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€ umb to his powers . So with eager and delightful anticipations of fine holiday fun on the morrow , with a sense of placid weariness from the day ' s heat , and bustle of coming ashore , I was soon in a state of repose , — -faculties , mental and bodily , sunk in a peaceful slumber . Does my reader inquire , —What ! without
mosquitocurtains ? I answer yes ; I had none ; I wanted none ; I was sufficiently fatigued , and at peace with every living thing , to be somnolent without them ; and as hunger is the best sauce for appetite , so is a day ' s active occupation an excellent guarantee for a good night ' s rest ; and never , let me assure him , did I sleep more soundly than on this , my first night in India .
Reviews Of New Books.
REVIEWS 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 , Great Queen-street , Lincoln ' s-Inn Melds . ] " The Adopted Mason . " J . W . Leonard , New York . This is the first number of a periodical devoted to the promulgation of Female Lodges in America and elsewhere , after the method adopted in France . It is a most able journal . Adoptive Masonry it thus defines : — "By the term Adoptive Masonry we imply that system of forms , ceremonies , and explanatory lectures which is communicated to
certain classes of ladies , who , from their relationship by blood or marriage to Master Masons in good standing , are entitled to the respect and attention of the entire Fraternity . These ladies are said to be adopted into the Masonic communion , because the system of forms , ceremonies , and lectures , above referred to , enables them to express their wishes , and give satisfactory evidence of their claims in a manner that no stranger to the Masonic family can do . " All the method of arranging " Constellations" or Lodges of females is given , and the periodical abounds in interesting details which we trust hereafter to quote from . The following is its appeal : —
" Sister !—Is this the first communication ever made you upon the subject of Adoptive Masonry ? Then be assured you have not been fairly dealt with . Your husband has concealed from you what you were all along entitled to know , that the true Wife of the true Mason is the adopted inmate of the Masonic household . Your father has been unmasonically silent towards you , for he should long since have instructed you that the true Daughter of the true Mason is as her Father in the affections of the Masonic Brotherhood . Your brother has not dealt in a brotherly spirit with you , or you would have learned long ago , that the true Sister o f the true Mason is the Sister of every true Mason , the wide world around .
" Sister !—Permit me now to speak for husband , father , brother , and enlighten your mind upon this interesting , this important subject . Let my leaves unfold to you one by one , the truths ancient as Masonry itself , and precious as the fine gold of Ophir . Having followed me through the delightful field , let me conduct you then into the details of a system , designed to render those ancient truths available . In the apartments of the American Adoptive Garden linger and examine the form , the furniture , the adornments thereof one by one , wander through its various partitions , the Blue the Oranyc , the White , the Green the Scarlet , — and
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Pencillings Erom The Sketch-Book Oe A Ma...
€ umb to his powers . So with eager and delightful anticipations of fine holiday fun on the morrow , with a sense of placid weariness from the day ' s heat , and bustle of coming ashore , I was soon in a state of repose , — -faculties , mental and bodily , sunk in a peaceful slumber . Does my reader inquire , —What ! without
mosquitocurtains ? I answer yes ; I had none ; I wanted none ; I was sufficiently fatigued , and at peace with every living thing , to be somnolent without them ; and as hunger is the best sauce for appetite , so is a day ' s active occupation an excellent guarantee for a good night ' s rest ; and never , let me assure him , did I sleep more soundly than on this , my first night in India .
Reviews Of New Books.
REVIEWS 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 , Great Queen-street , Lincoln ' s-Inn Melds . ] " The Adopted Mason . " J . W . Leonard , New York . This is the first number of a periodical devoted to the promulgation of Female Lodges in America and elsewhere , after the method adopted in France . It is a most able journal . Adoptive Masonry it thus defines : — "By the term Adoptive Masonry we imply that system of forms , ceremonies , and explanatory lectures which is communicated to
certain classes of ladies , who , from their relationship by blood or marriage to Master Masons in good standing , are entitled to the respect and attention of the entire Fraternity . These ladies are said to be adopted into the Masonic communion , because the system of forms , ceremonies , and lectures , above referred to , enables them to express their wishes , and give satisfactory evidence of their claims in a manner that no stranger to the Masonic family can do . " All the method of arranging " Constellations" or Lodges of females is given , and the periodical abounds in interesting details which we trust hereafter to quote from . The following is its appeal : —
" Sister !—Is this the first communication ever made you upon the subject of Adoptive Masonry ? Then be assured you have not been fairly dealt with . Your husband has concealed from you what you were all along entitled to know , that the true Wife of the true Mason is the adopted inmate of the Masonic household . Your father has been unmasonically silent towards you , for he should long since have instructed you that the true Daughter of the true Mason is as her Father in the affections of the Masonic Brotherhood . Your brother has not dealt in a brotherly spirit with you , or you would have learned long ago , that the true Sister o f the true Mason is the Sister of every true Mason , the wide world around .
" Sister !—Permit me now to speak for husband , father , brother , and enlighten your mind upon this interesting , this important subject . Let my leaves unfold to you one by one , the truths ancient as Masonry itself , and precious as the fine gold of Ophir . Having followed me through the delightful field , let me conduct you then into the details of a system , designed to render those ancient truths available . In the apartments of the American Adoptive Garden linger and examine the form , the furniture , the adornments thereof one by one , wander through its various partitions , the Blue the Oranyc , the White , the Green the Scarlet , — and