Correspondence.

I am unable satisfactorily to lay before you . The hall at Copenhagen is a building exclusively devoted to Masonry , and answered fully its purpose before the introduction of the Swedish rite . The Masonic Halls at Berlin , Rostock , and more particularly at Stockholm , are difficult to describe , and would be still more difficult to comprehend by readers who are not conversant with that rite , for the purpose of which these buildings were

erected . From this same reason , there would be little to learn that would be of any use for halls which are to be built with a view to answer a different system . The Swedish rite most distinctly and definitively describes the locality as it should he on all the different occasions of working ; and the halls in question ( as well as halls in sundry other places ) are required , as far as possible , to be in accordance with the rules of the system . I thought that in England there were similar rules ; and taking only into

consideration the two first degrees compared with the third , it is apparent that the latter requires a locality widely different to the two first degrees . I have not seen , but I have frequently read in your Magazine , reports of some Lodge having worked all the three degrees on one night—which I must confess I am at a loss to comprehend , particularly if all this be done in one room . Without being a Royal Arch Mason , I venture to suggest that this Chapter may require a situation quite different from the symbolic degrees ; and if the English rite stipulates any rules for the appearance of the

different degrees , I suppose that such rules could but imperfectly be carried out where the arrangements and decorations have to take place for each occasion , and immediately afterwards to be removed . In the poor country of Sweden , nothing like this is known . Generally the first and second degrees are worked in one room ; and if , exceptionally , the third degree has to be worked within the same space , it has such a different appearance that you would hardly know it to be the same room , if not told or acquainted with the

locality . Each successive degree has , however , in Sweden , different apartments . The library at Stockholm is very numerous , and comprises works of mixed value in most of the European languages . But there is still another room more important , and that is the " archiv , " which comprises the full rite , manuscripts in sundry dead and living languages , and everything related to the rite , constitution , and actual knowledge—all and part of which , of to such onl

course , are open eyes y as are entitled to study part or the whole of it ; and , without dwelling upon the subject of the intrinsic value of this department , I may only mention that it ' is of such magnitude as certainly to require many years for the most able head to master . The " archiv" is in charge of an " archivarie , " and the library of an " librarian , " both of whom , of course , officers of the Grand Lodge . I am , dear Sir and Brother , yours fraternally , London , 11 th June , 1859 . X .

"Masonic Missions."

"MASONIC MISSIONS . "

TO THE EDITOR OE THE FREEMASONS MAGAZINE AND MASONIC MIRROR . DEAR SIR AND BROTHER , —In the account published this week of the province of Dorset , there are many alterations requisite . Bro . R . Hare was Deputy Prov . Master in 185 G ; Bro . Sydenham has not , I believe , ever filled that office . It was Bro . Willett , and not his Deputy , who held a Prov , Grand Lodge at Weymouth , in 1857 . I cannot