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Ancient Symbolism Illustrated.
In China , where the doctrine of meteuqisychosis is generally received , ancl ivhere the science of astronomy is much cultivated , the greatest reverence is paid to the number nine , which they consider the perfection of numbers , being the square of three ; but in all probability their hi gh veneration for it arises from its being the ne plus ultra of their heavenly transmigration through the seven planets and the moonto their finally
, merging in the sun . From Porphyry , we . learn , that in the caverns , where by torchlight our ancient brethren performed their rites , they erected a high ladder which had seven gates or houses , according to the number of the planets through which the soul gradually ascended to the sun , the centre of the system ; and here we perceive au allusion to the blazing
star , or point within the circle . Ln our tracing board of the first degree we also perceive allusions to the ladder of many staves , but only to three principal ones , faith , hope , and charity . Thus there were three staves of ascent , five planets or stars , and seven boobuns . In the tracing board of the second degreewe have the winding staircaseb
, , y which , after having proved themselves worthy to the Junior ancl Senior Wardens , our ancient brethren were admitted to the inner chamber ( another reference to the point within a circle ) of King Solomon ' s temple , to receive the reward of their labour , clearly proving that ( in conformity with the taste for astronomy and metempsychosis connected with it )
this was a mere allegorical symbol of man ' s probation ; and which I trust I have succeeded in proving worthy of our respect , as having originated in the most serious ancl religious persuasions of our ancient brethren .
Notes On Literature, Science And Art.
NOTES ON LITERATURE , SCIENCE AND ART .
THE Duke of Bedford , who was elected High Steward of Cambridge in the'i-oom of Lord Macaulay , will take the oaths of office on the llth of April . At the request of the Senate of the University of Cambridge , the University Commissioners have authorized the suspension , for one year , of the election of two travelling bachelors on the foundation of Mr . William Worts . These bachelors were required to visit foreign countries ,
to take different routes , and to write , during their'travels , a Latin letter in each year , giving an account to the university of the religion , learni ng , laws , polities , customs , manners , and rarities , natural and artificial , which they found worthy of observation in the countries through ivhich they passed . The stipend was £ 100 , payable for three years . This sum was a great help to such young students as desired to acquire more enlarged and enlightened views of life than can be obtained in tbe exclusive societ
y afforded by a university . It is to be hoped , that the suspension of these bachelorships will not lead to their final abolition , though a beneficial alteration might be made in the present method of electing from each college iu rotation . Lord Lyndhurst was a travelling bachelor , Mr . Wilkins , the distinguished architect and writer on Greek art , and Dr . E . V . Blomfield , the eminent classical scholar , were enabled by Mr . Worts ' s
munificence to pursue their studies abroad . The Latin letters of the travelling bachelors are preserved in the university library . Many of them are efaborately drawn up , aud some are accompanied by well executed drawings of antiquities aud public buildings . " The copy , " says the London correspondent of the Banffshire Journal , " of Mr . Carlyle ' s two new volumes of Frederick is now iu the hands of his publishersMessrs . Chapman and Hall ; but it will be
, a considerable time yet before the work in a ' perfected form reaches the public . Carlyle corrects , recorrects , alters , and punctuates , so scrupulously , that printers and publishers grumble , and the public grow impatient . "
Ihe " gushing eloquence" of the brilliant Spurgeon reduced to a literary form has purveyed a considerable quantity of hot water for that gentleman ' s use when he visits the United States . The " gifted" individual ' s sermons have been declared incendiary by the Southerners , and ui some eases have been publicly burned by vigilance committees . Southern booksellers are packing up their consignments of Spurgeon ' s literature and returning them to the publishersThe cause is Mr
, . . Spurgeon ' s late anti-slavery letter . The Montyomcry ( Alabama ) Mail says , ' At four o ' clock yesterday afternoon , by previous arrangement , there was a burning of the works of the notorious English abolitionist , Spm-gemi , at the boukstore of Mr , IB . B . Davis , Market-street . Mr .
Notes On Literature, Science And Art.
Davis prepared a good fire of pino sticks in the rear of his store , aud in the presence of several gentleman—some < : f them true Baptists—about sixty volumes of Spurgeon were reduced to smoke and ashes . The Abbe Hue , formerly a missionary in China and Thibet , and well known for his excellent work on this last-named country , has just died
m Paris after a short illness . The reception of Father Lacordaire as a member of the French Academy will take place in May . M . G-uizol . will reply to the address of the new academician . Messrs . lioutledge have become proprietors of the careful editions of our old dramatists and poets which were brought out by the late Mr . Moxon at the suggestion of the late Samuel Rogers . On the 25 th of
April they will commence a two-fold monthly issue of the old dramatists and of the old poets , with biographical memoirs and illustrative notes , in one shilling numbers . Every complete work will contain a inenioir and a portrait of the author . The first issue of the " Old Dramatists " will be No . 1 of the works of Ben Jonson , to be completed in twelve monthly numbers ; and of " Old Poets , " No . 1 of tbe works of Edmund Spenserto be completed in nine monthly numbers .
, Some time ago Mr . Henry Bradshaw , F . S . A ., fellow of King ' s College , Cambridge , discovered among the MSS . in the university library , of which he is the keeper , a curious quarto volume , respecting which a very erroneous account has found its way into some of the public prints . The contents of the volume in question are :. The Gospels according to the version of St . Jerome , in the Latin language , but written in Irish
characters of the eighth or ninth century ; the concluding portion of a mass according to the ancient Scottish rite , in a handwriting of the eleventh century ; and a small cartulary of the clerics of Deer , in the county of Aberdeen . The last portion is the most interesting . It is chiefly in the ancient Gaelic language , and may b # referred so far back as the middle of the twelfth century—one of the grants bearing date the Sth year of KingDavid ( 1131-2 ) . Mr . Bradshaw intends to edit the volume
for the Cambridge Antiquarian Society , aud not , as has been stated , for the Spalding Club . Mr . Bradshaw possesses an almost unrivalled collection of books—many of them of excessive rarity—relating to the history aud antiquities of Ireland . To the wealthy bibliophilists of England it will it will be a welcome announcement that the library of the late Dr . Carl Hitter is on sale . It is one of the most costly and numerous collections in the possession of
a private individual in Europe , and especially remarkable for its treasures of geographical and ethnographical literature . The number of the volumes is 19 , 000 , exclusive of maps . It is to be desired , in the interest of the heirs as well as in that of science , that the library be preserved as a whole . A catalogue may be obtained from any of the leading Berlin booksellers .
Ou Sunday , " died in Howland-street , Tottenham-court-road , Mr . Henry Bridgeman , a member of the literary profession , who hacl long been suffering from paralysis , originally brought on by too severe an application of the mental faculties , and which had confined him to his bod for a period of five years .- A few days previously to his decease , evidence was exhibited of softening of the brain , and , after indescribable suffering , cteath ensued . For his talent , amiability , and many excellent qualities ,
Mr . Bridgeman was universally respected , and his loss is deeply mourned by his family and friends . A course of six lectures , addressed principally to teachers , is to be delivered at the South Kensington Museum , on the evenings of the 16 th , 23 rd , 30 th , April , 7 th , llth , and 21 st May , 1 SG 0 . The subject and lectures will be as follows : —Lecture 1 . Practical Plane and . Descriptive Geometry , and their application to Mechanical and Machine Drawing ,
and Practical architecture—Professor T . Bradley , 16 th April . 2 . Mechanical Physics—Rev . B . M . Cowie , M . A ., 23 rd April . 3 . Experimental Physics—Professor Tyndall , F . R . S . 30 th April . 4 . Geology and Mineralogy—Professor W . W . Smyth , F . R . S ., 7 th May . 5 . Zoology—Professor Huxley , F . R . S ., 14 th May . G . Botany — Dr . Lankester , M . D .. F . R . S ., 21 st May . IIIU Gazette contains a Treasury warrant , making new regulations
with respect to the rate of postage on books , publications , and works of literature or art . All packets consisting of books , publications , or works of literature or art , whether British , colonial , or foreign , and all packets consisting of printed votes and proceedings of the imperial parliament posted in the United Kingdom , not exceeding four ounces in weight , addressed to Gothenburg , or posted at Gothenburg addressed to the United Kingdom , may be transmitted by the post between the United Kingdom and Gothenburg ( the sea conveyance being by British or foreign packet boat direct ) . And all such respective packets shall be transmitted
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Ancient Symbolism Illustrated.
In China , where the doctrine of meteuqisychosis is generally received , ancl ivhere the science of astronomy is much cultivated , the greatest reverence is paid to the number nine , which they consider the perfection of numbers , being the square of three ; but in all probability their hi gh veneration for it arises from its being the ne plus ultra of their heavenly transmigration through the seven planets and the moonto their finally
, merging in the sun . From Porphyry , we . learn , that in the caverns , where by torchlight our ancient brethren performed their rites , they erected a high ladder which had seven gates or houses , according to the number of the planets through which the soul gradually ascended to the sun , the centre of the system ; and here we perceive au allusion to the blazing
star , or point within the circle . Ln our tracing board of the first degree we also perceive allusions to the ladder of many staves , but only to three principal ones , faith , hope , and charity . Thus there were three staves of ascent , five planets or stars , and seven boobuns . In the tracing board of the second degreewe have the winding staircaseb
, , y which , after having proved themselves worthy to the Junior ancl Senior Wardens , our ancient brethren were admitted to the inner chamber ( another reference to the point within a circle ) of King Solomon ' s temple , to receive the reward of their labour , clearly proving that ( in conformity with the taste for astronomy and metempsychosis connected with it )
this was a mere allegorical symbol of man ' s probation ; and which I trust I have succeeded in proving worthy of our respect , as having originated in the most serious ancl religious persuasions of our ancient brethren .
Notes On Literature, Science And Art.
NOTES ON LITERATURE , SCIENCE AND ART .
THE Duke of Bedford , who was elected High Steward of Cambridge in the'i-oom of Lord Macaulay , will take the oaths of office on the llth of April . At the request of the Senate of the University of Cambridge , the University Commissioners have authorized the suspension , for one year , of the election of two travelling bachelors on the foundation of Mr . William Worts . These bachelors were required to visit foreign countries ,
to take different routes , and to write , during their'travels , a Latin letter in each year , giving an account to the university of the religion , learni ng , laws , polities , customs , manners , and rarities , natural and artificial , which they found worthy of observation in the countries through ivhich they passed . The stipend was £ 100 , payable for three years . This sum was a great help to such young students as desired to acquire more enlarged and enlightened views of life than can be obtained in tbe exclusive societ
y afforded by a university . It is to be hoped , that the suspension of these bachelorships will not lead to their final abolition , though a beneficial alteration might be made in the present method of electing from each college iu rotation . Lord Lyndhurst was a travelling bachelor , Mr . Wilkins , the distinguished architect and writer on Greek art , and Dr . E . V . Blomfield , the eminent classical scholar , were enabled by Mr . Worts ' s
munificence to pursue their studies abroad . The Latin letters of the travelling bachelors are preserved in the university library . Many of them are efaborately drawn up , aud some are accompanied by well executed drawings of antiquities aud public buildings . " The copy , " says the London correspondent of the Banffshire Journal , " of Mr . Carlyle ' s two new volumes of Frederick is now iu the hands of his publishersMessrs . Chapman and Hall ; but it will be
, a considerable time yet before the work in a ' perfected form reaches the public . Carlyle corrects , recorrects , alters , and punctuates , so scrupulously , that printers and publishers grumble , and the public grow impatient . "
Ihe " gushing eloquence" of the brilliant Spurgeon reduced to a literary form has purveyed a considerable quantity of hot water for that gentleman ' s use when he visits the United States . The " gifted" individual ' s sermons have been declared incendiary by the Southerners , and ui some eases have been publicly burned by vigilance committees . Southern booksellers are packing up their consignments of Spurgeon ' s literature and returning them to the publishersThe cause is Mr
, . . Spurgeon ' s late anti-slavery letter . The Montyomcry ( Alabama ) Mail says , ' At four o ' clock yesterday afternoon , by previous arrangement , there was a burning of the works of the notorious English abolitionist , Spm-gemi , at the boukstore of Mr , IB . B . Davis , Market-street . Mr .
Notes On Literature, Science And Art.
Davis prepared a good fire of pino sticks in the rear of his store , aud in the presence of several gentleman—some < : f them true Baptists—about sixty volumes of Spurgeon were reduced to smoke and ashes . The Abbe Hue , formerly a missionary in China and Thibet , and well known for his excellent work on this last-named country , has just died
m Paris after a short illness . The reception of Father Lacordaire as a member of the French Academy will take place in May . M . G-uizol . will reply to the address of the new academician . Messrs . lioutledge have become proprietors of the careful editions of our old dramatists and poets which were brought out by the late Mr . Moxon at the suggestion of the late Samuel Rogers . On the 25 th of
April they will commence a two-fold monthly issue of the old dramatists and of the old poets , with biographical memoirs and illustrative notes , in one shilling numbers . Every complete work will contain a inenioir and a portrait of the author . The first issue of the " Old Dramatists " will be No . 1 of the works of Ben Jonson , to be completed in twelve monthly numbers ; and of " Old Poets , " No . 1 of tbe works of Edmund Spenserto be completed in nine monthly numbers .
, Some time ago Mr . Henry Bradshaw , F . S . A ., fellow of King ' s College , Cambridge , discovered among the MSS . in the university library , of which he is the keeper , a curious quarto volume , respecting which a very erroneous account has found its way into some of the public prints . The contents of the volume in question are :. The Gospels according to the version of St . Jerome , in the Latin language , but written in Irish
characters of the eighth or ninth century ; the concluding portion of a mass according to the ancient Scottish rite , in a handwriting of the eleventh century ; and a small cartulary of the clerics of Deer , in the county of Aberdeen . The last portion is the most interesting . It is chiefly in the ancient Gaelic language , and may b # referred so far back as the middle of the twelfth century—one of the grants bearing date the Sth year of KingDavid ( 1131-2 ) . Mr . Bradshaw intends to edit the volume
for the Cambridge Antiquarian Society , aud not , as has been stated , for the Spalding Club . Mr . Bradshaw possesses an almost unrivalled collection of books—many of them of excessive rarity—relating to the history aud antiquities of Ireland . To the wealthy bibliophilists of England it will it will be a welcome announcement that the library of the late Dr . Carl Hitter is on sale . It is one of the most costly and numerous collections in the possession of
a private individual in Europe , and especially remarkable for its treasures of geographical and ethnographical literature . The number of the volumes is 19 , 000 , exclusive of maps . It is to be desired , in the interest of the heirs as well as in that of science , that the library be preserved as a whole . A catalogue may be obtained from any of the leading Berlin booksellers .
Ou Sunday , " died in Howland-street , Tottenham-court-road , Mr . Henry Bridgeman , a member of the literary profession , who hacl long been suffering from paralysis , originally brought on by too severe an application of the mental faculties , and which had confined him to his bod for a period of five years .- A few days previously to his decease , evidence was exhibited of softening of the brain , and , after indescribable suffering , cteath ensued . For his talent , amiability , and many excellent qualities ,
Mr . Bridgeman was universally respected , and his loss is deeply mourned by his family and friends . A course of six lectures , addressed principally to teachers , is to be delivered at the South Kensington Museum , on the evenings of the 16 th , 23 rd , 30 th , April , 7 th , llth , and 21 st May , 1 SG 0 . The subject and lectures will be as follows : —Lecture 1 . Practical Plane and . Descriptive Geometry , and their application to Mechanical and Machine Drawing ,
and Practical architecture—Professor T . Bradley , 16 th April . 2 . Mechanical Physics—Rev . B . M . Cowie , M . A ., 23 rd April . 3 . Experimental Physics—Professor Tyndall , F . R . S . 30 th April . 4 . Geology and Mineralogy—Professor W . W . Smyth , F . R . S ., 7 th May . 5 . Zoology—Professor Huxley , F . R . S ., 14 th May . G . Botany — Dr . Lankester , M . D .. F . R . S ., 21 st May . IIIU Gazette contains a Treasury warrant , making new regulations
with respect to the rate of postage on books , publications , and works of literature or art . All packets consisting of books , publications , or works of literature or art , whether British , colonial , or foreign , and all packets consisting of printed votes and proceedings of the imperial parliament posted in the United Kingdom , not exceeding four ounces in weight , addressed to Gothenburg , or posted at Gothenburg addressed to the United Kingdom , may be transmitted by the post between the United Kingdom and Gothenburg ( the sea conveyance being by British or foreign packet boat direct ) . And all such respective packets shall be transmitted