To Our Subscribers.

TO OUR SUBSCRIBERS .

Inclosing our Volume for 1856 , we have to thank our Subscribers and Correspondents for the greatly increased support which we have received during the past twelve months , and which has enabled us to present to the Craft a volume , we believe , to be alike unparalleled

for the extent of Masonic information it contains and the accuracy of its details . That we have not yet received all the support to which we look , and upon which our calculations of success are based , we are free to confess ; but , at the same time , we equally acknowledge

that many improvements may yet be made m the Magazine . The last it shall ever be our constant study to effect , feeling assured that the more we labour in the endeavour to obtain perfection , the greater will be the support we shall receive at the hands of the Brethren

Under any circumstances , we are conscious that , in endeavouring to support the best interests of the Craft , we are only doing that which every Mason is bound to carry out to the utmost of his power—and

that with firm hearts and steady perseverance it is impossible to fail of achieving permanent success . To enable us to achieve that success , we once more appeal to the Brethren—we are fighting their cause

equally with our own—and it needs but their determination to place the Freemasons ? Magazine at the head of the periodical press , alike in profitable results and in influence .