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To Our Subscribers.
T 0 O XT E S . XT B S C E I B E E S .
ITstDER ordinary circumstances we should have closed our Volume for the year with the present number , and returned our sincere
thanks to the Brethren for the greatly increased support ^ hich has , during the last ' few months , been accorded to the Freemasons Magazine—which , we may say without egotism , has now become an established Institution of the Order .
Two years ago we voluntarily gave a pledge , that we should no longer confine our limits to the sixty-four pages of print formerly given to tlie brethren—but that , from the junction of the two publications then existing , the Freemasons' Magazine and the Masonic Mirror , having secured increased strength and connections , we should publish what might be demanded , in order to do justice to those Masonic proceedings in which the Craft took an interest .
We confess that at that time we never anticipated how rapidly Masonic intelligence would grow upon us , and how utterly it would set at nought all those calculations upon which our prospects of commercial success were based . The volume , according to the original arrangement , consisted of 768 pages—how far we have redeemed our
pledge is shown by the fact , that that of 1856 contained 900 pages ; and , with our present number , we have this year given no less than 1 , 040 pages . Could we see * any prospect of being enabled to confine ourselves within even these limits for the future , nothing would induce us to make any alteration in our form of publication , and we should be content to await our reward in our rapidly increasing
circulation . We are bound , however , to admit that we see no such prospect , and that of late we have had to use the pruning knife to an extent which nothing but stern necessity would justify . We have , therefore , resolved to close our monthly issue , and appeal to the brethren for their support and countenance weekly rot . nr . 6 H
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
To Our Subscribers.
T 0 O XT E S . XT B S C E I B E E S .
ITstDER ordinary circumstances we should have closed our Volume for the year with the present number , and returned our sincere
thanks to the Brethren for the greatly increased support ^ hich has , during the last ' few months , been accorded to the Freemasons Magazine—which , we may say without egotism , has now become an established Institution of the Order .
Two years ago we voluntarily gave a pledge , that we should no longer confine our limits to the sixty-four pages of print formerly given to tlie brethren—but that , from the junction of the two publications then existing , the Freemasons' Magazine and the Masonic Mirror , having secured increased strength and connections , we should publish what might be demanded , in order to do justice to those Masonic proceedings in which the Craft took an interest .
We confess that at that time we never anticipated how rapidly Masonic intelligence would grow upon us , and how utterly it would set at nought all those calculations upon which our prospects of commercial success were based . The volume , according to the original arrangement , consisted of 768 pages—how far we have redeemed our
pledge is shown by the fact , that that of 1856 contained 900 pages ; and , with our present number , we have this year given no less than 1 , 040 pages . Could we see * any prospect of being enabled to confine ourselves within even these limits for the future , nothing would induce us to make any alteration in our form of publication , and we should be content to await our reward in our rapidly increasing
circulation . We are bound , however , to admit that we see no such prospect , and that of late we have had to use the pruning knife to an extent which nothing but stern necessity would justify . We have , therefore , resolved to close our monthly issue , and appeal to the brethren for their support and countenance weekly rot . nr . 6 H