The Three Grand Lodges.

the list of M . P . 's for England and Wales are rather dejected , and at page 20 , near the top , the word " dominical" is misspelled . I have been informed that , as very many of the loda-es of Scotland have not their annual elections

till the 27 th December , and consequently cannot give correct " returns" for the ensuing year until after that day , it is impossible to get out the " Calendar" by the first day of the year . Could it not be issued and in the hands of all the subscribers

by the second Aveek in January . The publisher ( Bro . John Davidson , of 16 , St . Enoch-square , GlasgoAv ) should make a strenuous effort in this direction ; and perhaps he may be able to have the useful and portable work distributed throughout JL . D the United Kingdom a fortnight earlier than it has been this year .

Bro. Franz Anton Mesmer.

BRO . FRANZ ANTON MESMER .

BY BRO . THE REV . J . KINGSTON , SOMETIME ACTING DOMESTIC CHAPLAIN TO BRO . H . M . THE KING OF HANOVER-, & C . ( Continued from page 54 . ) In his second chapter , Dr . Kerner gives a detailed account of his discovery of Mesmer ' s relics .

As the passage is an interesting one , I 'translate it entire : — When I learned from Herr von Laasbero- that

the heirs and distant relatives of Mesmer still resided at Meersbnrg , I sought amongst them rei kis MSS . j aud anything else memorable as to his life . What I obtained for them—alas ! only a few things , for money and good Avords—may perhaps interest the admirers of this remarkable man to learn .

1 . Some of Mesmer's original letters . 2 . Several fragments in Mesmer ' s handwriting , in the French language , of his OAVU work , Avhich Avas translated by Wolfart into German , viz ., " Mesmerism , a System of Mutual Operation , & c , "

Berlin , 1814 . 3 . A fragment in his OAVII handwriting , in German , on his discovery and theory . 4 . Some fragments in French on the same , of the date 1780 .

5 . A MS . treatise , containing the history of a blind girl , named Paradis , in Vienna , who most unjustly occasioned so many calumnies against Mesmer . This treatise appears to have been composed by the father of Paradis himself . 6 . A series of letters from Professor Wolfart to Mesmer , and a carte blanche , drawn up by

Hufeland , for Wolfart , on' the occasion of his sending him to Mesmer . I shall communicate in the course of this work from these papers Avhatever is remarkableas regards Mesmer ' s life .

What caused me much rejoicing was that , in addition to these papers , I Avas enabled to get possession , in a similar manner , of a life-size oil painting of Mesmer . It represents this remarkable man as he looked Avhen in his seventy-sixth

year , A . D . 1810 . It is very well preserved , and gives the impression of a man possessed of bodily and mental power , of strength of will aud benevolence coupled with firmness . At the bottom of the picture are the words , " Franz Anton Mesmer ,

docteur en medicine , age 76 ans , auteur du rnagnetisme animal , 1810 . " The name of the painter is also inscribed , but is no longer legible . It appears to be the work of a Frenchman . On a residence-card Avhich Mesmer received in

Paris , in the year 1798 , and Avhich is also among these papers , stands his description , subscribed with , his OAVU hand , thus : —Age , 64 years ; weight , 1 metre 76 centimetres ; hair and eyebrows , brown ; eyes , ditto , chin , double ; face , full ;

forehead , high ; nose and mouth , middle size . Herr von Lassberg kneAv Mesmer in life , and found the picture , of the existence of Avhich ho Avas previously unaware , to be very well executed . This portrait Avas destined , after Mesmer's death ,

for his dearest friend , Dr . Hirzel , of Zurich , and had been even forwarded ; but in the meantime Dr . Hirzel having also died , it Avas sent back to Mesmer's relations , in whose possession it then Avas It is quite different from two little copper-plate

engravings which . I also obtained from these heirs , one of Avhich Avas prefixed to Mesmer's Avorks published by Wolfart . These , according to a declaration of such as were acquainted Avith Mesmer during his life , are not at all like him , and are , Avhen compared with his picture , from Avhich they were evideutly not engraved , mere caricatures .

Several days before Herr von Lassberg saAV the picture , the communicative old man had kindly exhibited to me his lai'ge collection of cameos ; and amongst several which Avere shoAvn was one containing Plato ' s likeness . " This cameo Avith

Plato's likeness take , " said he , " as a memento of me . A JeAV brought it to me about twenty years ago ; he had broken it out of a ring he obtained , I know not where . The ring he sold as gold to