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members ; in the Chapter 53 ; Mark Lodge 45 ; Knights Temhlar , 6 , and 18 th degree 7 , the latter appearing to havebeen introduced into Hull within the last tivo years . Bro . John Thompson appears at the head of each list excepting the last , having been a member of the lodge from tho year 1818 . A taw more such records from the various lodges would be useful and interesting to the

Craft . We find by tho Annals that a Lodge Library was established as early as 1786 . We should like to know something of ivhat that library now contains . Will any of the Hull brethren enlighten ns ? The folloiving is a somewhat curious resolution : — " 1791 . March 11 . — Besolved' That the interest of this lodge be given to Bro . WesternTleron his behalf for the office of Town ' s

, y , Beadle , '" In 1802 we find " The following Orders of Masonry are held in the Minerva Lodge : —The three degrees of Craft Masonry , Royal Arch , Knights Templar , Old English Herodim or Orange Masonry , and Ark , Mark , and Link . "

Mr . Beeton ' s Publications : London , S . 0 . Beeton , Strand . Mr . Beeton ' s publications are now too well known to require much in the way of commendation from us . Beeton ' s Illuminated Family Bible approaches completion , there being only one more number to appear , and the

same excellence which marked its commencement alike in the paper , tiie typography , the illustrations , and the selection of the notes is as apparent at the close . To those brethren about to purchase a Pamily Bible , or present a volume of the Sacred Law to a lodge we can conscientiously recommend Mr . Beeton ' s edition . The Englishwoman ' s Domestic Magazine , for July is

as replete as usual with articles of interest and amusement , whilst we are informed , on reliable authority , that the fashions and the patterns of needleivork are of unusual excellence .

Beeton s Dictionary of Universal hi formation in Science , Art and . Literature is rapidly proceeding—tho number before us commencing with Lama , and ending ivith Logarithms . The treatise it contains on the Laiv of Nations is sensibly ivritten , and especially interesting at the present time . Beaton ' s Home Gcumes has reached the 17 th number

, requiring only one more to complete the work , and treats of many popular games of cards , some of which are all but obsolete , but in tho whole of ivhieh Capt . Crawley appears quite ait , fecit In the Boys' Own Library the Curiosities of Savage life are continued , and in no ivay abate in interest or excitement .

The Boys' Own Magazine improves as it proceeds , more especially in the illustrations—the portrait of William Lillywhite , the cricketer , being excellent , as is also the Eev . John Pycroft ' s article " A match I ivas in , and what Broadly taught me . " A coasting voyage from the Thames to the Tyne tells ranch that it is desirable to learn regarding our " tight little island , " Avhilst " The

AdventuresofEeubenDavidger , " "Birds andbirdncsting , " " Cressy and Poicters , or the Black Prince ' s Page , " " The young Norseman , " and the varied other contents go to make up a most unexceptional number . The Boy ' s Penny Magazine is also equally worthy of commendation—the Perilous Adventures of Stephen Halston ( to say nothing of the other varied contents ) ,

being sufficient to ensure its popularity . As it is customary , at public dinners , to reserve for tbe last toast , " the ladies , " so will our last notice be dedicated to the work of a lady—that of Mrs . Isabella Beeton—Mrs . Beeton's Booh of Household Management . We have received bub one number of this work , but from a careful perusal of the various reci it contains

pes , and the description of the natural history of the animals and vegetables used as food , we , confidently , pronounce Mrs . Beeton to be perfectly qualified for the task she has undertaken . We agree with Mrs . Beeton that there are

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few greater causes of discomfort than a badly cooked dinner , and would recommend every father to present his daughters with this work , so that they may be the better enabled , hereafter , to enter on the task of household management ; whilst , wo believe , that there are few housewives who may not find something to their advantage n the work .

As To A National Museum Of Architecture.

AS TO A NATIONAL MUSEUM OF ARCHITECTURE .

The folloiving report has been submitted ( by desire ) from the Council of the Architectural Museum to the department of Science and Art , on the Formation of a National Museum of Architecture : — The Council of the Architectural Museum begs , in compliance with the intimation conveyed by the Committee of Council on Education , of the date of December

11 , 1862 , to submit the following considerations on the formation of a National Museum of Architecture in London . In doing so the Council feels itself absolved from the necessity of proving the desirability of such a museum . The only questions about which there can be any difference are those which concern the details of a measure which in itself meets with universal approbation .

I . The first point ivhieh must be settled is the nature of the museum . All museums may be divided into tivo classes , which , for ivant of better terms , may be called exhibitional and scholastic . An exhibitional museum is one ivhieh the primary use is the display of a collection or collections in given branches of art and science , brought together with the view to the completeness of

the the collections in themselves , and not for the purposes of direct instruction . Valuable , or rather indispensable as such museums are for the purposes of study , yet their scholastic use is- a secondary and nob a direct one . They exist indeed for the student to profit by , on his own responsibility ; but they were brought together for the sake , so to speak , of their contents , rather than

for that of the visitor . The British Museum and the National Gallery are instances of exhibitional museums . A scholastic museum , on tho other hand , is one which has been constituted for the scholar ; and the selections

of specimens is made with the view to his direct ininstrnction rather than to the completeness of the objective display . The staple of an exhibitional museum must always consist of original objects ; a scholastic museum admits of , or rather invites , models , diagrams , and facsimilies . The Council of the Architectural Museum is convinced

that the National Museum of Architecture must be mainly scholastic . Within ivhat limits ib would be desirable to make it also exhibitional ivill be noticed further on in the i-eporfc . It must ab the same time be noted that , while the Museum will profit-ably stand open to the studies of the architccb who is engaged in the elaboration of his details , it ivill be still more useful to , and more

frequently _ used by , the architectural artist , whether he is composing for himself , or merely carrying out the working drawings which have been placed in his hands . It will , as far as its more conspicuous contents are concerned , rather be a museum of architectural art , than absolutely one of architecture . II . The next consideration is that of the limit of the

collection , both as regards the sweep of subjects to be included under the definition " Architecture , " and as regards the various styles of constructive arb which ib is desirable to illustrate . While it is very easy to define what is painting , and not perhaps very difficult to attain a proximate definition of sculpburethe limits of that ivide field which

archi-, tecture may be said to fill to the exclusion of cognate arts , are almosb undecipherable . The difficulty of attaining a right understanding on this bead in regard to a National Museum of Architecture is increased by the consideration which the council ventures to assume as axiomatic ,