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heir names be kept on the books for a period of six months onger . Carried . A brother ' s case was referred to tho standing committee . One brother was proposed as a joining member . Bvo . Thomas thanked the brethren fur having appointed him Treasurer of the lodge , and reported that the funds were iu a flourishing state , and asked for an early audit . There being no other work before the lodgeit was closed

, with solemn prayer at nine o ' clock , p . m . LODGE STAR OE IXDIA ( NO . 1082 ) . The regular meeting of this lodge took place at the Freemasons' Hall , Bombay , on Thursday , the 3 rd May , present : — Bros . AV . C . Penson . W . JI . ; J . J . Farnham , P . M . and Treas . ; E . W . Keily , S . W . ; F . D . Parker , J . W . ; J . Thomas , Sec ; S . TrennS . D . A . SwiftJ . D . J . R . K . JohnsonOrg . ; VV . S .

, ; , ; , Wetherall , I . G . ; Duft ' ey , Tyler , and a numerous gathering of members and visitors . The first business after the confirmation of the minutes , was to ballot for , as joining members , Bro . P . H . Vining , of Lodge Truth , 945 , and Bro . R-. Manning , of the Social Lodge , 62 . The

ballot was in each case clear . The next business was to initiate two gentlemen , who had passed the ballot at previous meetings , and Messrs . VV . L . Perrins and J . R . Rae , having been properly prepared were admitted to the lodge , and initiated in a masterly mniiner by the new W . JI . The lodge was then passed to tho second degree , and the AV . JI . handed the gavel to the P . JI ., and requested him to

proceed with the ceremony of raising Bro . JlcCann to the third degree . Bro . McCann having passed a satisfactory examination , was passed out for preparation . The lodge was then opened in the third and second degrees , and the W . M . resumed his scat . Some matters only of interest to the members were then discussed , aud there being no further work before the lodge , it was closed in peace and harmony at half-past eight o ' clock , and the brethren then spent a couple of hours at the social board , ivhere ,

as usual , the singing was unexceptional ]) - good . We cannot close this report without remarking that every working officer of the lodge was in his place , a very unusual circumstance , but a matter of the utmost importance , as the work seldom proceeds smoothly with acting officers . With such enthusiastic Masons as the officers of Lodge Star of India arc known to be—all in their places—we i-. e , 'd not say that the ivorking of the lodge was excellent , from the W . M . to the I . GK , each seemed to vie with the rest in striving for perfection .

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The Bards and Authors of Glevelaiid and South Durham and tite Vicinage . By GEOKGE MARKIIA . II TIVEDDELII , F . S . A . Scot , and Noivo ., author of " Shakespeare : his Times and Contemporaries ; "' " The Visitor ' s Handbook to Redcar , & c ., & c . London : John Russell Smith , 36 , Solio-sqnare . Manchester : Abel Heyv / ood , Oldham-- street .

TJIE third part of Bro . Twcddell ' s very interesting work contains the biographies of Eoger Ascham and Dean Whittingham . Tho first of these celebrated men ivas bom at Kirby Wisk , in the year 1515 . "His lather , John Ascham , was steward to the ancient family of Scroope ; and his mother is said to have been related to some hih

g families , " Eoger Ascham was educated in the family of Sir Anthony Wingfied by a Mr . Eobert Bond . In ' the year 1534 , Ascham proceeded to Sc . John ' s College , Cambridge , and here he devoted himself with diligence and success to his studies , and ivas led to embrace Protestantism . In 1534 he took the degree of B . A ., and in the same year , ivhen only eighteen , was elected fellow of

his college . In 1536 he proceeded to the degree of M . A ., and became shortly after lecturer and University orator . His Srsi vrork was "Toxophilus , the School , or Partitions of Sporting , " which he dedicated to Henri ' the Eighth . From this treatise , Bro . Tweddell gives an extract , entitled " Amusement as a Eelief to Study , " whicli contains some very sensible remarks , as witness

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the following passages .- — "I heard myself a good husband at his book once say , that to omit study for some time of the year , made as much for the increase of learning , as to lot the land lie fallow , maketh for thebetter increase of corn . This ive see , if the land be ploughed every year , the corn cometh thin np ; the ear is short , the grain is small , and when it is brought into

the barn and threshed , giveth every evil fault . So those which never leave poring on their books , have sometimes as thin invention as other poor men have , and as small wit and weight in it as iu other men ' s . " * * * " But I say it , therefore , because I know , as little study getteth little learning , or none at all , so the most study getteth not the most learning of all . For a man ' s

wit , foreoccupiod in earnest study , must be as well recreated with some honest pastime as the body , forelaboured , must be refreshed ivibh sleep and quietness , or else it cannot endure very long , as the noble poet saith , ' What thing wants quiet and merry rest endures but a small while . '" After a life usefully spent , and rendered , as far as this world is concerned , happy by the patronage of Royalty , Eoger Ascham died in the hope of a blessed resurrection .

on the 30 th of December , 1568 . His remains ivere interred in St . Sepulchre ' s , London . It is as the author of that great work , " The Schoolmaster ; or , a Plain and Perfect Way of Teaching . Children to Understand , Write , and Speak the Latin Tongue , which was not published until 1570 , that Roger Ascha-m is best known .

Those who are anxious for full information as to the life and works of this celebrated man , ive would refer to Bro . Twcddell ' s most readable sketch , which concludes thus : — " I am reluctantly compelled to bid farewell to honest Roger Ascham , hoping that I have done something towards making his great merits better known in his native county ; for he is not only one of the earliest ,

but also one of the best , of out" old English prose writers . His wise maxims are taught ivith a calm earnestness of spirit and clearness of expression which appeal alike to . head and heart . Let every true Yorkshii-einan feel proud that he belongs to the county which produced Roger Ascham ; and ever bear in mind the advantages of education , by ivhieh means alone we are rendered fit members of regular organised society . ' "

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BRO . HENRY PEAKS GREEN . On the 9 th instant , at the residence of his mother ,. De Montfort-street , Leicester , aged thirty-seven years , Bro . Henry Peako Green , Worshipful Master of The John of Gaunt Lodge , No . 523 , in which office lie was installed only fourteen days previously . Bro . Green was initiated in the above lodge June 27 th

, 1861 ; passed September 19 th ; raised October 17 th ; . appointed Junior Deacon , 1862 ; reappointed , 1863 ; Junior Warden , 1861- ; Senior Warden , 1865 ; and installed as Worship ful Master , June 25 tb , 1866 . At the time of his lamented decease , Bro . Green held the office of Scribe E . in the Royal Ai-ch Chapter of Fortitude . Hewas also a Past Provincial Senior Grand Deacon , which

rank was con f erred upon him at the Provincial Grand Lodge in 1861 ; and he had previously held the officesof a Provincial Grand Steward ( 1862 ) , and Assistant-Director of Ceremonies ( 1863 ) . Bro . Green , who was greatly esteemed by the brethrenfor his amiable disposition , was a most zealous and efficient officer , and during his Masonic career rarely

missed a lodge meeting . He had well , earned the honours of the chair , which he highly appreciated ; and , although very unwell at the time , attended on the 25 th nit . for his installation , and appointed his officers , little