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MACKEY'S FREEMASONEY . * * * EIGHTH EDITION , thoroughly Revised , with all Recent Changes and Alterations . By M . C . Peck , Provincial Grand Sec . for N . and E . Yorkshire . A LEXICON OP FREEMASONRY . By Albert G . Mackey , M . D ., Secretary-General of the Supreme Council of the U . S ., & c . Large post Svo ., handsomely bound in cloth . Price 6 s . * * ** Of MACKEY ' LEXICON- it would be impossible to speak in too high terms ; suffice it to say , that it ought to be in the hands of every Mason who would thoroughly understand and master our noble Science . . . . No Masonic Lodge or Library should be without a copy of this most useful work . "—Masonic News . " The Editor has had access to sources of information open to few . . . . A THOROUGHLY RELIABLE WORK . "—Yorkshire Gazette . LONDON : CHARLES GRIFFIN & Co ., Exeter-st ., Strand .

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ROYAL MASONIC INSTITUTION FOR GIRLS , ST . JOHN'S HILL , BATTERSEA RISE , S . W . CHIEF PATRONESS : HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN . GRAND PATRON AND PRESIDENT : HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS THE PRINCE OF WALES K . G ., & c , M . W . G . M . GRAND PATRONESS : HER ROYAL HIGHNESS THE PRINCESS OF WALES . THE NINETY-EIGHTH ANNIVERSARY FESTIVAL of this Institution will take place On WEDNESDAY , the igth MAY next , under the Presidency of GEN . J . STUDHOLME BROWNRIGG , C . B ., R . W . PROV . GRAND MASTER OF SURREY . President—BRO . THE RIGHT HON . THE LORD MAYOR . At tins ? Presidents—BRO . CHARLES GREENWOOD , P . G . S . B ., D . Prov . G . M . Surrey . „ Capt . GEORGE LAMBERT , F . S . A ., P . G . S . B ., Vice-Patron . „ CHARLES BELTON , F . R . G . S ., P . Prov . G . D . Surrey , Vice-Patron . Treasurer—BRO . JOHN L . MATHER . Chairman of Ladies' Stewards—BRO . EDGAR BOWYER , P . G . Std . Br ., Vice-Patron . Brethren willing to serve the office of Steward are very urgently needed ; and they will greatly oblige by forwarding their names as early as possible Jo the Secretary , who will gladly give any information required . F . R . W . HEDGES , Secretary . Office—5 , Freemasons' Hall , Great Queen Street , London , W . C .

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TO OUR READERS . THE FREEMASON is published every Friday morning , price 3 d ., and contains the fullest and latest information relating to Freemasonry of every degree . Subscriptions , including Postage : — United States , United Kingdom . Canada , the Continent , India , China , Ceylon , thc Colonies Sic . Arabia , Sec . 13 s . 6 d . 15 s . 6 d . 17 s . 6 d . Remittances may be made in Stamps , but Post Ollice Orders or cheques are preferred , the former payable to GEOKOE KKNNIN- * , Chief Ollice , London , the latter crossed London Joint Stock Dank ,

To Correspondents.

To Correspondents .

PROVINCIAL DIRECTORIES , & c . We wish to complete our reviews of these useful Masonic Directories of Provincial Grand Lodges and Lodges for the year 1 SS 6 . Reviews of the following * will be found in the Freemason at the dates mentioned . We shall be glad to receive any others that ate published , and hope then to prevail on Bro . Hughan to furnish a notice of the whole , as he has done occasionally in past years . Province & iSSG

, c , . Freemason . Middlesex Dec . 19 , 1885 . Sussex Jan . 2 , 1 SS 6 . Yorkshire jan . 30 , 1 SS 6 . Lancaster Mar . 6 , 1 SS 6 . Dorsetshire Mar . 13 , 1 SS 6 . Suffolk- Mar . 20 , 1 SS 6 . * Wilts ... do . Leicestershire and Rutland ... April 3 , 1 SS 6 .

Cambi idgeshnc ... do . Gloucestershire April 10 , 1 SS 6 . Derbyshire April 17 , 1 SS 6 . Essex ... do . Somersetshire do . Oxfordshire May 1 , 1 S 86 . Copies for review should be sent to the Editor of the Freemason . The list should be increased by half a dozen Provincial Directories , at least .

BOOKS . & c , RECEIVED . " Masonic Review , " " The Freemason " ( Toronto ) , " Keystone , " "Allen ' s Indian Mail , " "Cassell ' s National Library , " " Newcastle Daily Journal , " " Thc Freemason " ( Sydney ) , " Hull and East Yorkshire Times , " "Jewish Chronicle , " "Masonic Era and Analectic , " "Sunday Times" ( New York ) , " New York Dispatch , " " La Revivta Masonici , " " Sunday Times " ( London ) , " Court Circular , " " Yorkshire Gazette , " " Masonic World , " " Citizen , " and " Holiday Notes in East Anglia . "

Original Correspondence.

Original Correspondence .

t ^ ESf ^^ l !^ - SATURDAY , MAY I , 1886 . ?

( . Wc do not hold ourselves responsible for , or even approving of the opinions expressed by ourcorrespondents . but we wish in a spirit of fair play to all to permit—within certain necessary limits—free discussion . *]

PAST MASTERS . To the Editor of the " Freemason . " Dear Sir and Brother , I have read with care and attention the letter in your issue ot 17 th ult ., signed "Lex Scripta . " 1 will not here criticise his opinions on the various subjects he treats of , as I cannot agree with him as to their similarity . I will try to confine myself to the point as to Past Masters

and that which relates to them . He says " the gist of my letter " in your issue of ioth ult ., signed *• P . M ., "is that "Past MastecsarenotOfficers , " and he proceeds to try to prove that they are officers . Let us see how far he succeeds . He says , " A careful perusal of the Constitutions as a whole must lead Os to conclude that P . M . ' s ( complying of course with Art . 9 I arc recognised by the Constitutions as officers of private

lodges . " With all due respect to " Lex Scripta , " I say the Constitutions as a whole has a multitude of other matters to deal with , and therefore , as a whole , the book is too wide a field for our purpose ; it will suffice us to confine our researches to those portions of the laws that in any way bear on the subject of P . M . ' s , their rank , privileges , duties , regalia , & c . I will , however , take the numbers he specially refers to and begin with No . 9 . This law , I submit ,

confines itselt to conferring Grand Lodge rank on a brother who has filled the office of Master ; it is , as it were , elevating him to the permanent peerage of Grand Lodge membership , is and the reward for having attained to the position of a Past Master in conformity with other laws laid down . True , an acting Warden is also a member of Grand Lodge , but this is by virtue of his office , and the right ceases when he ceases to be a Warden unless he is installed as Master &^

of a lodge under the Constitution of the Grand Lodge of England . And , also , so is an Installed Master a member of Grand Lodge so long as he is filling that office ; but this also is by virtue of his oflice . 1 hope " Lex Scripta " will not be startled if 1 enquire here what becomes of the Grand Lodge rank of an Installed Master who fails from any cause to fulfil the duties of his office for the time specified . ' Instances are on record where an Installed Master

, through illness or removal to an inconvenient distance , finds it is impossible for him to discharge his duties . During this period 141 provides for his absence , * but what becomes of him afterwards—that is , when his successor is installed i If he still subscribes , is he a Past Master in full accord with Art . 9 ? The words in line 4 of Art . 9— " Who has filled that office for one year " —seem to be meaningless , unless they are intended to cut off the Grand Lodge rank from an Installed

Master who subscribes , but who has not filled his office for the due term , quite as much as the words in line 5 of same law cuts off the right from a P . M , who has filled the office of Master , but who has ceased to subscribe . If I am correct in my deductions herefrom , then a W . M . is only on probation for Grand I-odgje rank as a member thereof , and that , having filled his office for the allotted time , he passes from the position of officer to the rank of P . M . and member of

brand Lodge by right of service , and is no longer a lodge officer ; he has served his office and earned his promotion , * he is an independent member of Grand Lodge , and not a representative of either his lodge or his Master , unless he is specially delegated , and accepts such delegation ; but otherwise he can both speak and vote against his W . M . if he does not agree with him .

" Lex Scripta" also refers me to Arts . 50 , 141 , and 227 , and , with very much deference to him and those who hold with him , 1 must entirely dissent from lhe inference he endeavours to adduce from those , and there are some others very similar , which he can have into the bargain . 50 simply says : "If the W . AI . cannot attend the General Committee , any subscribing Past Master of the lodge may supply his place . " 141 provides that in the Master's