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Now READY . NEW MASONIC WORK . Demy Svo . About 300 pages . Price Ios . HISTORY OF FREEMASONRY IN THE PROVINCE OF ROXBURGHSHIRE AND SELKIRKSHIRE , FROM 1674 TO THE PRESENT TIME . Transcribed from the Records of the Lodges of Melrose , Selkirk , Kelso , Haughfoot , Jedburgh , Hawick > Stow , Galashiels , and Yetholm , BY W . FRED . VERNON , Past Depute Provincial Grand Master Roxburghshire and Berwickshire ; P . M . and Bard Nos . 58 and 261 ; Hon . Mem . Nos . i > , 104 , 262 , 2 S 0 , and 424 S . C . ; Local Secretary for South Scotland of the C . C . Quatuor Coronati , No . 2076 , AUTHOR OF " Kelso , Past and Present , " " Tales from the Diary of a Doctor , " "John Tamson ' s Bairn , " & c „ & c , WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY WILLIAM JAMES HUGHAN , Past Grand Deacon England ; Past Senior Grand Warden Iowa , U . S . A . ; P . Prov . G . Sec . and P . Prov . S . G . W . Cornwall , & c , & c . DEDICATED BY PERMISSION TO The Most Wor . the Grand Master Mason of Scotland , THE RT . HON . THE EARL OF HADDINGTON . GEORGE KENNING , ifi and 16 A , Great Queen-street , London . W . C .

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THE FOLLOWING HOTELS OF THE MIDLAND RAILWAY COMPANY will be found complete in all the arrangements , and the charges moderate . MIDLAND GRAND ( St . Pancras Station ) London , N . W . The new Venetian Rooms at this Hotel are available for Wedding Breakfasts , and Public and Private and Masonic Banquets . ADELPHI ( Near Central Station ) , LIVERPOOL . QUEEN'S , LEEDS . MIDLAND , BRADFORD . MIDLAND , DERBY . MIDLAND , MORECAMBE . Tariffs on application . Telegraphic Address— " MlDOTEL . " WILLIAM TOWLE , Hotels , & c , Manager .

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To Correspondents.

To Correspondents .

OUR PORTRAIT GALLERY OF WORSHIPFUL MASTERS . In future numbers of the Freemason we purpose giving a series of portraits of Worshipful Masters who have been recently installed . Recognising the fact that no greater honour can be bestowed on s brother than to be elected the Master of his lodge , \ vi

desire to do our part towards creating a permanent record of such event in his Masonic history by placing his portrait before our readers . We shall be pleased to furnish Secretaries of lodges and others who may take an interest in our project whatever information may be desired as to our proposed method of procedure .

The following communications , amongst others , unavoidably stand over : CRAFT LODGES . —Strong Man , No . 4 $ ; Yarborough , No . 344 ; Royal Union , No . 38 a ; St . Peters , No . 419 ; United Pilgrims , No . 50 J ; Leigh , No . 957 j Amherst , No . UJ 3 ; Chorlion , No . 138 J ; Royal Commemoration , No . 158 $ ; Sir Hugh Myddelton , No . 160 a ; Ubique , No , 1780 ; Abbey Lodee ot Westminster

No . 3030 ; Kingswood , No . 3378 ; Acacia , No . 2331 ; and hrmine , No . 2351 ; MARK LODGES—St . Ann's , No . 3 ^ 7 ; and Royal Cannaught , No . 409 Gr & nd Lodge of Scotland . Provincial Grand Lodge of East Lancashire . Provincial Grand Chapter of North and East Yorks .

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SATURDAY , MAY 20 , 1 893 .

Masonic Notes.

Masonic Notes .

We learn from the Sub-Prior , Sir Knight Richard Clowes , that the announcement made in our pages a short time since to the effect that H . R . H . the Duke of Connaught would be installed as Prior of the Province of Sussex was unauthorised by him , and that the date is not yet fixed . * * *

The seventh annual report of the Committee of the Shropshire Masonic Charitable Association bears witness to the energy of the brethren in this well-ordered Province , which , since its establishment as a separate organisation distinct from its neighbour and old

associate of North Wales , has done excellent work in this field of Masonic duty . No clearer proof of the very great ability of these Associations can be given than the announcement officially made in this document that during the seven years of its existence this Shropshire

Association has remitted to the three Masonic Institutions just a trifle less than ^ 2600 . We trust our Shropshire brethren will maintain this Association in the same condition of prosperity for many years to come , and that it will be the means of contributing still larger amounts in the future than it has done till now .

« * * The authorities of the Royal Masonic Institution for Boys are just considering how the work of revising the rules and regulations of the Institution can best be

effected . We have been favoured with a copy of the revised code in the form in which it is proposed to submit to the brethren at the Quarterly General Court in July , and shall take an early opportunity ol offering a few remarks on the changes contemplated .

On the 16 th inst . Bro . Lord Yarborough , Senior Grand Warden of England , and Provincial Grand Mark Master of Lincolnshire , was installed W . M . of

the Ermine Lodge at Lincoln . Bro . the Earl of Euston performed the ceremony , ami was assisted by Bro . C . F . Matier , P . G . Std . Br . Bro . the Hon . Victor Pelham is the retiring W . M . We shall give a full report in our next .

* * » According to a pastoral letter just published by the Bishop of Sdez , Monsiegneur Tregaro , Freemasonry is responsible , jointly with education laws and the military law , for the draught that afflicted France in company

with other countries , and the toleration extended to Freemasons has only to be withdrawn to open the floodgates of heaven to refresh the earth . Freemasonry has much to answer for according to Papal teaching , but this is an entirely novel accusation .

* We are favoured this week with a visit from that most energetic and ubiquitous of Past Masters , U . W Bro . J . Ross Robertson , P . G . M . of Canada . He appears to have run across the stream for the purpose

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of verifying some facts in his great history of " Freemasonry in Canada , " on which he is diligently at work in the intervals of his philanthropic and other duties A flying visit to Torquay for the purpose of consult ' ing our doyen of Masonic historians , Bro . W . J .

Hughan , has been a necessary and agreeable part of the programme , and Bro . Robertson returns almost at once to Canada . We regret his stay is too short on this occasion to enable his many Masonic friends in England to do him honour .

Reviews.

REVIEWS .

A SOUVENIR OF THE WORLD'S FAIR AT CHICAGO . Derby : Bremrose and Sons . The World's Fair at Chicago has brought forth a mass of printed matter more or less attractive , but we have seen nothing more chaste and artistic than the visitors souvenir presented by the Midland Railway Company , edited by the general manager , Mr . Geo . H . Turner , and printed by

Messrs . Bremrose and Son , of Derby . It is in paper , printing , and illustrations a perfect little gem . The illustrations , mostly of places of interest through which the Midland system passes , are printed in rich brown and interspersed amongst the text which is in a complimentary colour of bluish tint , on paper of an ivory shade and finish . The letter-press mav be described as a handy guide book ,

brightly written , and describing as briefly as may be the numerous attractions which a journey from one end to the other of the Midland Line can offer . Whether the writer is right in comparing the journey by rail and the sojourn in palatial hotels with the journey in a post-chaise and the comfortable inn of former days , to the advantage of the

former may be open to question , but the fact remains that the delights of which Dr . Johnson wrote are things of the past , and the colossal hotel and railway carriage are with us for better or worse . We have no doubt the little souvenir will act as a powerful inducement to many of our American friends to turn their steps to the old country after exploring the wonders of the " Fair . "

THE CAXTON HEAD CATALOGUE . Number CCLX . has just been issued by Mr . and Mrs . Tregaskis , of High Holborn , and a marvellously compiled and handsome production it is . Full of rare treasures dear to the bibliopole and antiquarian , and therefore sufficiently interesting on that account alone , but it is in itself a work of art . Reproductions of curious old wood-cuts , title pages , numbered and described in the text , are profusely

scattered through the list , but the gems of the production are the choice and marvellously realistic facsimile drawings in colour of rare old bindings , the collection of which Mr . and Mrs . Tregaskis have made a distinct feature of their business . Such enterprise as they have exhibited , even in the production of their catalogues , deserves all success , and collectors who desire to be posted up to date cannot do without those issues from the the "Caxton Head . "

Masonic Notes And Queries.

Masonic Notes and Queries .

1029 ] — This seems a most opportune time for brethren who have any relics of Irish Freemasonry to put them before the Craft . Bro . Crossle , of Newry , Ireland is hard at work on a " History of our Order in Ireland , " and every scrap of information will be most valuable to him just now . I am indebted to that prince and

nestor of Freemasonry , Bro . W . J . Hughan , for an old book , " The poetical works of Rev . James Sterling , Dublin , printed by and for George Faulkner , in Essex Street M , DCC , XXX , IV ., " in which is the oldest reference to the Craft in Ireland ( save the Constitutions of 1730 ) that has yet come to light . I herewith append a copy of the ballad , which may interest some of your readers . The Master Mason ' s

BALLAD , Sung At a Pantomimic Entertainment in the Theatre . On , on , my brave boys , and . pursue my great lecture : Refine on the models * of old Architecture : To Masons high honour such diligence brings ; Those brothers of princes , and fellows of Kings !

We'll drive the rude vandals and Got / is off the stage ; Reviving the arts of Augustus' fam'd age ! Lo ! Titus destroy'd the vast temple in vain , Since fifty more rose in fair Anna's blest reign ! Of fones , Wren , and Angelo , mark the great names ; Immortal they live as their Tiber and Thames ! To heav ' n and themselves they such monuments rais'd ; That now with the Saints they ' re recorded and prais'd !

On , on , my brave boys , and erect a great name ! This pile , so majestic , consigns you to fame ' . Rever'd it shall stand 'till nature expire ; And dreadfully fall when the world is on fire ' . See five noble Orders dispos'd here with art ! See strength , truth , and beauty , diffused through each part ! Proportion ' s , dumb harmony , gracing the whole , Gives our work , like the great creation , a soul !

But , now , my brave boys , see what spirits our toil ; Indulges the genius , and bids labour smile ! To free social Masons a bumper be crown'd ; To Masons a bumper , and let it go round ! Again , my bold brethren , again let it pass ! Our ancient firm union cements with the glass ! And all the contention ' mong Masons shall be , Who better shall work , and who best shall agree ! 891— A . Q . C .