Modern Writers Upon Freemasonry.—Iii.

really seems a little too hard to say that a poor shopkeeper e . g . Avho has invested his little capital in setting himself up in trade , and in spite of using * to the best of his power the talents God may have given him , fails ( as men do fail in trade and other undertakings every clay ) , fails either ingloriously or deservedly , for want of all these high sounding attributes which many of his betters Avho have perhaps move

money and even less brains , hare not—is it not so Doctor Oliver 1 A passage in similar style will be found on page 296 , commencing , " If an architect were employed to make a boot , the leather would be spoiled , & e . : " this is on " The Effect of Improper Appointments . " Page 297 , section 5 . — " Sacred Order . " Is not " sacred" rather too strong an exjiression 1

Page 298 , section 6 . —" How can things go on properly if the Provincial Grand Master be in London on parliamentary or other business , and away from his province , with his Secretary residing near him f The simplest remedy in the world : either have , as some provinces ( and Lodges ) have , a paid Assistant Secretary , or , if the province cannot afford this outlay , an unpaid one ; many a good man of business Avill be found ready to undertake tbe duties of an office of such respectability . In the next section , in the same page , officers are

spoken of as " purple" and " crimson" respectively . Page 303 . —It is well known that Provincial and Past Provincial Grand Officers are allowed to wear their provincial clothing in Grand Lodge ( as long as they wear the light blue collar over the purple ) , though Dr . 01 iA r er doubts whether it can be permitted . Page 305 , section 5 . —We do not see the analogy between the

offices of archdeacon , first lieutenant of a man of war , and Deputy Provincial Grand Master . Neither is the latter the real manager of a province , nor the former of a diocese , that is , if their superiors act for themselves , as they do for the most part in this age . Dr . Oliver surely knows how materially different are the duties of a bishop and au archdeacon respectively , and that the latter is by no means the

deputy of the former . Page 306 , section 3 . —Here Dr . Oliver says that the Provincial Grand Master ought to be all that in page 29 i and elsewhere he says he need not be . We have now arrived at the end of the part relating to Provincial Grand Lodges , and have only to notice further the portion on the Grand Lodge of England , and on Chapters , or , as Dr . Oliver calls them , "'Reel Lodges . " We hope to conclude our notice of this work in our next paper .

. V AUSON ' CAUISO . —It is his business to cultivate his mind with knowledge , with generous dispositions , with all ' worthy accomplishments befitting his condition , aud qualifying him for honourable action ; so that he may excel , and bear himself above the vulgar level , no less in real inward worth , than in his exterior ; that he be not a Mason merely in name or show . — . Barrow .