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Reviewsjke Hew Books /
We have before us several recent French serial publications , among which are some entirely new , which are destined to serve as organs of Freemasonry both in France and abroad . This movement speaks well for the progress of the Craft in that country in spite of the attacks which the institution has experienced at the hands of the bigoted opponents to whom allusion has already been made ; indeed , initiations are every week increasing ,
the candidates being drawn from all classes of society . In this list of novelties ,, we can do no more than mention , in passing , the Annates Universelles Magonniques of Bto . F . Acarry , formerly an editor ofthe Franc-Macon ; La Vie Humaine , conducted by Bro . Riche-Gardur ; and a Franco-American publication of considerable merit from New Orleans , In the French ^^ lan - guage / entitled the Delta . Two other brochures also are announced to appear immediately— -ffiram ' s Jewel { Le Bijou de Hiram ) , and The Acacia .
The Bulletin of the Grand Orient , in its late issues , has articles of general and varied interest . We find in its pages a reprint of a paper which was first given to the world in the Siecle , by Bro . Luchet , entitled " Les Haisseurs ; " in which the author , with great ability , administers a vigorous castigation to the libellers of the order , and demonstrates the utility and importance of the institution to amend and assist the progress of society .
With regard to the origin of Freemasonry , however , Bro . Luchet adopts a course of re asoning , with which we are unable entirely to agree . If our learned Brother will pardon us , we would recall to his memory the observation of another well-known French Mason—" Freemasonry has no more to do with the art of the hewer of stones , than the order of the Garter has with the weaver who manufactures-garters . " A later number ofthe Bulletin contains a notice illustrative of a spurious rite entitled the " Order of
Memphis , " from the pen of the 111 . Bro . Leon Jaybert . This rite , it appears , was introduced into France in the year 1815 , by two persons named Honis and Baudas , who called themselves natives of Cairo . The first Lodge , founded at Montauban , became extinct in less than a year from its establishment ; and after several attempts to reconstitute the order , it definitely expired in the year 1852 .
The last on our list of new publications is the Monde Magonnique , which made its first appearance in May last , under the auspices of Bros . Louis Ulbach , Francois Faure , and A . Luchet . It appears to be conducted with ability , and we would particularly notice an article on Duelling from the Masonic Point of View , " from which we extract the following : — " A Freemason who allows himself to be involved in a duel , and who possesses not sufficient discretion to be able to make reparation without cowardice , and ,
without having recourse to this barbarous extremity , destroys by that impious act , the contract which binds him to his brethren . His sword , or his pistol , though it may seem to spare his adversary , still commits a murder , for it destroys his brothers—from that time fraternity no longer exists for him . The law of retaliation— that law which at first sight appears founded on justice , but which is in
fact but the monstrous reciprocity of brutality—is substituted for the law of love and progress , which answers insult with good advice , and returns good for evil . If Freemasons , at any time , as eye-witnesses , become unwilling actors in one of these terrible dramas , let them always have present in their thoughts their obligation to protect the inviolability of human life . They should also remember that the ruling motive is more often wounded self love than wounded honour , and that
vanity is the sole enemy which is to be conquered . Philip Paternoster : A Praetorian Love Story , by an Ex-Puskyite . London : Bentley . —From the title of this work , the reader will be inclined to imagine that very little life or animation could be expected to exist in its pages . But upon a perusal of them , he will find that he has
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Reviewsjke Hew Books /
We have before us several recent French serial publications , among which are some entirely new , which are destined to serve as organs of Freemasonry both in France and abroad . This movement speaks well for the progress of the Craft in that country in spite of the attacks which the institution has experienced at the hands of the bigoted opponents to whom allusion has already been made ; indeed , initiations are every week increasing ,
the candidates being drawn from all classes of society . In this list of novelties ,, we can do no more than mention , in passing , the Annates Universelles Magonniques of Bto . F . Acarry , formerly an editor ofthe Franc-Macon ; La Vie Humaine , conducted by Bro . Riche-Gardur ; and a Franco-American publication of considerable merit from New Orleans , In the French ^^ lan - guage / entitled the Delta . Two other brochures also are announced to appear immediately— -ffiram ' s Jewel { Le Bijou de Hiram ) , and The Acacia .
The Bulletin of the Grand Orient , in its late issues , has articles of general and varied interest . We find in its pages a reprint of a paper which was first given to the world in the Siecle , by Bro . Luchet , entitled " Les Haisseurs ; " in which the author , with great ability , administers a vigorous castigation to the libellers of the order , and demonstrates the utility and importance of the institution to amend and assist the progress of society .
With regard to the origin of Freemasonry , however , Bro . Luchet adopts a course of re asoning , with which we are unable entirely to agree . If our learned Brother will pardon us , we would recall to his memory the observation of another well-known French Mason—" Freemasonry has no more to do with the art of the hewer of stones , than the order of the Garter has with the weaver who manufactures-garters . " A later number ofthe Bulletin contains a notice illustrative of a spurious rite entitled the " Order of
Memphis , " from the pen of the 111 . Bro . Leon Jaybert . This rite , it appears , was introduced into France in the year 1815 , by two persons named Honis and Baudas , who called themselves natives of Cairo . The first Lodge , founded at Montauban , became extinct in less than a year from its establishment ; and after several attempts to reconstitute the order , it definitely expired in the year 1852 .
The last on our list of new publications is the Monde Magonnique , which made its first appearance in May last , under the auspices of Bros . Louis Ulbach , Francois Faure , and A . Luchet . It appears to be conducted with ability , and we would particularly notice an article on Duelling from the Masonic Point of View , " from which we extract the following : — " A Freemason who allows himself to be involved in a duel , and who possesses not sufficient discretion to be able to make reparation without cowardice , and ,
without having recourse to this barbarous extremity , destroys by that impious act , the contract which binds him to his brethren . His sword , or his pistol , though it may seem to spare his adversary , still commits a murder , for it destroys his brothers—from that time fraternity no longer exists for him . The law of retaliation— that law which at first sight appears founded on justice , but which is in
fact but the monstrous reciprocity of brutality—is substituted for the law of love and progress , which answers insult with good advice , and returns good for evil . If Freemasons , at any time , as eye-witnesses , become unwilling actors in one of these terrible dramas , let them always have present in their thoughts their obligation to protect the inviolability of human life . They should also remember that the ruling motive is more often wounded self love than wounded honour , and that
vanity is the sole enemy which is to be conquered . Philip Paternoster : A Praetorian Love Story , by an Ex-Puskyite . London : Bentley . —From the title of this work , the reader will be inclined to imagine that very little life or animation could be expected to exist in its pages . But upon a perusal of them , he will find that he has