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Curious Books.
obtain that mdispensible adjunct to all Masonical and archseologica ] enquiries , we can only treat it as a " pious belief . " That there maybe such a thing as " Astrologia , " I , for one , am not inclined to deny ; but remembering the base uses to which it has been put by the knave and the charlatan , I am not surprised that so many treat it , if
probably very unjustly , as an " old worn fable , " or even worse , —a gross imposture . Astrology got mixed up with alchemy , the jargon of which , and the evident hopeless unreality and absurdity of the philosopher ' s stone , at last wearied the learned by the affectation of science and
the repetition of cant phrases , technical tei-ms , and non-understandable fornxulEe . So much so , that even when alchemy was flourishing greatly , and Hermetic expounders boasted of its greatness and wonders , its "anram potabile , " and its mystic secrets , it was said of it , and its professoz-s , and teachez-s , and searchers , " alchymia est casta mez-etrix , omnes invitat , neminem adznittit , est ars sine arte , cujus prineipiuzn est scire , medium mentiri , finis mendi care . "
The Sunderland Library.
THE SUNDERLAND LIBRARY .
FTlHE fourth portion of the sale of the Sunderland Library will - * - now soon be here , to interest bibliomaniacs and reward collectors . Expectation has been a good deal disappointed by the result of the sale of the second and third portions ; but it is just possible that prices may range much higher at the approaching sale .
Our contemporary , "Notes and Queries , " gives us the following brief resume of the collection , and we think it well to preserve in the pages of the MASONIC MONTHLY reference to so peculiar and important an event . A good deal no doubt as to the fiizancial result will depend on the
condition of the books . Books just now , to ensure competition and find keen purchasers , must be in good condition and well bound . For we live at a time when books " de luxe" are very much to the foz-e , and books in imperfect binding are at a discount , be they what they may . To all who understand books the notes and remarks
which follow will have great interest : — " The fourth portion of the sale catalogue of the Sunderland Library extends from Martinez to Saint-Andiol , including practically
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Curious Books.
obtain that mdispensible adjunct to all Masonical and archseologica ] enquiries , we can only treat it as a " pious belief . " That there maybe such a thing as " Astrologia , " I , for one , am not inclined to deny ; but remembering the base uses to which it has been put by the knave and the charlatan , I am not surprised that so many treat it , if
probably very unjustly , as an " old worn fable , " or even worse , —a gross imposture . Astrology got mixed up with alchemy , the jargon of which , and the evident hopeless unreality and absurdity of the philosopher ' s stone , at last wearied the learned by the affectation of science and
the repetition of cant phrases , technical tei-ms , and non-understandable fornxulEe . So much so , that even when alchemy was flourishing greatly , and Hermetic expounders boasted of its greatness and wonders , its "anram potabile , " and its mystic secrets , it was said of it , and its professoz-s , and teachez-s , and searchers , " alchymia est casta mez-etrix , omnes invitat , neminem adznittit , est ars sine arte , cujus prineipiuzn est scire , medium mentiri , finis mendi care . "
The Sunderland Library.
THE SUNDERLAND LIBRARY .
FTlHE fourth portion of the sale of the Sunderland Library will - * - now soon be here , to interest bibliomaniacs and reward collectors . Expectation has been a good deal disappointed by the result of the sale of the second and third portions ; but it is just possible that prices may range much higher at the approaching sale .
Our contemporary , "Notes and Queries , " gives us the following brief resume of the collection , and we think it well to preserve in the pages of the MASONIC MONTHLY reference to so peculiar and important an event . A good deal no doubt as to the fiizancial result will depend on the
condition of the books . Books just now , to ensure competition and find keen purchasers , must be in good condition and well bound . For we live at a time when books " de luxe" are very much to the foz-e , and books in imperfect binding are at a discount , be they what they may . To all who understand books the notes and remarks
which follow will have great interest : — " The fourth portion of the sale catalogue of the Sunderland Library extends from Martinez to Saint-Andiol , including practically