The Nemesis: A Tale Of The Days Of Trajan.

Ere Balbus could reply , Murtius said , "True . Julia , " calling to the chief of tho slaves , "bid the uaiic-Oi'S approach . " The wiue was left uutasted as this order was heard , and the revellers eagerly directed their

gaze upon the lower end of the room . The curtain which divided the room was now raised , displaying groupes of males and females , robed in the skins of wild beasts , and who danced iu a lewd manner to the sound of lutes , The dance grew

fierce and violent as the music welled out stronger , till , at a given signal , the revellers , quaffing off a goblet of wine in honour of Bacchus , sprang from the couches and mingled with the throng . Then a scene of the most disgusting sensuality ensued .

Dancing upon , skins of goats , the great destroyer of the vine , calling upon Bacchus ia rude impromptu and lascivious verse , robing their flushed faces in masks of bark , and throwing the dregs of wine upon each other , the horrid revelry

proceeded . Old men mumbled in the ears of young girls the most loathsome language ; avid women , forgetting the modesty of their sex , ogled wantonly their partners in the dance . Wilder and wilder they spun round , or , halting for a moment ,

drunk deeply of cups of the Chiau , till , ere long , they fell helplessly intoxicated among the feet of the dancers , who heedlessly trampled upon them in the insanity of the revel . But let us quit this scene—one neither

overdrawn nor uncommon in Rome , which the disgrace of attending , and the penalties imposed by the good men of the Senate upon the votaries , had ¦ failed to banish from the imperial city . In secret these orgies were held , and the members were

bound by a horrible oath , never to divulge them . Let us hie to purer scenes than these excesses , which leave a stain upon humanity even at the present hour . ( To he continued . )

Masonic Notes And Queries.

MASONIC NOTES AND QUERIES .

LIBERTY XSD EK-EEHASOK-Rr , The liberty , which a letter written from Florence describes , is defined hj Dr . Johnson , " Freedom as opposed to Slavery . " True Freemasonry looks upon this Liberty as belonging to Politics , and consequently as a matter with which it has nothing

whatever to do . All discussion of such a subject in lodge is strictly aud rightly forbidden . —CITABIES PCBIOT COOPEE . KNIGHTS TEMPEAE . With the object of assisting iu the settlement of

the vexed question of proper description of the members of the Order of the Temple , and whether when two or more are alluded to they should be styled . Knights Templar or Knights Templars , I crave space for a few remarks . Addison iu his ''• History" eaUs them " Knights Templars" when speaking of them in his

generally , bat at p . 7 , eH . 1 S 12 , introducing remarks ' in elucidation of the name he describes them as " Templars or Knights of tho Temple . " Mills , in his " History of the Crusades , " uses " Knights of the Temple , " " Templars ; " and in one passage , " the order of the Knights Templars . " Michand— " His-Knihts

tory of the Crusades" —gives " Templars" — " g of the Temple , " In Knight ' s volume , " Secret Societies of the Middle Ages" they are described as " Templars , " " Order of the Templars , " " Knights of the Temple . " BStebbing— " History of Chivalry "—they are

y spoken of as " Templars , " "Knights of the Temple . " By Rosetti—" Anti-Papal Spirit" —as " Templars . " By Sutherland , in his " History of the Knights of Malta" as " Templars , " " Knights of the Temple . " The Abbe Vertot , in his " Histoire de Chevaliers Hospitallers de S . Jean de Jerusalem , " records their

title as " Templiers , ou Chevaliers du Temple . " Raynouard iu his " Monumens Historiques" gives " Chevaliers du Temple , ou Templiers , " with many others foreign to this discussion . In addition to the names of those of our own time who have written on the subject of the Order as quoted by Bro . Hnghan may be added those of Bro . Woof , F . S . A ., a P . E . C . , of the Encampment at Worcester , and Bro . Rev . J .

H . G-rice , P . E . C , Mount Calvary Encampment , London , the former of whom uses " Knights Templars , " the latter " Knights Templar . " With reference to the other orders , I find the Knights of S . John , described as " Knights Hospitallers , never as " Knights Hospitaller , "' and the Teutonic hts

third order as " Knig . " No one , I presume , would venture to style these last " Knights Teutonics ,: ' In the paper read by myself , and since published , I have used the description I believe to be the correct one—" Knihts Templar" —aud I will trouble you

g with the reasons for my belief . There can be no doubt that the original title adopted by the founders of the Order was " Knights of the Temple , " so soon , at least , as the " Poor fellowsoldiers of Jesus Christ" were lodged in the residence allotted them by Baldwin . The members of the elder le known

Order , as well as of that of the Tempbeing as of knightly rank , the two bodies were styled respectively , for the sake of brevity , as "Hospitallers " and '' 'Templars . " Confining my attention to the latter , I take the word thus used as a substantive , meaning "Knights of the Temple . " When used iu word Kniht take it

conjunction with the " g , " I as descriptive—* . c , an adjective , to describe the kind of Knight , and it may then be used first or last , but in the singular , as " Templar Knights" or " Knights Templar "—by no possibility could we say " Templars Knightsand in reversing the words I conceive the

, " use of the two plurals to be , if not equally inelegant , quite as incorrect . —F REDERICK BINCKES , 30 ° . " MYTIIICAII EADY . " In Bro . Parkinson ' s able paper , entitled , " What is the Good of Freemasonry ? " the above expression