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Literary Notices, &C.
Freemasons' Calendar and Pocket Book , 1846 , R . Spencer . AA e are enabled to announce that the " Committee for superintending the printing of the Calendar , "—for really there is a committee (!) to conduct this elaborate and scientific work—direct the attention of Masters of Lodges to art . 7 , p . 61 , and to the laws , pp . 91 and 92 , of the " Book of Constitutions ; " they have also added the eclipses for the year , ancl
( credat indeas ) the iron masters' meetings . AVhat labours for Hercules to contemplate!—how grateful we feel for such zeal in the cause of Masonic science—mons parturit nascitur mus . —Notwithstanding a risible propensity , we must thank the printer for a very creditable specimen of typography ; and observe that in every part , where Bro . Spencer has been permitted to exercise his own discretion , he has shown himself a master of his art . The Calendar was unusually late , but we must not allude to the cause , otherwise than to exonerate Bro . Spencer , the publisher .
Melodia Masonica . Four Songs and a Trio , partly composed ancl arranged by Bro . C . H . Purday . Z . T . Purday . R . Spencer . The first of these songs , " the Entered Apprentice , " is stated to have been written ancl composed by Bro . Matthew Burkead , about the year 1723 ; and so it was , excepting the sixth verse , which is an addition but no improvement , viz . — . " We're true and sincere
, And just to the fair , They'll trust us on every occasion , No mortal can more Thc l . itlies adore , Than a Free and an Accepted Mason . " This verse is quoted from the Book of Constitutions for 1738 . AVe do not find , on a pretty close investigation , that the " Fair" have ever received " fair lay" from our Order ; that the wives and daughters
p of Masons are truthful and trusting we well know ; but equivocal compliment , very nearly amounting to a falsehood , tells against and not in favour of an Order , so pure as Freemasonry really is . Scarcely a year has passed since the attempt to permit a widow to bring in her petition at any time , after a husband ' s decease before the Board of Benevolence was frittered clown to two years ; and no later than at the Grand Lodge of Juneand again in the present monthmemorials from country Lodges
, , were presented , and a posse comitatus , headed by noblemen and gentlemen , attended , ancl prevented an increase of dues for the purpose of granting annuities to the widows of Masons . '' Just to the fair , " indeed ! AVe regret that poor clear Mrs . Caudle is defunct—were she living we would send her into Devonshire and Yorkshire in particular , and teach Masons not to forego their allegiance , but to sing ' more appropriately as regards woman . ¦
AA ^ e have almost forgotten our immediate duty , whicli is with Bro . Purday ' s compositions—they are all of them pleasing , easy , and fluent , and form excellent melody for the convivial hour ; their Masonic inference will probably , with many of the more thoughtful Brethren , tend to isupersede songs of a lighter character ; and . we . advise all Lodges to have " A- copy at hand . ,
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Literary Notices, &C.
Freemasons' Calendar and Pocket Book , 1846 , R . Spencer . AA e are enabled to announce that the " Committee for superintending the printing of the Calendar , "—for really there is a committee (!) to conduct this elaborate and scientific work—direct the attention of Masters of Lodges to art . 7 , p . 61 , and to the laws , pp . 91 and 92 , of the " Book of Constitutions ; " they have also added the eclipses for the year , ancl
( credat indeas ) the iron masters' meetings . AVhat labours for Hercules to contemplate!—how grateful we feel for such zeal in the cause of Masonic science—mons parturit nascitur mus . —Notwithstanding a risible propensity , we must thank the printer for a very creditable specimen of typography ; and observe that in every part , where Bro . Spencer has been permitted to exercise his own discretion , he has shown himself a master of his art . The Calendar was unusually late , but we must not allude to the cause , otherwise than to exonerate Bro . Spencer , the publisher .
Melodia Masonica . Four Songs and a Trio , partly composed ancl arranged by Bro . C . H . Purday . Z . T . Purday . R . Spencer . The first of these songs , " the Entered Apprentice , " is stated to have been written ancl composed by Bro . Matthew Burkead , about the year 1723 ; and so it was , excepting the sixth verse , which is an addition but no improvement , viz . — . " We're true and sincere
, And just to the fair , They'll trust us on every occasion , No mortal can more Thc l . itlies adore , Than a Free and an Accepted Mason . " This verse is quoted from the Book of Constitutions for 1738 . AVe do not find , on a pretty close investigation , that the " Fair" have ever received " fair lay" from our Order ; that the wives and daughters
p of Masons are truthful and trusting we well know ; but equivocal compliment , very nearly amounting to a falsehood , tells against and not in favour of an Order , so pure as Freemasonry really is . Scarcely a year has passed since the attempt to permit a widow to bring in her petition at any time , after a husband ' s decease before the Board of Benevolence was frittered clown to two years ; and no later than at the Grand Lodge of Juneand again in the present monthmemorials from country Lodges
, , were presented , and a posse comitatus , headed by noblemen and gentlemen , attended , ancl prevented an increase of dues for the purpose of granting annuities to the widows of Masons . '' Just to the fair , " indeed ! AVe regret that poor clear Mrs . Caudle is defunct—were she living we would send her into Devonshire and Yorkshire in particular , and teach Masons not to forego their allegiance , but to sing ' more appropriately as regards woman . ¦
AA ^ e have almost forgotten our immediate duty , whicli is with Bro . Purday ' s compositions—they are all of them pleasing , easy , and fluent , and form excellent melody for the convivial hour ; their Masonic inference will probably , with many of the more thoughtful Brethren , tend to isupersede songs of a lighter character ; and . we . advise all Lodges to have " A- copy at hand . ,