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a kingdom s money clown , and men would beggar all the wealth of earth to win her to her shame . It shall not be her lot to suffer equal shame with me . She , at least shall be kept pure , and my fell deed be balanced iu the great accounting by that child ' s

salvation . 0 ye heartless fiends ! " she exclaimed , in accents of intense bitterness , " ye , who traffic in a maiden's spotless fame , ye dealers in the good of human hearts , your ends draw near . In vain are your hopes of many days of gross and

grovelling pleasures . You will go out upon the dark unknown path of death unwarned , or warned when it is too late . You who could speculate in maidens' fame shall learn at last the anger of great Zeus , which appears to wink at your foul

crimes until the last drop brims the beaker and overflows . Sudden , unknown , your ends will be , and I shall stand to challenge , before Rhaclamanthus , all your arguments , to show my broken heart , my ravished honour , and your lewd

delights . " Myra blushed rosily when she found Lucidora entertaining the cousins Adrian and Caius . She

viewed the latter as soon to be her brother , and Adrian — a warmer feeling" seemed to have awakened there than could be answered by her heart to the name of brother . She shyly saluted the cousins , and embraced Lucidora . Soon

however she found herself apart from the rest of the company , chatting in an easy manner with Adrian , and anon discussing with him those doctrines which he had only the night before become acquainted with . Adrian was struck with the clear ,

thoughtful , aud pious mind of the young girl , the readiness Avith which she took in and grasped a great idea , and he sighed as he thought , had Caius but chosen her . But the heart bes-an to beat

quickly , and the blood mounted to his cheek , as he thought she might be his . Now they kneel together at evening prayer , side by side , and Adrian hears her sweet voice singing the praises of God , and he listens to her , and with

her sends up his praise . And Cains in a corner hears that service , which in future ages was to shake Rome with its pomp and state , when out of simple melody , and simple prayer , should arise litany and chaunt , and incense and candles , but

whether the hearts of men were purer in those early days , or whether they are purer in the present , God alone can tell , although we may hazard a finite guess . Calmly and refreshingly fell the ] Driest ' s soothing words upon the heart of Caius , and he

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rose from his kncos resigned , if he was not comforted . ( To be continued . ) £ Tho Author reserves tho rig ht ol reproduction and translation . " !

Masonic Notes And Queries

MASONIC NOTES AND QUERIES

THE G-EJIZSIAX UXIOX , DEIPSIG . The eminent Masonic authors , Bros . David Murray Lyon aud William James Hughan , havo received their diplomas as members of this society . Modem Germany is ahead of the world in her attempts to link in the leading Masons into an active correspondence . It is uow on the cards the forming of a Masonic Authors' Society , a scheme which , if carried into execution , may produce results of the greatest benefit to the Craft . —00 .

A ATICEOSCOrrC DEAWIXG . An ingenious brother being , as he writes , desirous of producing something commemorative of certain famous occurrences in our Masonic history , has made a very curious drawing of an imaginary irregular pile of buildings . This drawing he sent to me

a few weeks ago . It is extremely small—so small that , to see aud understand the details , a powerful microscope is requisite . The examination of it is au operation resembling that of reading the manuscript of the Iliad , which would go into a nutshell . In the corners of the drawing are inscriptions not discernible

hy the naked eye . To these inscriptions there are prefixed figures , 1 to 8 , and in different parts of the pile of buildings there are corresponding figures . According to these inscriptions and figures . 1 , 2 , and 3 indicate parts of the buildings , represented ia a state of total dilapidation , and ruins in which St .

Alban , A . D . 2 S 7 , held the first Grand Lodge of Freemasonry ; King Athelstane , A . D . 926 , granted a charter to Freemasons ; aud Prince Ldwin , in the same year , too ] -: the preliminary measures for founding a Grand Lodge at York . . Figures -i , 5 , ( J , and 7 indicate rooms in parts of the buildings , represented

as still standing and iu tolerable preservation , apparently imitations of bits of our cathedrals , some of which may be ascribed to the fourteenth or fifteenth , others to the sixteenth or seventeenth centuries . Figure 4 indicates a room in which King Edward III ., A . D . 185 S , revised the Constitutions of Freemasonry ; figure 5 a room in which King Henry VI . A . D . 1450

, , , was initiated ; figure G , a room iu which the Grand Master Iuigo . Jones , A . D . If JO 7 , granted warrants constituting sundry lodges ; and figure 7 , a room in which King William * III ., A . D . 1600 , was initiated . The architecture of tho part of the buildings in which each of these four rooms is situate accords with that

of the period at which the event took place , of which the room is supposed to have been the scene . Pigura 8 indicates a room in a part of the buildings of which the architecture is altogether novel and strange , but by no means displeasing ; and it is worthy of remark thatin looking very attentivelwith the microscope

, y , there is a separation between this part of the buildings and the rest of the pile . According to the inscription , to which in this instance there is no date annexed , the room here indicated is ono iu which Ashmole aud his literary friend ( called founders of