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The History Of Freemasonry,

THE HISTORY OF FREEMASONRY ,

FROM ITS ORIGIN TO THE PRESENT DAY . Drawn from the best sources and thc most recent investigations . BY J . G . FINDEL , Second Edition , Revised , and Preface written by Bro . D . MURRAY LYON .

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" Tbe author seems to have fairly exhausted thc subject . "—Tlie Athenaeum . " The edition we are now considering is a second English edition , which had the great advantage of Bro . D . M . Lyon ' s able superintendence and editorship in its English dress . There can be no doubt but , that so far , Bro . Findel ' s work is tbe most complete work on Fieemasonry

wbich has jet appeared , and that he deserves the greatest credit for his careful and accurate treatment of all evidence on the subject , and for bis honest desiie after truth . Bro . Findel gives up in the view he has so clearly and consistently put foith our eaily Masonic history , the older then ) -f the Roman Colleges , & c , and limits the origin of Freemasonry to about tbe twelfth century , and as

then ajising- from tbe operative Masons , and specially the " Steinmeitzen" and " Bauhutten" of Germany . Bro . Findel gives us a good deal of evidence on this head , and one thing is clear from his work , that the German Frecmaso s were , at a very early period , organized into lodges with Master over them , and with outward regulations and inner eremonies peculiar to the Craft . Bro . Findel rejects

all the views which have been from time to time put forward of a Templar or a Rosicrucian origin . Whether or no Bro , Findel ' s theory of tbe date of the rise of Freemasonry be correct , matters very little : we do not ourselves profess to accept it ; but this we can fairly say of Bro Findel's work , it is marked from first to last hy the most remarkable tokenof industry , ability , and care , of patient research , and > n r (* ll rk 11 ( 1

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EXCELLENT KEY . —toai letter cannot be printed , owing to the resolution arrived at with reference to such a discussion . See second leader . The following stand over—Letters from " Progress , " "The Wife of an Apprentice , " R . F . A ., "Another Country P . M . " Report of Lodge 1101 , Reading ; 1331 , Aldershot .

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TheFreemason, SATURDAY , OCTOBER 24 , 1874 .

The "Church Herald. "

THE "CHURCH HERALD .

Our contemporary , the Church Herald , in its impression of the 14 th inst , gravely informs its readers that it had recently inserted an article on Fieemasonry , which has " received , " it adds , " as

we know , very great attention . " ( See p . 591 . ) There are always a good many people in the world who are pleased with small things , and grateful for small blessings . Our contemporary is evidently

endowed with one of those happy dispositions , and we both admire and envy the possession of such contented equanimity . Indeed , he very much resembles the person who once told a

friend that he had had the privilege of being addressed by " Le Grand Monarque . " " What were his words ? " inquired his friend . " Oh , well , he said to me when he saw me , get out of

my way , you dirty rascal ! " We are always reluctant to disturb any one ' s self-satisfaction , or to deprive him of any pleasure arising from the facile exercise of self-laudation . But we fear that if any attention has really been paid by