Masonic Notes And Queries.

by the then privileged Incoporation of Hammermen , as not being free of the Craft . Attempts were next made for obtaining their leave for a small workshop wherein to make his experiments , but this was peremptorily refused . The University , however , in his difficulty came to his rescue , and granted him a room withm

the precincts of the College , which was free of the incubus of all guilds . " —W . P . B . ORDRA IMPERIAL ASIATIQUE DE MORALE UNIVERSELLE . In Notes and Queries 479 , a correspondent "Muziffiir "asks Dr . : Bigsby , "The Grand Master

Conservateur , " some questions at length as to the Sultanate of Eldir in Asia , and the Sultana Aline of Eldir , the foundress of the Imperial Order . —J . C . MR . PINKERTON THE ANTI-MASONIC WRITER . Last year Mr . Pinkerton managed to draw out several correspondents in Notes and Queries by

outrageous attacks on the history and morality o Masonry , but as to which he got good and sufficient answers . He has been latterly assailing in the same publication Oarolan , the famous Irish musician . His vituperative scepticism has met an able castigator , at page 80 , in Mr . Maurice Lenihan , M . R . S . A ., of Limerick . —J . C .

Masonic Sayings And Doings Abroad.

MASONIC SAYINGS AND DOINGS ABROAD .

MUSIC IN LODGES . Good music is desirable at all proper seasons , in the church , the lodge-room and the home circle , but it is especially of music in the lodge that we would speak .

Many there are , and we think a majority of Masons prefer the good old style of congregational singing ; others prefer to follow fashionable church style and have the music appropriate to the degrees given by a quartette choir of educated musicians , who will sing understandingly if not with the spirit ; tbey are

a large expense to the lodge , and we believe do not afford the actual satisfaction that the singing does that is done by the entire body , each one singing as much as he can and as well as he can . There may be objections to this style of music , that all have not cultivated tastes and correct ears , and there is

considerable discord appreciable to the critical . What if there is some discord ; it is mostly covered up by the body of song , which fills the car , while the critical are slightly offended , the mass of hearers are much better pleased than with tho scientific choir singing ; besides , it is to most men an actual

enjoyment to assist in the musical exercises . Music makes men better ; fills the mind with nobler ancl better thoughts , and to the non-artistic , the one who sings not for pecuniary reward but for the love of it , the good effect is much heightened . We are not strong in our prejudices against quartette singing for the

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lodge , hut rather favourably lnclmee fco con y y ~ yt y m ; :. singing as most productive of good . We a * , u gi -.. uiuidty becoming educated , so that , like Gferni ' tn idges , w ? can some time have music given hy almost an entire lodge of educated singers . Until that time * , would it not be well to encourage congregational - .-inking , as

one strong incentive to those who have nc , . imiUcifjnfc knowledge to sing intelligently , to acquire the knowledge ?•—Cosmopolitan . ISTHMUS LODG-E , PANAMA , CENTBAL AIIJSBIOA . — St . John ' s Day of winter , December 27 th , wsa kept

by this American Lodge , and a sumptuous supper was provided . Many guests were present . ? ni the parting hymn was "Home , Sweet Home . " This lodge is distinguished for its benevolence . MASTZASTIIIIO LODGE , ASPINWAIIL , CSUTEAI .-AHSBICA . —St John ' s Day , was likewise celebrated with great enthusiasm by this lodge on December 27 th .

Spiritualism, Or Magnetism ?

SPIRITUALISM , OR MAGNETISM ?

Wo extract the following article on the pres-jiisions of Spiritualism from . "Club Talk , " appearing In a recent number of "The Exchange and Mart , " " In consequence of my comments on the pretensions of Spiritualism , I was invited to a private sittiirg with Mr . Home at the house of a friend . I - ' . 'i .-rtahiiy witnessed some strange henomenafor wlv ' eh I rausfc

p , confess myself quite unable to account on any theory , even of spiritual influence . I saw an accordion plrtyoc ! for ab least twenty minutes , sometimes when bold by Mr . Home or by one of the party at one end only , ; he airs being- those wished , nofc asked for , by some on a of us , and with accompaniments that would require two l ..:..... bj upon tho keys . I was invited to sit close to it , ,:,- ¦ * . •! look at

the keys , which moved for the music , though , v . 3 touch was visible to me . I saw it do this floating * in tlie air-, A bell was carried tinkling all round the ch-cle , and placed in my hand . Mr- Home , also , pat his hands into tho fire , took out a piece of red-hot coal a : ; big as a cricket ball , carried it about in his hands , ancl put it upon , his head while yet glowing , and not a hair was evort

singed . A piece of paper placed between tho r-oal : nd his band was instantly in flames . When he bad thus held it for about five minutes , and it became black I expressed a doubt whether the ascending hea J I n leave the lower part so -cool as to be p ch L * t * - hand . By way of practical proof , he trcnsfoi d fo ' iy own hand , and . I was compelled instantly to < i > it i ii ' - > i

a cry . It burnt me so badly that I fec u i \ I examined his hands and hair—there wit n * c c fire upon either . What is this magne icin c p the body of the medium which repels ^ n of heat ? for ifc is only by something o he I posed between the hot coal and the hand fi ^ i , n he T ~ menon wo all witnessed could be produce ¦ n- > r -

should sec to this and trace ifc to its souvcrc . I " . honk ! add that all was done in the light . I ronTMr . bcr Lord Brougham telling mo thafc ho once had a sitting ' „ ' , . t ' h Mr-Home , in company with Sir D . Brewster , and ; T > ,:. ^ a bell had been carried across the room and plr . cod in Ida hand . Asking him if ho thought it was a tih . !; , ho said , "Certainly not . " "How then ? " said I . "I cannot oven conjecture , " was his answer : "I only know th :, ; it WM done . "