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Correspondence.

CORRESPONDENCE .

We do not hold ourselves responsible for the opinions of our Correspondents . All Letters must bear the name and address of the writer , not necessarily for publication , but as a guarantee of good faith . We cannot undertake to return rejected communications .

MASONIC LEGTUBEES . To the Editor of the FREEMASON ' S CHRONICLE . DEAR SIR AND BROTHER , —Your article on this subject ought to find very many admirers beside myself . I have been a very welcome visitor at four Lodges in different parts of the country , and for some time back hare gone to nearly every meeting of three of them , simply because of the new ideas and information I gain—it has been customary for some years to read

a paper on some Masonic subject . The custom is doubtless spreading , but I agree with you that it is regrettable that time devoted to trivial commonplaces , nay even wasted between the Lodge business and the " feed " —could not be employed , or at least half an hour of it , every meeting , in the reading of a paper prepared for the occasion and notified as it usually is on the Summons .

I must confess I think the W . M . is the proper person to give this enlightenment , and I am sure it is always highly appreciated ; however , all are not cut out for this kind of work , and possibly in many Lodges this is the only reason why the practice is not general by this time throughout the kingdom .

You will pardon my venturing to point out that it is rather an innovation not to give Masonio lectures . My Lodge minutes record such lectures nearly every meeting for years prior to 1860 , when the book I have seen ends , but 1 could never get an answer to the query " when did the custom end ? " Published . Lodge histories reveal the same custom in many old Lodges , and the sooner it is generally revived , the better .

Yours fraternally , TKY . To the Editor of the FREEMASON ' S CHRONICLE . DEAR SIR AND BROTHER , —I think the suggestion you make that the Immediate Past Master of a Lodge should bo also its Lecturer—either by actual appointment ot by inference -is a good one , for the reason that it will remove a difficulty which I regard as die chief obstacle in Dhe way of a general adoption of the principle you advocate .

I know that when I filled the chair of my Lodge my time was fully occupied , in preparing for the different ceremonies I had to confer , arranging minor details , and endeavouring to introduce a spice of originality into the after dinner speeches ; and it would have been most unwise on my part to attempt anything further iu the way of a Lecture . As you say , as soon as I had fairly settled down to my work , and was , in a manner of speaking , at home in the chair , I had to prepare myself for the installation of my

successor . But once having vacated the chair I felt " like a fish out of water . " I had' had a full amount of work to perform during my year of office , and being followed by an eminently capable man was virtually " out of work , " and the sudden change was far from agreeable . Having acquired " the gift of the gab " during my Mastership , 1 really believe I should have made a

good Lecturer at the next few meetings , but custom ordained that I was to suddenly fall from my high position to what I consider really the most subordinate one , that of " chief listener , " for an Immediate Past Master to be any good at all must bo constantly on the alert in order to help his successor should he pause for a word in any ceremony . The knowledge that I had to take some really live interest in the work on those occasions would

have be ? n a great relief to me , and probably there are many others who have passed through a similar experience who would gladly hail the introduction of Lecturing as a part of our regular Lodge work . I hope your article on the subject will lead to its being fully discussed . Yours , & c , A PAST MASTER .

The fourth annual ball , arranged in connection with the Woodgrange Lodge , No . 2408 , took place at the Town Hall , Stratford , on Friday , 18 th inst ., the proceeds being devoted to the funds of the West Ham Hospital .

We regret to hear that Bro . Charles Morton , the genial manager of the Palace Theatre , is seriously indisposed , and has been compelled , temporarily , we trust , to relinquish his more active duties .

Bro . Dewar , who was the Conservative candidate at the last parliamentary election , has written to the Walthamstow Unionist Association informing them that he will not again offer himself as a candidate for that Division .