Correspondence.

And now we eome to the books themselves . Our library , it is presumed , is to be one such as a club , or society of gentlemen , would desire to consult . Therefore it will have to embrace many popular series of books , cheap enough if a few numbers only are required , but costly when complete sets are indispensable .

Amongst the books for daily reference will be Peerages , Directories , and Calendars , and these must be replaced annually with the editions of the current year . Dictionaries , Lexicons , and Encyclopaedias , will comprise both English and Foreign productions , of the best editions , and such works as Du Cange ,

Facciolati , Smith's Greek aud Roman Antiquities , Dictionaries of French , German , Italian , Latin , Greek , Spanish , Portuguese , Sanskrit , Hebrew , and many other tongues and dialects will be absolute necessaries . Rees , the Penny Cyclopaedia , the Encyclopaedia Methodique , Zedler ' s Lexicon , & c , are quite

as requisite . In the series of literary journals no library is considered complete without sets of the Gentleman ' s Magazine , or Annual Register , the Edinburgh ancl Quarterly Reviews , Tait , Blackwood , Saturday Review , Westminster Review , Dublin , North British , Fraser , TTiiited Service Magazine , Revue des Deux Mondes , Journal des Savans , Arehaslogical Journals , Athenaeum , & e . In history , Hansard ' s Parliamentary Debates , Sismondi , Theirs , Michelet , Hearne , Lodge , the Harleian Miscellany , Macaulay ,

Hallam , Gibbon , Mahon , Grote , Froissart , Rymer , Tauner , Lingard , Rollin , and numerous others . In topography , Lysons ' s Magna Britannia , Knig ht ' s Land We Live In , Neale ' s Seats , aud works relating to Great Britain , Ireland , the Colonies , and the world in general . In geography , voyages , aud travels , several Atlasses and a good GazetteerPinfcertonHakluyt

, , , Bescherelle , Humboldt , Murray ' s Handbooks , & c . In classics , such a series as Yalpy ' s Delphin Classics , Lemaire , or Didot . In poetry , Dryden , Pope , Shakespeare , Calderon , Goethe , Schiller , <& c . In belles lettres , British Essayist , Hallam , Scott , Southey , Swift , JohnsonGoldsmithFranklinGuizotand many

, , , , others too numerous to mention . Iu the class of biography , Nicholls , Chalmers , Biographic TJniverselle , Bayle , Anthony Wood , and others . In architecture and the fine arts , some of the best authors . In general philosophy , the Journals of the British Association , Philosophical Transactions , works ou

Mathematics , Natural Philosophy , Astronomy , Metaphysics , Political Economy , Chemistry , Ethnology , Geology , Natural History , Botany , and amongst other authors the works of Lavater , Agassiz , Murchison , Bufion , and Cuvier . . In the department of jurisprudence , the State and TrialsViner ' s AbridgementBurns ' s

, , Justice , & c . In theology , Bibles , Prayer-books , Missals , Commentaries , Concordances , and Liturgies . In Ecclesiastical History ,- such authors as Stype , Burnet , Fuller , Collier , Fleury , Maroni , Baronius Dupin , Butler , and others .

Fearing I may have trespassed to too great a length , I will reserve what I have to say , if it meets with your approval , on the internal arrangement , catalogue , ancl general management , of such a library , until some future opportunity , And am , dear Sir and Brother , Yours truly and fraternally , MATTHEW COOKE .

The Masonic Mirror.

THE MASONIC MIRROR .

GRAND LODGE . The following is tlio official agenda of business to be transacted on Wednesday next , the 7 tli insfc . -. — 1 . The minutes of the Quarterly Communication of the 1 st March , for confirmation . 3 . The minutes of tlie Grand Festival of tlie 20 th April , for

confirmation . 3 . The Deputy Grand Master , the Earl De Grey and Eipon , will move " An Address of Condolence to the M . W . Grand Master on the sad affliction which has befallen his lordship by the death of the Countess of Zetland . " 4 . The President of the Board of General Purposes will move

" That the London and North Western Lodge of Fidelity ( No . 616 ) , Crewe , and the South Suffolk Lodge ( No . 627 ) , Sudbury , having neglected to make the prescribed returns and payments , and having been duly summoned to show cause , be erased . " 5 . Pursuant to notice given , the M . W . Grand Master will

move " That Brother Thomas G . Dickie , late Grand Pursuivant , do take rank and wear clothing as a Past Grand Pursuivant . 6 . Election of members for the Board of General Purposes . 7 . Election of members for the Colonial Board . 8 . Election of members for the Committee of Management of the Eoyal Benevolent Institution for Aged Freemasons and their Widows . 9 . Report of the Board of Benevolence for the ? last quarter .

REPOBT OE TUB BOARD OB GENERAL PURPOSES , To the United Grand Lodge of Ancient Free and- Accepted Masons of Fngland . The Board of General Purposes beg to report as follows : — lo A complaint was preferred by tho Lodge of Benevolence against the Lodge of Faith ( No . 31-1 ) , ltadclill ' e Bridge , for

having certified to the petition of a brother , an applicant for relief , that he had been a regular contributing member , paying the stipulated subscriptions for the space of forty-three years , whereas the Grand Lodge dues had been paid for him for thirty-two years only . The lodge having been called upon for an explanation , it was stated on their part that the brother had

been very irregular iu his payments , and his lodge subscriptions had got into arreav ; that the lodge had subsequently compounded with him on his paying an agreed sum , and excused him the remainder of the debt ; but it was admitted by the lodge that they had not fully paid up Grand Lodge dues on account of tho said brother . Tho Board having considered the

circumstances of the ease , and it appearing that the lodge had too much relied on the statement of the brother , but had not given a wilfully incorrect certificate , resolved , " That the Lodge of Faith ( No . 314 ) be admonished to be more careful for the future , and be required forthwith to pay up the arrears clue to Grand Lodge in respect of the said brother , and that the

Master be required to have the decision of the Board read in open lodge and recorded in the minutes . " 2 . The Board have had their attention called to the want of sufficient safeguards whicli appears to exist in the jn-esent mode of admitting brethren to Grand Loclge at the Quarterly Communications . They have consequently directed certain

instructions to be drawn up for the guidance of the Scrutineers , and these , if properly attended to under the supervision of tho Grand Pursuivant and his assistant , will , thoy trust , answer the object intended .