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the rank and file of Tylers , over whom he assumes such an air of superiority—or a " majority " of them— " do behave ourselves in a reasonably moderate , sensible , and intelligent manner , and are deserving of some little degree of respect . " There , now ; is not that magnanimous of the "Old Ty ler ? " But if these remarks apply to
the common herd , how much more so to him who has had the " exceptional fortune to have his lines cast in pleasant places , " who does not " tout" for the sale of collars , & c , on commission , aud who excludes himself from the category of those who trade on Freemasonry ? Did you ever read snoh balderdash in your life ? Is
there a man in the whole ranks of Outer Guards who can be pointed to as being free from such " flippancy and frivolity ? " I have never come across one yet . Who is this immaculate " Old Tyler " that boasts , in type , of maintaining " a firm , dignified , yet respectful demeanour towards all the members of the Lodges whose Tyler I
am ? " Ahem ! did you ever hear such egotism , emanating from the pen of one who is " on the verge of entering iuto the sere and yellow leaf ? " I was almost going to translate that old sayiog into " second childhood . " Many men who have seen better days contract a penchant for referring to their more palmy times , but suoh references
are invariably regarded as pedantic , —even worse . Thus , if "Old Tyler " is not " flouted as a flunkey or snubbed as a servant , "—as he asserts some of us " poor fellows" are , —he need not lay the flattering unction to his soul that it is because he was once in a better position than he is now , or that because he is " grateful to be able to eke out
his scanty means by acting as a Tyler . There is something really too Pecksniffian about all this twaddle , which won't wash at all . Did you or any other brother ever see a Tyler " flouted like a flunkey or snubbed as a servant ? " Bah ! the idea is as preposterous as the illustration is far-fetched . No suoh outrage was ever perpetrated in a
Masonic Lodge , and I challenge the " Old Tyler to substantiate his implied libel . He says , " I have known some Tylers , who though far better off pecuniarily than many of the brethren they serve , are treated a shade worse than a ' self-made arisrocrat' would treat his footman . " Good gracious ! I should like those " poor fellows " to be
pointed out to me , and I would give them a bit of advice as how to remedy that state of things . But I am strongly of opinion that it exists only in the mind of the writer , and shows symptoms of softening in that sensitive part of the cranium which he tries to make us believe is even yet , at his age , more solid and active than
with many of us younger ones . The anecdotal portions of " Old Tyler ' s " letter are amusing , only they should have been told to the horse marines instead of to men who have their weathei " -eyes open ; whilst I must indignantly repudiate the insinuation contained in the concluding sentences that we are in the habit of asking for " tips "
— "like the waiters at hotel dinners who , when handing round the toothpicks , insinuate that they ' hope you have been well attended to , sir ? ' and hoping still more fervently that the guests whom th * y thus address have so enjoyed themselves that they will be disposed to tip up generously . " That , Sir , I re'ard as a calumny and a libel on
outclass generally , and I call upon "Old Tyler , " in justice to himself and all of us other " poor fellows , " to withdraw the statement . It is not only ungenerous , but untrue , and I defy any brother to lay such a charge of levying blackmail by a Tyler on the guests at any Masonic banquet . Whatever waiters at hotel ' s do—who are
insufficiently paid by proprietors to avoid asking for tips , and many of them actually pay for the situations they hold , on spec' as to the ti ps they will receive from customers—at any rate we , as Tylers , are not to be included in the same category , being remunerated for the services we are called upon to render to the Lodges .
I trust , therefore , you will allow me , in fairness , the privilege of expressing my views on the subject ventilated by " Old Tyler , " who must be troubled either with a touch of old fogeyism or of " itchin ^ fingers " to appear in print , no matter in what guise ; and I hope , if
he does send you a "few more remarks on the question" at any future time , he may be more consistent with facts , more considerate of the feelings of other Tylers , and less given to blowing that ' trumpet" of his , the toues of which drown every other contained in bis egotistical effusion .
I remain , Dear Sir and Brother , Yours fraternall y , A YOUNG TYLER 28 th April 1887 .
¦ j 'HE visitor ' s impression regarding the place which this season ' s - " - exhibition at the Grosvenor takes in lelntion to previons ones at the same Gallery is considerably affected in some instances b y the inferior quility of tho very large canvasses—much to the detriment of the exhibition as a whole . This impression undergoes "indilication alter a carefui survey , when it wM be found that there
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cr « a number of representative works of great excellence . Still the hnal verdict we feel must pronounce tho present exhibition infericr tu that of Inst , Spring . To mention two of the huge canvasses in question , We will commence with Mr . C . W . Mitchell ' s " Tnrongh j 'esith unto Life , " to which tit ' c is added the quot-dtiou , " and many bodies of the saints wlrch slept arose , and came ont of tho
g'ttfes after His resurrection , and went into the Holy City " •"d appeared unto many . " This picture is stiff in action , and cou-* ut ; poal in composition , and occupying as it does so prominout a Position in the East Gi . llerv , its presence is prejudicial in ihe extreme . In the West Gallery Mr . C E . Halle ' s large work , -tiaondelmonto and tho Donati , " claims attontion bv its indifferent-.
ravv 'ug and awkward composition , which qualities are tro ntrong to ¦ -- excused by the presence of a certain amount of good colo . tr—in Place s , and the Lead of the daughter of tho " Donati . " No . i ) , " Pe-lajzia and Philamon , " from Kingsley ' s " Hypntia , " b y r ' Anhur Hacker , iB a work which will delight admirers of the
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French school of scientific tone , drawing and absence of colour , while it will for its great excellence in this direction command at least the respect of those to whom the manner is distasteful . Pelf gia and Philamon are seen in the desert , the brown grey of the sand forming the prevalent colour , from which the grey portion of Philamon ' a
garment shows no great difference , while the blue of the same is repeated in the narrow strip of grey blue sky on the left of the picture ; the figure of Pelagia belongs to that class of drawing whioh , while possessing considerable exactness of proportion , ignores the subtler beauties of form ; the colour , what there is of it , is pleasant
in effect and cleverly arranged , though it will certainly not strengthen the claims of Mr . Hacker to the title of colourist . Mr . Burne Jones , A . R . A ., has three piotures in the West Gallery ; No . 69 , " The Garden of Pan ; " No . 75 , " The Baleful Head ; " and No . 98 , " A Portrait ; " and in the Third Room , No . 235 , " Katie . "
The two large pictures are in this painter ' s usnal manner , and certainly appear more at home in the Grosvenor Gallery thun they would have done in the Royal Academy , possessing as they do all the quaintness in the character of the faces and the composition which the student of Mr . Burne Jones' work has been taught to expect .
Mr . G . F . Watts , R . A ., exhibits one pioture , No . 57 , ' The Judgment of Paris , " in which he has departed from the ustal idea of representing the three goddesses in a garden , showing them instead in the clouds , draped in aerial blues and rods , the picture being altogether lovely in colour : the head of Venus bears a very strong
resemblance to the Venus de Medici . Sir John Everett Mulais , Bart ., R . A . ' s , two portraits , No . 51 , Mrs . Charles Stuart Wortley , and 58 , Lord Esher , Master of the Rolls , show us the great painter at his best in Lord Esher ' s portrait ; and if not quite at his best in the lady ' s portrait , certainly very near it . Mr . Frank Holl , R . A ., shows three
portraits , of which the finest is No . 54 , that of Lord Harlech . Mr . Herkomer , A . R . A ., is strong , in four portraits , notably in that of the late Professor Fawcett . Mr . W . B . Richmond gives us his best in No . 32 , portrait of the Right Hon . the Eurl of Pembroke and Montgomery , and in 103 , La Frainetta—out of six
works . Mr . Holrnan Hunt is , in No . 119 , "Amarillia , swathed to the eyebrows in eccentric mannerisms . Mr . John R . Reid sends four pictures—none of considerable size—among which is a portrait of Mrs . William Sanderson , full of good colour and strong character , if a little heavy in light and shade . In the East Gallery we have a very
good portrait of J . L . Toole , Esq ., by the Hon . John Collier , Bhowiug us the popular actor seated in an easy chair , with bands clasped , legs crossed , and looking straight out of Ihe picture ; also two more
portraits and a picture , entitled " Lilitb , " from the poem by Rossetti , by the same painter . Mr . G . H . Bonghton , A . R . A ., exhibits one of his nsual quaint studies of Dutch character iu No . 20 , "The Cronies "—two old
women seated , warming their hands at the fire , engaged in gossip . "In Forest-deeps Unseen" is the title of Mr . Calderon , R . A . ' s , ioue picture , in which we are impressed with a study from the nude , surrounded with a landscape , rather than with the idea of a subject conceived and carried out . A mo 3 t beautiful study of sea and sky is
Mr . H . Moore , A . R . A . s , "Morning , Goree Bav , the coast of France in the distance . " Mr . Keely Halswelle , A . R . S . A , is much the same as usnal in two pictures ; clever , but metallic in treatment , and dominated by a peculiar arey , which is this painter ' s o » vn particular property . 184 , l > Tho Daugerous Passage , " by Mr . C . E . Johnson ,
i-: tin interesting landscape , strong and rich in colour . Mr . J . W . Waterhouse , A . R . A ., generally a prominent exhibitor here , has this season only one very small picture . Messrs . David Murray , Alfred Parsons , Hamilton Mucallum , C . Napier Heury , J . W . North , and Ernest Partou , r- present further the arts of landscape and
marine painting , each in his well-known manner . We have also two pictures from the hand of Mr . P . R . Morris , A . R . A . Sculpture is represented by Mr . J . E . Boehm , R . A ., in four work- <—marbio bustof Her Majesty the Queen , marble bust of the late Abbe Liszt , bronze bust of A . B . Mitford , Esq ., C . B , aud medallion of Darwin ;
Mr . Hamo Thorneyorofr , " Choristers ; Mr . Harry Bates , " Master Hugh Lancaster " and " Rhodope . " We have also another bnst of Her Majesty the Queen ( in bronze ) , by U . S . H . the Count Gleichen , who also exhibits a bust of the Marquis of Salisbury , K . G . "The
Fallen Angel , " by W . ddo Story , is the only sculpture group of any particular size ; this is placed in the Wes . Gallery . On the whole , sculpture is not very powerfully represented this year at the Grosvenor Gallery .
The Great , Prior of Enghmd in the United Reli gious and Military Orders of the Temple , St . John of Jerusalem , Palestine , Rhodes and Malta ( the RJo-lifc Hon . the Karl of Lathora , 3 > ° G . K . T ., & e . ) bus been p hased to appoint Sir
Knight the Rev . T . W . Lemon , M . A ., 31 ° to he Provincial Grand Prior of D 'vonshire , in success on to the Into Sir Knight Lientcnaiii-C donel J . Tanner Davy . Br ' . Lemon
was , on the 3 rd of this ruon'h . unanimo : alv elected an honorary member of Lod ge St . John , No . 70 , the oldest Lodf ? e in the district .
HOILOWAY s FILLS A ^ OISTUENT . —It is impossible to overest ' mate the benefi s th ' se e £ E ctive remedies have conferred nn ma kiti'l , imd so > rrent tins been the r succ ss in every part of tho w . rid . tbil their amc- ha \ o become " familar in oir mouths as household . word-V i » s l early remedies f r co . istipsition , indigestion , nnd . vury kiud of h ! od itnpu ity . The actum o £ these P . Us is essentia " . !} - that , ot pte'firs of the blood , hence th y str ko at tho root of ne ; iriy al the I'lsra ps to which mir tie h is h-i .- . rifu ' tnilisj tho ill effects c . f malaria aid uiiheah ' iy sitmospkcres , ; iudchec ! i tho onseto" ' e .-ern , inflammation , aud cater h . T . c Ointmenr . a ts a- > » determent ai , d e . ca tsij ' agent , reduces glandular swellings , and quickly heals chronic ulceration * .
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the rank and file of Tylers , over whom he assumes such an air of superiority—or a " majority " of them— " do behave ourselves in a reasonably moderate , sensible , and intelligent manner , and are deserving of some little degree of respect . " There , now ; is not that magnanimous of the "Old Ty ler ? " But if these remarks apply to
the common herd , how much more so to him who has had the " exceptional fortune to have his lines cast in pleasant places , " who does not " tout" for the sale of collars , & c , on commission , aud who excludes himself from the category of those who trade on Freemasonry ? Did you ever read snoh balderdash in your life ? Is
there a man in the whole ranks of Outer Guards who can be pointed to as being free from such " flippancy and frivolity ? " I have never come across one yet . Who is this immaculate " Old Tyler " that boasts , in type , of maintaining " a firm , dignified , yet respectful demeanour towards all the members of the Lodges whose Tyler I
am ? " Ahem ! did you ever hear such egotism , emanating from the pen of one who is " on the verge of entering iuto the sere and yellow leaf ? " I was almost going to translate that old sayiog into " second childhood . " Many men who have seen better days contract a penchant for referring to their more palmy times , but suoh references
are invariably regarded as pedantic , —even worse . Thus , if "Old Tyler " is not " flouted as a flunkey or snubbed as a servant , "—as he asserts some of us " poor fellows" are , —he need not lay the flattering unction to his soul that it is because he was once in a better position than he is now , or that because he is " grateful to be able to eke out
his scanty means by acting as a Tyler . There is something really too Pecksniffian about all this twaddle , which won't wash at all . Did you or any other brother ever see a Tyler " flouted like a flunkey or snubbed as a servant ? " Bah ! the idea is as preposterous as the illustration is far-fetched . No suoh outrage was ever perpetrated in a
Masonic Lodge , and I challenge the " Old Tyler to substantiate his implied libel . He says , " I have known some Tylers , who though far better off pecuniarily than many of the brethren they serve , are treated a shade worse than a ' self-made arisrocrat' would treat his footman . " Good gracious ! I should like those " poor fellows " to be
pointed out to me , and I would give them a bit of advice as how to remedy that state of things . But I am strongly of opinion that it exists only in the mind of the writer , and shows symptoms of softening in that sensitive part of the cranium which he tries to make us believe is even yet , at his age , more solid and active than
with many of us younger ones . The anecdotal portions of " Old Tyler ' s " letter are amusing , only they should have been told to the horse marines instead of to men who have their weathei " -eyes open ; whilst I must indignantly repudiate the insinuation contained in the concluding sentences that we are in the habit of asking for " tips "
— "like the waiters at hotel dinners who , when handing round the toothpicks , insinuate that they ' hope you have been well attended to , sir ? ' and hoping still more fervently that the guests whom th * y thus address have so enjoyed themselves that they will be disposed to tip up generously . " That , Sir , I re'ard as a calumny and a libel on
outclass generally , and I call upon "Old Tyler , " in justice to himself and all of us other " poor fellows , " to withdraw the statement . It is not only ungenerous , but untrue , and I defy any brother to lay such a charge of levying blackmail by a Tyler on the guests at any Masonic banquet . Whatever waiters at hotel ' s do—who are
insufficiently paid by proprietors to avoid asking for tips , and many of them actually pay for the situations they hold , on spec' as to the ti ps they will receive from customers—at any rate we , as Tylers , are not to be included in the same category , being remunerated for the services we are called upon to render to the Lodges .
I trust , therefore , you will allow me , in fairness , the privilege of expressing my views on the subject ventilated by " Old Tyler , " who must be troubled either with a touch of old fogeyism or of " itchin ^ fingers " to appear in print , no matter in what guise ; and I hope , if
he does send you a "few more remarks on the question" at any future time , he may be more consistent with facts , more considerate of the feelings of other Tylers , and less given to blowing that ' trumpet" of his , the toues of which drown every other contained in bis egotistical effusion .
I remain , Dear Sir and Brother , Yours fraternall y , A YOUNG TYLER 28 th April 1887 .
¦ j 'HE visitor ' s impression regarding the place which this season ' s - " - exhibition at the Grosvenor takes in lelntion to previons ones at the same Gallery is considerably affected in some instances b y the inferior quility of tho very large canvasses—much to the detriment of the exhibition as a whole . This impression undergoes "indilication alter a carefui survey , when it wM be found that there
GROSVENOR GALLERY .
cr « a number of representative works of great excellence . Still the hnal verdict we feel must pronounce tho present exhibition infericr tu that of Inst , Spring . To mention two of the huge canvasses in question , We will commence with Mr . C . W . Mitchell ' s " Tnrongh j 'esith unto Life , " to which tit ' c is added the quot-dtiou , " and many bodies of the saints wlrch slept arose , and came ont of tho
g'ttfes after His resurrection , and went into the Holy City " •"d appeared unto many . " This picture is stiff in action , and cou-* ut ; poal in composition , and occupying as it does so prominout a Position in the East Gi . llerv , its presence is prejudicial in ihe extreme . In the West Gallery Mr . C E . Halle ' s large work , -tiaondelmonto and tho Donati , " claims attontion bv its indifferent-.
ravv 'ug and awkward composition , which qualities are tro ntrong to ¦ -- excused by the presence of a certain amount of good colo . tr—in Place s , and the Lead of the daughter of tho " Donati . " No . i ) , " Pe-lajzia and Philamon , " from Kingsley ' s " Hypntia , " b y r ' Anhur Hacker , iB a work which will delight admirers of the
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French school of scientific tone , drawing and absence of colour , while it will for its great excellence in this direction command at least the respect of those to whom the manner is distasteful . Pelf gia and Philamon are seen in the desert , the brown grey of the sand forming the prevalent colour , from which the grey portion of Philamon ' a
garment shows no great difference , while the blue of the same is repeated in the narrow strip of grey blue sky on the left of the picture ; the figure of Pelagia belongs to that class of drawing whioh , while possessing considerable exactness of proportion , ignores the subtler beauties of form ; the colour , what there is of it , is pleasant
in effect and cleverly arranged , though it will certainly not strengthen the claims of Mr . Hacker to the title of colourist . Mr . Burne Jones , A . R . A ., has three piotures in the West Gallery ; No . 69 , " The Garden of Pan ; " No . 75 , " The Baleful Head ; " and No . 98 , " A Portrait ; " and in the Third Room , No . 235 , " Katie . "
The two large pictures are in this painter ' s usnal manner , and certainly appear more at home in the Grosvenor Gallery thun they would have done in the Royal Academy , possessing as they do all the quaintness in the character of the faces and the composition which the student of Mr . Burne Jones' work has been taught to expect .
Mr . G . F . Watts , R . A ., exhibits one pioture , No . 57 , ' The Judgment of Paris , " in which he has departed from the ustal idea of representing the three goddesses in a garden , showing them instead in the clouds , draped in aerial blues and rods , the picture being altogether lovely in colour : the head of Venus bears a very strong
resemblance to the Venus de Medici . Sir John Everett Mulais , Bart ., R . A . ' s , two portraits , No . 51 , Mrs . Charles Stuart Wortley , and 58 , Lord Esher , Master of the Rolls , show us the great painter at his best in Lord Esher ' s portrait ; and if not quite at his best in the lady ' s portrait , certainly very near it . Mr . Frank Holl , R . A ., shows three
portraits , of which the finest is No . 54 , that of Lord Harlech . Mr . Herkomer , A . R . A ., is strong , in four portraits , notably in that of the late Professor Fawcett . Mr . W . B . Richmond gives us his best in No . 32 , portrait of the Right Hon . the Eurl of Pembroke and Montgomery , and in 103 , La Frainetta—out of six
works . Mr . Holrnan Hunt is , in No . 119 , "Amarillia , swathed to the eyebrows in eccentric mannerisms . Mr . John R . Reid sends four pictures—none of considerable size—among which is a portrait of Mrs . William Sanderson , full of good colour and strong character , if a little heavy in light and shade . In the East Gallery we have a very
good portrait of J . L . Toole , Esq ., by the Hon . John Collier , Bhowiug us the popular actor seated in an easy chair , with bands clasped , legs crossed , and looking straight out of Ihe picture ; also two more
portraits and a picture , entitled " Lilitb , " from the poem by Rossetti , by the same painter . Mr . G . H . Bonghton , A . R . A ., exhibits one of his nsual quaint studies of Dutch character iu No . 20 , "The Cronies "—two old
women seated , warming their hands at the fire , engaged in gossip . "In Forest-deeps Unseen" is the title of Mr . Calderon , R . A . ' s , ioue picture , in which we are impressed with a study from the nude , surrounded with a landscape , rather than with the idea of a subject conceived and carried out . A mo 3 t beautiful study of sea and sky is
Mr . H . Moore , A . R . A . s , "Morning , Goree Bav , the coast of France in the distance . " Mr . Keely Halswelle , A . R . S . A , is much the same as usnal in two pictures ; clever , but metallic in treatment , and dominated by a peculiar arey , which is this painter ' s o » vn particular property . 184 , l > Tho Daugerous Passage , " by Mr . C . E . Johnson ,
i-: tin interesting landscape , strong and rich in colour . Mr . J . W . Waterhouse , A . R . A ., generally a prominent exhibitor here , has this season only one very small picture . Messrs . David Murray , Alfred Parsons , Hamilton Mucallum , C . Napier Heury , J . W . North , and Ernest Partou , r- present further the arts of landscape and
marine painting , each in his well-known manner . We have also two pictures from the hand of Mr . P . R . Morris , A . R . A . Sculpture is represented by Mr . J . E . Boehm , R . A ., in four work- <—marbio bustof Her Majesty the Queen , marble bust of the late Abbe Liszt , bronze bust of A . B . Mitford , Esq ., C . B , aud medallion of Darwin ;
Mr . Hamo Thorneyorofr , " Choristers ; Mr . Harry Bates , " Master Hugh Lancaster " and " Rhodope . " We have also another bnst of Her Majesty the Queen ( in bronze ) , by U . S . H . the Count Gleichen , who also exhibits a bust of the Marquis of Salisbury , K . G . "The
Fallen Angel , " by W . ddo Story , is the only sculpture group of any particular size ; this is placed in the Wes . Gallery . On the whole , sculpture is not very powerfully represented this year at the Grosvenor Gallery .
The Great , Prior of Enghmd in the United Reli gious and Military Orders of the Temple , St . John of Jerusalem , Palestine , Rhodes and Malta ( the RJo-lifc Hon . the Karl of Lathora , 3 > ° G . K . T ., & e . ) bus been p hased to appoint Sir
Knight the Rev . T . W . Lemon , M . A ., 31 ° to he Provincial Grand Prior of D 'vonshire , in success on to the Into Sir Knight Lientcnaiii-C donel J . Tanner Davy . Br ' . Lemon
was , on the 3 rd of this ruon'h . unanimo : alv elected an honorary member of Lod ge St . John , No . 70 , the oldest Lodf ? e in the district .
HOILOWAY s FILLS A ^ OISTUENT . —It is impossible to overest ' mate the benefi s th ' se e £ E ctive remedies have conferred nn ma kiti'l , imd so > rrent tins been the r succ ss in every part of tho w . rid . tbil their amc- ha \ o become " familar in oir mouths as household . word-V i » s l early remedies f r co . istipsition , indigestion , nnd . vury kiud of h ! od itnpu ity . The actum o £ these P . Us is essentia " . !} - that , ot pte'firs of the blood , hence th y str ko at tho root of ne ; iriy al the I'lsra ps to which mir tie h is h-i .- . rifu ' tnilisj tho ill effects c . f malaria aid uiiheah ' iy sitmospkcres , ; iudchec ! i tho onseto" ' e .-ern , inflammation , aud cater h . T . c Ointmenr . a ts a- > » determent ai , d e . ca tsij ' agent , reduces glandular swellings , and quickly heals chronic ulceration * .