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of ancient authors which are totally irrelevant , and even in touching upon the Bible itself he has not made himself master of some very necessary details . Eor instance , in speaking of the book of Job , perhaps the most ancient in the world , he asserts that it is " conceded" to be the production of Moses , a statement with which the critical opinion of every learned man who has studied the subject is entirely at variance . At the same time that

he has neglected to supply us from ancient works with any illustrations of the least practical value , he has contrived to scrape together , from classical dictionaries and other similar sources , a quantity of particulars as to the filthy obscenities of different nations of antiquity , which we find scattered about in various parts of the book , with no other object that we have been able to discover , except that of proving that Ereemasonry did not originate with the ancient Egyptians . These mistinesses turn up in different places ,

quite apropos de hottes , - and the allusions in some instances arc made with a serene disregard of spelling and grammar worthy of Mrs . Malaprop ; Corinth , Babylon , and "the women of Cypress" are all laid under contribution , as well as Sodom and Gomorrah . . We are aware that the standard of taste on the other side of the Atlantic differs somewhat from our own ; still , we doubt whether such passages can be any more acceptable to American than the } ' would be to English readers ; the latter , we are sure , will

not consider them by any means a recommendation to the work . Bro . Hyncman ' s views upon politics are remarkable , and indeed , to some of his readers , we think , will prove even startling . Hebrew Ereemasons in this country , who are among the number of our friends will , we think , be a little surprized when they arc told by us ( upon the authority of our author ) that they are living in a land of despotism—that they are being persecuted , despoiled , and robbed , Perhaps they may reply that they were not previously aware of their desperate condition , nor of the remedy for their misfortune , which is—emigration to the United States . Hear the eloquent advocate of liberty : —'

"The mind imbued with freedom can never submit to the galling yoke of bondage . The best evidence of the imperishable character of the principles of liberty , where these are once implanted , is seen in the history of the Israelitish people . From the time of their dispersion they have been found in every nation under the sun , yet in none of them had they found a Jerusalem except in tho free Kepnblic of the United States . The institutions of this country ( America ) appear to be entirely congenial to their feelings , their affections and their sympathies ; they mingle freely and socially , with the citizens of other faiths , and from tho

moment thoy set foot upon the shoves of freedom , they become identified with the people and i ' cel as if this was their home , tho hind of promise . This is not and never has beeu the case in any other laud where they have lived . There they were ouly sojourners , although born on the soil . "

The constitution of the United States , says our author , founded by Ereemasons , was drawn up in conformity with the principles of Masonry ; u poetical idea , but one not strictly correct . But it is certainly a novel theory wc think , that the government of the ancient Israelites , in the time of Moses , ancl that of the United States of America at the present day , arc conducted upon precisely the same principles . It appears to us that the author ' s admiration of the Jewish ideal and the American real are equally strong , and that he , therefore , perhaps unconsciously , unites them . He says : —

" The platform of the government established by those brave patriots under tbe Moses of the new world , the father of his country , AVashington , is essentially the same in its broad principles as that founded by the leader of the Israelites in the wilderness . This platform embodies the principles of a fraternity of brotherhood .