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the present £ 30 . At a rough calculation , without including tlie office expenses , in these days of highlypriced provisions Ave may put the cost of each boy down at £ 20 , thus making a gain upon the larger number of non-paying boys suggested abo \ e of £ 300 . jSTowthirty new boys require an additional master

, where the staff is already not too large , and his cost will be at least £ 100 out of the £ 300 , for no greater mistake can be committed than that of underpaying a teacher , and to expect him to teach . An inefficient teacher is perfectly useless , a clog to the head master , and a wet blanket to the boys . Ifc does nofc seem at

all advisable to make a radical alteration for a possible gam of s 6200 per annum . If the building will permit it , as many should be admitted as the House Committee should see fit—sixty or one hundred . The more brought together under the one roof , and managed by the oue staff of mastersthe cheaper the

, management , and the more satisfactory the results . I should say , then , do not commence the change with any limitation , much less that of twenty or thirty boys , but throw open the institution under certain regulations to all applicants being sons of Masons . The reasoning should run thus : the build- I

ing will admit so many ; on au average of seven years , so many apply successfully for admission as nonpaying pupils , the difference can be admitted on . payment . Again , I do not think that the children so admitted should be clothed , certainly not upon so low fees as £ 30 which is the hihest sum Bro . Binckes mentions .

, g A uniform dress should be worn , and no distinction should exist between the two classes of boys ; but the friends or parents should find themselves similarly placed as with other establishments . College caps and gowns , worn at many schools , arc a uniform which the friends have to provide ; blue cloth jackets

and trowsers can be treated in the same way . Lastly , let some House Committees' foundation scholarships be created , available only for the poorest or the cleverest of these paying pupils . I have put all this before you and your readers as briefly and as generally as I can .

I have still a few more remarks to make in sequence upon my last letter but this being intended as an acknowledgment of Bro . Binckes' kind communication , I think it desirable to forward it in a separate form , and for this week to remain again Tours fraternally , W . JM . KIM .

Masonic Libraries.

MASONIC LIBRARIES .

10 THE EDITOE OP TEE TlIEEMASONa' MAGAZINE AND MASONIC MIKBOK . DEAR SIR AND BROTHER , —In your issue of the 15 th December , I noticed a A'ery interesting mem . about a Masonic library at Amsterdam . Was it not a noble gift , and is ifc nofc a glorious collection ? Can you tell me where oar library is ? for I suppose England ' s Grand Lodge possesses such a thing ,- and who is

librarian ? _ I have heard occasionally that Englishmen are a little more progressive than Dutchmen ; the latter are not so far behind the former , however . Occasionally , moreover , the Englishman copies his French neighbour , and has an IDEA . _ How about the library , and can I borrow a book ? is the inquiry of a descendant of DE WITTE .

Masonic Mems.

MASONIC MEMS .

THE MASONIC MIRROR . * # * All communications to be addressed fco 19 , Salisbury-street , Strand , London , W . C .

AJJ OLD MASON . — Bro . Glover , a P . M . of the Eden Lodge , Limerick , No . 73 ( I . C . ) , is now in his eighty-fifth year , and lias been a member of the Order for over sixty-two years . GRAND MASONIC BALTJ . —This ball is announced to take place afc AA illis ' s Kooms on the 28 fch inst . We understand that there is every probability of its being numerously and influent ' wlly attended . It is intended , we understand , to limit the

number of tickets to 300 , and two-thirds of tbese are already secured . THE DEVON AUD CORNWALL MASONIC CALENDAR " FOE , 1 S 67 . — Bro . Spry , of Devonport , announces that this useful local ilasonic calendar , under the able editorship of Bro . AA . J . Hughan , 1 S ° , will be ready during the present month . Excellent

as have been the previous issues of the " Devon and Cornwall Masonic Calendar , " there are features in the forthcoming edition which especially recommend ifc to the support of the members of the Graft in the provinces of Devon and Cornwall . Amongst the contents we notice the following useful information : —Almanack and clinry for 1857 , showing the nights of meeting of tbe various

lodges ; list of tbe Craft Lodges , Mark Lodges , Eoyal Arch Chapters , Knight Templar Encampments , Chapters of the Bose Croix , & o , when established , and when and where held , and names of their officers for the year ; masonic notes and gleanings ; review of Freemasonry in Devon and Cornwall for the year 1866 ; our charities—the Royal Freemasons' School for Female Children ( accompanied by a beautiful engraving of the institution , at St . John's-hill . Battersca ); Masonic memoir of tbe IMA ?" . Bro . AT . Denis Moore , D . Prov . G . M ., Devonshire ( with , a portrait

of the B . AV . Bro . in Masonic clothing , taken expressly for this work" ) . Bro . Spry announces that the forthcoming edition will be printed on toned paper , instead of on white paper , as hitherto . It would , we are of opinion , be found very advantageous if every ) province had a local calendar . AA e shall be glad to receive and notice any accession to the list of the few local Masonic calendars now extant .

MASONIC LITERATURE IN CANADA . —We are pleased to notice the vigour displayed in our recently-started Canadian contemporary , the Craftsman , and British American Masonic JJecor-cZ , published in Hamilton , Canada AVest . In No . 3 , which is now before us , we would direct attention more especially to two very appropriate and ably written articles referring

to the Festival of St . John the Evangelist . THE GREAT HURRICANE AT TURKS ISLANDS . —Referring to the account which we gave a short time back of the terrific hurricane with which the Bahamas had been visited , and which hael resulted in great loss of life and property , and privations entailed upon the unfortunate inhabitants of Grand

Turk , Turk ' s Islands . The Turk ' s Islands' Forth Lodge , ( No . 647 ) has resolved , " That in consequence of the serious and heavy losses of many brethren of this lodge , and of the distress existing in these islands ( which will evidently increase as the winter season advances ) , occasioned by tbe severe hurricane with which the islands wore visited on the 30 th Sept . last ,

an appeal be made to Grand Lodge , imploring its kind aid , and fraternal sympathy in making known to the various lodges in Gieat Britain , under its Constitution , or to as many of them as it may beem fit , our sad condition , and soliciting the generous contributions of our brethren on behalf , nofc only