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and professions , ar ^ closing for the half-holiday on Saturday ; surely shilling-seeking for five days and a half each week is sufficient even for our shop-keeping nation , and the business olMtawyers and their chief might be limited to five days , and thus allow one intervening period of fresh air to body and soul , whereon to wipe off the mists and
immoral chicanery of the law , before the week ' s accumulation of envy , fraud , ambition , perjury , and prevarication is shaken from the soul by the sanctity of the Sabbath . A great public meeting is to be held in the city upon this subject , about the 8 th August next , under the auspices of the Early Closing Association . As Masonic Brotherhood especially developes fear of God and love to men , we hope the Craft will support this movement strenuously .
Historical Sketch of the Order o f Knights Templar , delivered hefore the South Carolina Encampment at Charleston . By Theodore S . Gourmet , S . P . R . S ., Commander . Charleston : "Walker and Evans . - —This work , which deserves a far more elaborate sketch than we can give it , is one of the most singular condensations of research and remote investigation we have ever met with . No less than
thirtyseven distinct authorities are repeatedly quoted in a irochure of only thirty-four pages ; and the style , at once vigorous and simple , declares the precision of a well-regulated and acutely disciplined mind . ~ We do not hesitate to say , that from these pages the best history of Templarism may be deduced , and we trust that the learned author will satisfy , by some future work upon the subject , the
universal curiosity which these comparatively few pages of most interesting narrative must excite . The opinions of the writer are expressed in the fearless tone , worthy of a knight of the order , and the clear statements he advances are founded upon the closest historical testimony ; the period of time comprehended in the history is from A . D . 1118 to the present time . The work closes with a
declaration that the history of the order yet remains to be written , and a suggestion that a capitation tax of two dollars per annum for two years be imposed on each Templar for the maintenance of a travelling brother in Europe , who shall collect manuscripts and other literary elements from the libraries and museums with which to accomplish a complete History of the order .
Chronicles of Wolf erf s Boost , and other Papers . By Washington Iryino . Edinburgh : Constable and Co . —The author ' s name is a sufficient guarantee for the interest and amusement to be found in these pages , which will be read with much instruction also , on account of the graphic accounts of the travelled writer . At present
Albert Smith ' s delineation of Holland is drawing vast crowds , and to those who have already heard his lecture upon the curiosities of the Dutch towns , especially that temple of cleanliness , Broek , we commend the following recapitulation of the peculiarities of a place regarded by the inhabitants as the veritable paradise : — " There has long been a matter of discussion and controversy among the pious and the learned , as to the situation of the terrestrial paradise from whence our
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and professions , ar ^ closing for the half-holiday on Saturday ; surely shilling-seeking for five days and a half each week is sufficient even for our shop-keeping nation , and the business olMtawyers and their chief might be limited to five days , and thus allow one intervening period of fresh air to body and soul , whereon to wipe off the mists and
immoral chicanery of the law , before the week ' s accumulation of envy , fraud , ambition , perjury , and prevarication is shaken from the soul by the sanctity of the Sabbath . A great public meeting is to be held in the city upon this subject , about the 8 th August next , under the auspices of the Early Closing Association . As Masonic Brotherhood especially developes fear of God and love to men , we hope the Craft will support this movement strenuously .
Historical Sketch of the Order o f Knights Templar , delivered hefore the South Carolina Encampment at Charleston . By Theodore S . Gourmet , S . P . R . S ., Commander . Charleston : "Walker and Evans . - —This work , which deserves a far more elaborate sketch than we can give it , is one of the most singular condensations of research and remote investigation we have ever met with . No less than
thirtyseven distinct authorities are repeatedly quoted in a irochure of only thirty-four pages ; and the style , at once vigorous and simple , declares the precision of a well-regulated and acutely disciplined mind . ~ We do not hesitate to say , that from these pages the best history of Templarism may be deduced , and we trust that the learned author will satisfy , by some future work upon the subject , the
universal curiosity which these comparatively few pages of most interesting narrative must excite . The opinions of the writer are expressed in the fearless tone , worthy of a knight of the order , and the clear statements he advances are founded upon the closest historical testimony ; the period of time comprehended in the history is from A . D . 1118 to the present time . The work closes with a
declaration that the history of the order yet remains to be written , and a suggestion that a capitation tax of two dollars per annum for two years be imposed on each Templar for the maintenance of a travelling brother in Europe , who shall collect manuscripts and other literary elements from the libraries and museums with which to accomplish a complete History of the order .
Chronicles of Wolf erf s Boost , and other Papers . By Washington Iryino . Edinburgh : Constable and Co . —The author ' s name is a sufficient guarantee for the interest and amusement to be found in these pages , which will be read with much instruction also , on account of the graphic accounts of the travelled writer . At present
Albert Smith ' s delineation of Holland is drawing vast crowds , and to those who have already heard his lecture upon the curiosities of the Dutch towns , especially that temple of cleanliness , Broek , we commend the following recapitulation of the peculiarities of a place regarded by the inhabitants as the veritable paradise : — " There has long been a matter of discussion and controversy among the pious and the learned , as to the situation of the terrestrial paradise from whence our