AMERICA. Article 81
SUMMARY OF NEWS FOR MAY. Article 83
Obituary. Article 87
NOTICE. Article 88
TO CORRESPONDENTS. Article 88
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Brympton , Somersetshire ; part of the Church of St . Catharine Cree , Leadenhall-street ? , a Bridge of Gwydder , in Wales ; Drumlanrig Castle , Dumfriesshire ; Heriot ' s Hospital , Edinburgh ; and the more modem part of Glamniis Castle , T ' orfarshire , & c .

The Signs Ov England;

THE SIGNS OV ENGLAND ;

BY ONE WHO HAS PAINTED MANY . SIGN THE FOURTH . — -PUBLIC PLACE-HUNTERS AND JOBBERS IN GENERAL .

Men " , really , in these latter days , would almost seem , to go out of the way to give themselves trouble : they do this in their vices ; they

do it in the wrong they commit . A good , honest , straightforward life is supposed to be conducive to health and long continuance in this pleasant mortal being . People who are not always setting traps to catch their neighbours , must be less fixed in ugly work , and less engrossed uncomfortably , than those who have their hands full of wires whose meaning is mischief , and whose success is some person ' s undoing . "We never thought a rat-catcher a happy man ; we never

imagined that those who dig pits for others , found much pleasure in admiring the mere fresh , natural green grass with which they cover the hole . Actual strabismus is accounted an unsightly thing ; but there is so much moral squinting , or wilful aversion from the positively true aspect of things , that , neither in political nor private circles , is anything thought about it as disadvantageous ; it is rather , we think , looked upon as an ornament , and it is praised , with the usual approval of what this good tolerant world calls success , as

" sharp sight . " Now , we are disposed to quarrel with this universal winking . "We question its righteousness , though it runs through the public world and through private society . Human life is not to be altogether made up of dodges . Our governors shall not make ninepins of us . It is not at all necessary that we—every man of us—should be straining with prolonged neck round a corner , and that , with eager eyes , we should watch an opportunity of taking our fellows at a disadvantage . "We are not to he like the Clown in the Pantomime ; placing blandly in , and closing the fist of our friend upon , a worthless stone , while we

are smuggling , behind us , that money-box which we have deluded out of the gripe of his other unconscious hand . We are not , with all that suavity—our face prying affectionately into his—to inquire , with all apparent interest , how that respectable parent " his mother * is ; whilst , like the wicked Motley in gay chalk and red dots , with our hands embracing him , we strip the very coat from off the passenger ' s back . It is against the law of right so to " smile and smile , and be a villain . ' And , besides , it is very clumsy work , avd

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