Architecture And Archæology.

feet by 22 feet ; class-room , 16 feet by 14 feet ; with teachers ' residence , all iu thc Earl y Decorated style of architecture , . and cost £ 1400 .

Masonic Notes And Queries.

MASONIC NOTES AND QUERIES .

MOILED 1 U 1 IY— ¦ THE ITvEEMASOx ' s SUPPED . ! I read in The Critic of December Sth that it is , and was 'formerly , believed our Saturday night ' s banquet ivas broiled baby ! " Where did tho tale originate ? — No CANNIBAL . — [ Wc cannot say . See the leader in tho present number entitled , " Freemasonry and the Press . " ] KXIGUTS OF MAMA .

In thc current number of our cotemporary , Notes and Queries , there is tho following , under tho above title : — " The best book on the present condition of the English La-ngue of tho Sovereign Order of St . John of Jerusalem , is the Synoptical ShetcJi- of the Order , printed a few years ago ; but I fear your correspondent will find a difficulty in procuring it , except from a member of the Order for which

it was printed . I shall bo happy to lend your correspondent my copy of thc General Ordinances of the Langno , with a list of its officers , if he will send me his address . —J . WOODWARD . " ST . CLAIR OP KOSLIX . Is there any portrait preserved of this eminent Grand Mason of Scotland?—PATOXEE . —[ Yes ; iu St . John ' s Chapel ,

Canongate , Edinburgh . See also a copy of this picture in Tho Laws ancl Constitutions of tha Grand Lodge of Scotland , 4 to ., Edin . 1848—a publication worthy of a Grand Lodge , and which totally eclipses our meagre affair . ]

BRO . DAT . CUO . In America , Bro . Dalcho seems to have been considered a great Masonic authority ; which was he , a parson or a -doctor?—P . P . —[ Both ; ho was the Rov . Frederick Dalcho , formerly a Doctor of Medicine , and afterwards Assistant Minister to St . Michael ' s Church , Charlestown , and Chaplain to the Grand Lodge , & c ] OLD 1-REEIIASON ' SEAL .

At thc meeting of the British Archaeological Society , on the 28 th ult ., " Mr . Wills exhibited thc brass matrix of an earl y seal of the Freemasons . " Can any brother furnish ] iarticulars of this seal?—GEORGE MAIUCHA . II TWEDDELL . IIKIiOlXES 01 ' JERICHO . Was the degree of Heroine of Jericho , or any other female order in connection with Freemasonry , ever practised in . England , Scotland , or Ireland ? if so , ivhieh , when , and whore ?—BROTHER P _ : TI : R .

WHAT IS A IlIEAlt ? Every now and then the studious Mason meets with terms wliich sadly puzzle him . I am in that predicament . I read in a Masonic song—Hark ! ( lie liiram sounds to close . What is the hiram?—F . E . L . —[ In the last century it was usual to call thc gavel of the W . M . a hiram . ]

IRISH BITES . In reply to " Ex Ex ., " in your last number , I can but state that , under the Constitution of Ireland , all legitimate rites are recognised and represented in the S . G . Council of Eites , including the S . S ., G . G ., I . I ., G . G ., 33 ' of tho Ancient and Accepted Eite , who are governed as to their dogmas , grades , Ac , by thc Constitutions and Statutes of September ,

1762 , and May , 1780 . — " ORDO . AB G ' UAO . " niSSEXTIXG J-imSTERS . Will you inform your correspondent "W . IL , " who has addressed a query under tho above heading in your last MAGAZINE , that George Dawson , M . A ., Minister of the Church of the Saviour , Birmingham , was initiated into Masonry in the Warden JLodge ( 1006 ) , in September , I 860 . — '

W . K . liiLAXo BEI > K > KD , P . M . 1096 . —P . S . Our Bro . Dawson repudiates the title of reverend . IHSMEXTISG MINISTERS . Iii reply to the question of WM . iu " Notes and Queries " last week , whether any Dissenting Ministers are Masons , I bog to inform him that the Rev . Thos . B . W . Briggs , of Dover , Unitarian Baptist Minister , is one . —TJsru . —C'iiit ' . 'i'li'rii , Dec 13 . 1860 .

Masonic Notes And Queries.

THE HEBREW CHERUBIM . As the banners of the four divisions of the Israelitish _ army formed tha essential points of the representation of the Hebrew cherubim depicted on our Grand Lodge seals , has the same symbolism been elsewhere employed ?—CALEB . —[ It has . " The Evangelists have been symbolised in tho primitiveaudindeedall other churches , thus— St .

, , , Matthew , by a man ; St . Mark , by a lion ; St . Luke , by a bull or ox ; and St . John , by an eagle . ] THE TEMPLAll CROSS . As the Supremo G . M . of the Knights Templar is now vacant , in whose possession is the Cross of the Order that is delivered from G . M . to G . M . ?—T . C . T . MASONRY INTRODUCED ] XTO 50 VEI . S .

Some one inquired , in a recent number , what authors had introduced Masonry into their writings ? I can't say it is pure Masonry , but I remember reading a very good story about two reefers in Captain Maryatt ' s Percival Keenc . —• T . T . A .

Literature.

Literature .

REVIEWS . Two Months in the Highlands , Oread la , and Shjc , By C . E . WELD , ESQ . Longmans and Co . We have before us a pleasant book of a holiday tour over ground which , though a portion of the British Empire , is as new to many of us as if it were a descrition of the interior

p of Cham-Tartary . Such a book does not come within , thc limits of strict criticism , because it is not one in which an occasional error here and there is of that importance which will mislead for a whole generation . It is the result of a man ' s eyesight during a time of leisure . - It propounds no new theories and deals with no momentous questions affecting religious , moral , or political life . In . short it must bo

taken for what it is—a very agreeable bit of gossip , such as a gentleman and scholar would pen , aud containing enoug h , to interest those who havo never seen the places visited . Our plan , therefore , in noticing this work will be confined to extract , as that will give a better insig ht into Mr . Weld ' s labours than any detailed remarks of ours . For this purpose , then , we append a picture of a Caithness laird and his neighbours : —•

Amidst Laity Sinclair's lovely flower-gardens , and tho surrounding thick woods in which the tress are of forest-like growth , I almost forgot that John o'Groat ' s house was only eighteen miles distant , llavroek is , indeed , in many respects , an oasis in the desert ; for ivhile the country generally is almost in a state of nature , Sir John Sinclair has not only reclaimed , but made many hundreds of broad , acres around his house smile with plenty ancl prosperity . Lukes and havo been drainedthousands of trees

plantedextenswamps , , sive farm-buildings erected , and a powerful steam-engine is made to do as much agricultural work as possible . Jsowheve will you . have a better opportunity of seeing how scientific agriculture may he made to trhmipli over sloughs of despond than here . JMor should it be forgotten that , while the land ministers to the wants of man , the peasant is advanced in civilisation . Loo '; at the old Caithness hovel , a mere mud structure , with often only

two openings ; the door , and a hole in the root' to allow the smoke to escape . While shooting one day , Capt . Sinclair introduced me to one of these primitive dwellings , liaising- the latch , we entered a room opaque with peat smoke , ivhicli , 1 . allied in its attempts to pass out of a hole in the roof , was rolling iu dense masses through the interior . The fire from which it proceeded was in the centra ofthe hovelbacked ba low wallbut theie was no attempt at a

, y ; chimney . Two ancient crones ivere crooked on their hams in front of the ' fire , one of whom was crooning a strange-sounding song , while the other was coaxing a noseless teapot to stand upright in the heap of hot peat ashes . Two small open recesses in the wall contained the crockery of the establishment ; ancl a bench , two chairs on their last legs , iuid : i couple of box beds , grimed with soot ar . cl . smoke leted the furuitiire \ ow will doubtless imagine

, comp . __ , you that this dismal hole belonged to a pauper . L ' . y no means . The proprietor was a prosperous blacksmith , who was , at the time of our visit , exercising his calling at a neighbouring hamlet , and tho cabin was precisely in the condition that he had inherited it from his father .