Masonic Notes And Queries.

Then the Senior by election among the Deputy Grand Masters , for the Deputy Grand Masters and Princes ; the Grand Preceptor , for the Preceptoral Court ; the Primate , for the Ecclesiastical Militia ; the Grand Marshal , for the Consistorial and Palatinate Committees ; the Grand Prior General , for the Grand Priors ; the General Perfect of Legations , for the Magisterial Legates and Nuncios ; the Grand Bailiff for the Bailiffs ; the Grand Governor , for the

'Commanders ; the Conservator General , for the Priors and Knights ; the Senior by election among the Knights , for the Abbesses , Ladies , and Canonesses ; the General Leader of Esquires , for the Noviciate Esquires ; the General Proctor , for the Inferior Mouses ; all take the Oath of Fidelity to the Grand Master . Finally , and with one voice , the Brethren , Sisters , and Serving Brethren present , take the Oath of Fidelity to the Grand Master . Then the Primate and all present sing the Tilth Psalm .

3-T . The acts of enthroning being entered in the Records , aud read in a loud voice by the Magisterial Secretary , the Brethren ¦ and Sisters present subscribe their names , aud they are confirmed by the signature of the Grand Master , and by the signatures as well as the seals of the Regent and Princes present . The foregoing is all that relates to the ceremony of installation , hut there are other articles of the same Chapter defining the Grand Master ' s powers Avhich we may give , if required , on some other occasion . ]

Literature.

Literature .

REVIEWS . The Works of Virgil , translated by CHARLES BANS KENNEDY , late PelloAv of Trinity College , Cambridge ; Translator of Demosthenes , & c . Pive years ago , the late Dr . Donaldson wrote , of the first edition of this work" One of our best scholarsMr . C . R .

, , Kennedy , has completed his father ' s elegant translation of Virgil , and thus enables us to prove that we have still men capable uf appreciating f lionise ! ves , and conveying toothers , the characteristic beauties of the prince of Latin poets : " and it is not too much to say that this new edition , in which the entire translation is from Mr . Kennedy ' s own pen , fully sustains this praise , and proves not only the

ripeness , but the liberality of Englishs cholarship ; for , as -things now are , little gain can be expected from works of this nature , beyond that a man derives to himself from the knowledge that his Avorks inform his countrymen , and give them the power of seizing and using ideas Avhich , otherwise , the book of a foreign and dead language would have closed against them . This is

particularly true of Virgil , whose verse is often hard to be understood ; and it makes Mr . Kennedy ' s translation , considered as the expression of his meaning conveyed to a powerful and learned mind , all tho more valuable . The sense and spirit of Virgil are here rendered in nervous and sonorous lines , which carry with them the music of true poetry ; and the translation , as a Avhole , may bo . taken as the best that has 3 et been given to the English reader . The following , from the 4 th Georgic , is a fair passage : —

GEORGIC IV . v . 170 . " Now list , what instincts Jupiter the bees Endow'd withal , I teach ; their high reward , AVho , led by tinkling Corybantian brass , Fed in his Cretan cave the infant god . To them alone community of sons And fellowship of city-life are given , AA'ith laws and wisdom politic ; alone

A country and a sacred home they know , For winter's need by summer's toil provide , And store their earnings for the public weal . Part forage in the meads , their tasks arranged By distribution just ; part within doors The tear of daffodil and gum of bark Lay for the first foundation of their combs , Then build the waxen arches ; these are busy

Training the nation's hope , their youth adult , Those packing honey , and their little cells AVith nectar pure distending ; some are bid T o keep strict sentry at the outer gate , A nd take their turns of watching cloud and rain ;

Or booty from the gatherers they receive , Or forming in a body chase the drones , An idle race , away : warm glows the work , And all of thyme the rich confection smells . As in the forge Cyclopian , when they speed Jove ' s armoury of thunder , some the blast AVith bellows catch and render , some the metal Plunge hissing iu a lake ; with anvil-strokes

All iEtna groans ; they with a mighty force Alternately their arms in concert raise , And still with griping tongs the iron turn : Thus in their several offices of toil ( Great to compare with small ) Cecropian bees Engrossing store , their native passion , strive .. Grave elders have in charge the tower's affairs , To raise their rampiresshape their daidal roofs

, The younger bands at evening late return AVith thighs thyme-laden ; roaming all at large The arbute and the willow , saffron-buds , The dainty larkspur , lavender , and lime They rifle of their sweets : one lot for all Of labour and repose : at morning break Outpour the population of the hive , Impatient for their task ; when eve at length

Admonishes to quit the balmy field , Home to refresh their weariness they come , Awhile about the doors and avenues Thronging with drowsy hum , till in their beds Couch'd for the night , a silence o ' er them creeps , And all their busy life islull'd to rest . "

The speech in which Venus addresses iEneas , when she reveals to him the gods battling against Troy , is very good : — 2 ENEID II . v . 702 . " - AA hen lo , beside me shining thro' the gloom Visibly bright , as never I had seen , My lovely parent stood , displaying full

The godhead , such as to immortal eyes In majesty of beauty she appears .-Mo by the hand she took , and softly held , AVith rosy lips admonishing—AVhat passion Transports thee thus , my son ? what fit of rage Unseemly ? where is thy regard for us ? Sliouldst thou not rather look for him thou leftest , Thy sire infirm and old , if he is safe ?

If yet Creusa lives , Ascanius yet ; AVhom hosts of the Achaians hover round , And , but for . my precaution , flames ere this Had reach'd them , or the enemy surprised ? ISfot Spartan Helen ' s face which thou abhorrest , Nor Paris the reviled , but ruthless gods O ' erfcurn this empire , and the heights of Troy . Behold ; the misty damp , which intercepts Thy vision and bedims the mortal sense , I will remove : thou hearken to my voice , Nor fear a mother ' s counsel to obey .

AA'here strewn in heaps thou seest yon massy piles , Stone rent from stone , and wavy , rolling clouds Of dust and smoke , there Neptune at the walls Storms with his trident , shakes their solid frame , And all the city from her seat of power Hurls to annihilation : Juno here In ecstacy of fury and revenge Stands at the Seaman portal , prominent

In steely cincture , calling from the fleet Her fresh marauders : on the central tower Tritonian Pallas in a beamy cloud Effulgent sits , with Gorgon terrors arrn'd : Great Jupiter himself th' Achaian host Inspires with might invincible , himself Rouses the gods to mortal strife with Troy . " Virgil was not onlthe greatestbut the most moral of

y , Eoman poets ; and there aro many passages in this version to which the attention of our brethren may be seryiceably directed as suitable for quotation , when they expatiate on those princip les Avhich form the foundation of our Craft , such as that in tho 3 rd Georgic : — " The fairest days of life are first to flee ; Disease and pain ensue , and wistful age ,

And last stern death , to finish mortal toil . Still worse for better thou shalt wish to change ; Then , for the lost 'tis idle to regret , Keep in advance of time . "