Masonic Jottings.—No. 36.

WHAT A BROTHER SAYS AND WHAT HE ASKS . A Brother says , he finds the source of the Desaguliers , Ashmole , Old York and Mother Kilwinning Freemasonry in Germany ; and he asks m what country he can find the source of the

Freemasonry of Germany ? ARCHITECTURE OP INSECTS . The Architecture of Man has profited by the Architecture of Insects . REASON .- EVIDENCE .

These are truths which are learnt from Eeason , and not from Evidence . OPERATIVE AND SPECULATIVE MASONRY LODGE . A learned Brother says , that the lodge in which Beligion , Ethics and Science were cultivated in a

manner and to an extent not needed by operative Masons , was both an Operative and a Speculative Masonry Lodge .

Masonic Notes And Queries.

MASONIC NOTES AND QUERIES .

TACT AND EICTION . The assertion that something propounded by an author as fact , is not fact but fiction , cannot be regarded unless made evident in the accustomed manner of literary men . —CHABLES PUBTON COOPEB . DESIGNING AND SDPEKINTENDING .

" The task of designing and superintending buildings affords scope for the exercise of the very highest genius , while quantity-taking and measuring are at at the best merely mechanical processes , for which nothing more than ordinary care and practice are needful . " With " quantity-taking" we may also

include stone cutting , or the work of the ordinary mason , who , being supplied with the mould , cuts away at the stoue until it is brought into the required shape . —W . P . B .

EXTBACT EEOM THE BY-DAWS OF ST . JAltES ' S HAIL DODGE , NO . 44 S , HADIEAX . 1 . Never solicit any man to become a Freemason . 2 . Never be afraid to do your duty when you believe a candidate is not worthy to be received into membership with us .

3 . Never forget that you are a Freemason—a link in the chain of universal brotherhood . 4 . Never forget that a Freemason is your brother , and treat him accordingly . 5 . Never fail to admonish a brother if you see him in error .

6 . Never repel the approach of a brother because he is poor . —X . ANCIENT DANDMABK . In the Town Library ( Sladt BibYwtlwlc ) of Nuremberg is preserved an interesting globe , made by John SchonerProfessor of Mathematics

, in the Gymnasium there , A . D . 1520 . It is very remarkable that the passage through the Isthmus of Panama , so much sought after m later times is , on this old globe , carefully delineated

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THE HANDICEAITTS 3 I . IN AND THE ABTIST . " Now had these beautifully-painted flowers but formed a part of some well-considered design , how different the effect would have been . It does not follow that because the work is well executed it is necessarily in good taste ( e . g ., the spire of Strasburg

Cathedral , p . J . G 9 ; see also p . SS-l ' of the Maf / azine for November 13 fch , 1 SG 9 ) . Mere manipulative skill , although indispensable in the execution of all good work , is the result of practice . Taste and judgment are much higher qualities and very rare , and may be possessed in a high degree without the possessor having any manipulative skill whatever ; but when all these qualities are combined in the same person , successful works must result . "—W . P . BI / CHAN .

THE HEABT-WAEM EOND ADIEU . These beautiful lines of Eobert Burns , commonly entitled " The Freemason ' s Adieu , " were written under affecting circumstances . Burns was about to leave his native country , ho feared for ever . Pursued by the consequences of his own imprudence

—poor , friendless , so far as financial strength wa 3 concerned , he had prepared to embark for the "West Indies , a voluntary exile from his own beloved Scotia — " Auld Coila , " as he fondly termed her . Iu the country whither he was bound , there was , so far as he knewno Masonic organisationthereforehe also

, ; , bid adieu to Freemasonry . Under this state of things he wrote , and , with his own manly voice , sung , at a lodge meeting at Tarbolton , " The heart-warm fond adieu . " We give it in our columns , a worthy place among the standard songs of the Graft : —

Adieu , a heart-warm foiul adieu , Dear brothers of the rnysiie tie , Ye favoured ye enlightened few , Companions o £ my social j"y . Though I to foreign lands must hie , Pursuing- fortune ' s sliddery ha ' With melting heart and briaifn' eye , I'll mind yc still when far awa ' .

Oft have I met your social band , And spent the festive winter night ; Oft , honoured with supremo command , Presided o ' er the sons of light : And by that hieroglyphic bright , Which none but craftsmen ever saw , Strong memory on ray heart shall write Tlioso happy scenes when far aiva ' .

Let freedom , harmony , and love Cement you iu tlie grand design , Beneath the Allseing Eye above , The glorious Architect ; Divine ; That you may keen the . unerring line , Still guiilod by the plummet ' s law , Till order bright supremely shine , Shall be my prayer when far awa ' ,

And you farewell , whose merits claim Justly , that highest hidge to wear ; Heaven bless your honoueed noble name , To Masonry and Scotia dear . One last request permit me here—V \ 'hen yearly ye assemble a' , One round—1 ask it with a

tear—To him , your bard , that ' s far awa ' . JUDGMENT AND IMAGINATION . Bro . C . M . P . —Judgment is certainly more desirable than imagination . Put the individual to whom you allude has not judgment to fill up the void of

imagination . —C . P . COOPEB .