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them ; and that if you restrict yourself to one good leading article in each number , the remainder of your duty should consist in selecting and arranging the communications with which yon are favoured by your contributors . Powers of composition , extent of knowledge , spheres of experience , and tastes , differ so widely , that there is ample scope for all who desire to make themselves useful , and to give others the benefit of their thoughts , in ritualsoffices

history , literature , architecture , science , traditions , , , practices , emblems , furniture , ornaments , and many other matters in connexion with the Craft . Allow me io suggest , that probably but little effort would be required to secure the occasional intellectual services of some of the most , eminent , of the literary men of the present clay , members of our Order , who , if they possess the genuine Masonic spirit , would be happy to accede to such a requestWe do not live in the days of the poor authors of the

. last century , who required the direct patronage of the worldly great , and were glad to fill humble positions in their respective households . In this respect the public are far more munificent , under a different system , and private merit and enterprize are certain of support , aud not uiifrequently of wealth and honour . It is but reasonable to indulge the hope that the Masonic public would not be less so , in proportion to its extent . I . cannot conclude without adding that the step you have lately adopted ,

of taking up a subject and working it out in detail in successive numbers , so as at last to completely exhaust it , thus keeping it for a considerable period before the Masonic public , is admirable . The months over which it is spread give opportunity for correction to brethren all over the country , while tiie point is still au couranl and open . It prevents the possibility of the dissemination of incorrect statements and the formation of false impressions , and by bringing it forward again and again , in constant succession , and the mind forci

fixes the different circumstances , facts , arguments on so - bly , as almost to guarantee a permanent effect . Many , with myself , anticipate the best results from your Architectural Chapter , published on this plan ; indeed they have already begun to show themselves in the projects to whicli they give rise , in the statements of new Masonic halls which you publish ; in the inquiries made as to plans and means of raising the requisite funds . Doubtless they will do so to a much greater extent as you advance

farther into the subject , pointing out Masonic advantages or deficiencies , as the case may be , in different districts , which may probably afford matter for a portion of every number from this time till the end . of the year , eleven longer . AVhen at last it shall have been brought to a conclusion , pray take up some other matter of primary importance , and present it in a similar manner . Yours faithfully and fraternally , . May 2 nd , 1859 . A P . M ., and Past Prov . G . S . W .

The New Grand Officers.

THE NEW GRAND OFFICERS .

TO TIIE EDITOR OP TIIE FREEMASONS' MAGAZINE AND MASONIC MIRROR . DEAR SIR AND BROTHER , —I addressed yon a short time since upon the subject of Grand Office , while the appointments for the year were yet . in abeyance , and while I still hoped that the promised spirit of justice and impartiality would be exercised in the distribution of them . 1 need scarcely assert that the recent selection affords no trace of either the one or the other ,