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Beviews Of New Books.
BEVIEWS * OF NEW BOOKS ,
[ Publishers are requested to send works for review not later than the 20 th of the month , addressed to the Editor of the " Freemasons' Monthly Magazine , " 74-5 , Grea . t Queen-street , Lincoln ' s-Inn Fields . ] " Principles of Masonic Law" by A . G . Mackey , M . B . S . W . Leonard & Co ., New York . We gratefully acknowledge the publisher ' s courtesy in forwarding to us a very handsome presentation volume of this admirable work : the binding does credit to the contents . Perhaps in the whole range of Masonic
publications we shall vainly look for its parallel in the treatment of that particular subject to which it refers . It is not intended for an encyclopae di a of jurisprudence , deciding every question with reference to its peculiar circumstances ; but as a methodical treatise of the principles upon which all Masonic law is founded . Not merely , therefore , have we the fundamental laws laid down of the institution , hut an admirable eduction of authorities , added to such personal labour and experience of the author himself as cannot fail to render
the book of inestimable value in the eyes of the Masonic brotherhood . "Flemish Interiors" London : Longman and Co . The writer , who signs himself as a Spectator behind the Grilles , has received a just castigation from us , at length , in another paper with which we are connected . Having spent years in Flanders , and watched the nefarious effects of the conventual system , we now repeat what we have declared elsewhere , that the whole aim of the book is , " cotifce que coute , " to discomfit Protestantism : though justice , truth , and
argument are prostrated in the fray , another point equally certain is , that his efforts will rebound against himself . It is the product of a distorted mind , with very shallow notions of religion ; it assumes sensuality for enthusiasm , ascetisra for devotion , and idleness for discharge of duty . It applauds a system which has been ever degrading to man , and condemns one whereby peaceful unobtrusive piety , unintoxicated by fanaticism and unholy passion , seeks to honour God . - "Apparitions , anew Theory" by Newton Orosland . London :
Effingham Wilson . Whatever opinion may be entertained by the reader of this book relative to spiritual influences and appearances , he will at all events do justice to the talent and desire for truth which characterize its tone of argument ; the statements are startling , and the facts , if proved such , certainly establish premises for inevitable conclusions as to direct operation upon us , even corporeally , by essences out of the body . If the tales are true , they admit hardly of any other
explanation apparently than that of their fair reasoning exponent . We demur , however , to some evidences being received , especially that of the hand of a deceased person being placed on the brow of a half-awake friend . It was much more probably in this case a damp towel applied by some attentive watcher by the bedside of "a gent" endeavouring to sleep off the effects of gin-and-water . " Indimi Freemasons' Friend . " Calcutta and London : Thacker and Co . As
usual every page of this capital periodical may be read with profit , if from the May number before us , we except the Controversial Papers , which " are of little value except to the owners . " There is an admirable article on the critics of the day , and a very interesting one upon George Canning , given in the form of a letter , signed " Iyosc- Croix . " The charter of Lodge "Ancient Stirling , " formerly No . 3 , now No . 30 , on the Grand Lodge roll of Scotland , is truly a Masonic curiosity . "How a Penny became a £ 1000 . " London : lloulston and
Stoneman . Ihe fault in books of this class is generally that they assume the reader to be possessed of the very virtues they should suspect him of needing ; namely , care and business habit . Thifl work , however , is essentially practical ; ' it is only wanting in one thing ; namely , universal applicability . It tolls how the artisan , the shopkeeper , the tradesman may got rich ; but if a man is not in a position of buying and Belling , and docs not sit at Lbe table of the vol . n . 4 H
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Beviews Of New Books.
BEVIEWS * OF NEW BOOKS ,
[ Publishers are requested to send works for review not later than the 20 th of the month , addressed to the Editor of the " Freemasons' Monthly Magazine , " 74-5 , Grea . t Queen-street , Lincoln ' s-Inn Fields . ] " Principles of Masonic Law" by A . G . Mackey , M . B . S . W . Leonard & Co ., New York . We gratefully acknowledge the publisher ' s courtesy in forwarding to us a very handsome presentation volume of this admirable work : the binding does credit to the contents . Perhaps in the whole range of Masonic
publications we shall vainly look for its parallel in the treatment of that particular subject to which it refers . It is not intended for an encyclopae di a of jurisprudence , deciding every question with reference to its peculiar circumstances ; but as a methodical treatise of the principles upon which all Masonic law is founded . Not merely , therefore , have we the fundamental laws laid down of the institution , hut an admirable eduction of authorities , added to such personal labour and experience of the author himself as cannot fail to render
the book of inestimable value in the eyes of the Masonic brotherhood . "Flemish Interiors" London : Longman and Co . The writer , who signs himself as a Spectator behind the Grilles , has received a just castigation from us , at length , in another paper with which we are connected . Having spent years in Flanders , and watched the nefarious effects of the conventual system , we now repeat what we have declared elsewhere , that the whole aim of the book is , " cotifce que coute , " to discomfit Protestantism : though justice , truth , and
argument are prostrated in the fray , another point equally certain is , that his efforts will rebound against himself . It is the product of a distorted mind , with very shallow notions of religion ; it assumes sensuality for enthusiasm , ascetisra for devotion , and idleness for discharge of duty . It applauds a system which has been ever degrading to man , and condemns one whereby peaceful unobtrusive piety , unintoxicated by fanaticism and unholy passion , seeks to honour God . - "Apparitions , anew Theory" by Newton Orosland . London :
Effingham Wilson . Whatever opinion may be entertained by the reader of this book relative to spiritual influences and appearances , he will at all events do justice to the talent and desire for truth which characterize its tone of argument ; the statements are startling , and the facts , if proved such , certainly establish premises for inevitable conclusions as to direct operation upon us , even corporeally , by essences out of the body . If the tales are true , they admit hardly of any other
explanation apparently than that of their fair reasoning exponent . We demur , however , to some evidences being received , especially that of the hand of a deceased person being placed on the brow of a half-awake friend . It was much more probably in this case a damp towel applied by some attentive watcher by the bedside of "a gent" endeavouring to sleep off the effects of gin-and-water . " Indimi Freemasons' Friend . " Calcutta and London : Thacker and Co . As
usual every page of this capital periodical may be read with profit , if from the May number before us , we except the Controversial Papers , which " are of little value except to the owners . " There is an admirable article on the critics of the day , and a very interesting one upon George Canning , given in the form of a letter , signed " Iyosc- Croix . " The charter of Lodge "Ancient Stirling , " formerly No . 3 , now No . 30 , on the Grand Lodge roll of Scotland , is truly a Masonic curiosity . "How a Penny became a £ 1000 . " London : lloulston and
Stoneman . Ihe fault in books of this class is generally that they assume the reader to be possessed of the very virtues they should suspect him of needing ; namely , care and business habit . Thifl work , however , is essentially practical ; ' it is only wanting in one thing ; namely , universal applicability . It tolls how the artisan , the shopkeeper , the tradesman may got rich ; but if a man is not in a position of buying and Belling , and docs not sit at Lbe table of the vol . n . 4 H