Grand Mark Lodge.

his left the late Duke of Albany . On the right of the Temple , hang the portraits of the late Earl of Lathom , the Earl of Euston , and Lord Egerton of Tatton , and , on the left , those of Bro . W . W . B . Beach , the Marquess of Hertfordand Earl Amherst . Over the door is the organ

, erected to the memory of the late Canon Partal , the dedication appearing on a broad band of brass which encircles the base . The furniture of the Temple is of light English oak , picked out in gold , and upholstered in Imperial purple . The architecture and decoration are in classic Greek , delicately

frescoed and softly tinted . Leaving the Temple and returning by the vestibule , we lind facing us two most interesting rooms . On the right the Board-room , and on the left the chamber wherein Bro . Matier controls the destinies of the Mark Degree .

INTKRIOR OF GREAT HALL ( LOOKING WEST ) .

Richly decorated with till the florid modelling and carving of the period of Gibbons , these rooms tire architecturally interesting . The beautiful overmantel in the Board-room , which , in the days when Bacon ' s Hotel was in existence , wtis covered with coat after coat of cruel paint , has been carefully

and lovingly denuded of its vandal disguise by that eminent authority in decorative art , Bro . James Macintosh , and now appears in all its artistic glory ; the oil-painting which fills the panel is by Boucher , and the beautiful carving from the hand of Gibbons himself . Here in these rooms , for forty

years , in joy and sorrow , in the hey-day of her success , and in the shadow - of her retirement , lived Miss Pope , the actress of the middle of the eighteenth century , the successor of Kitty Clive , the friend of Garrick ' s youthful days , and the goddess of Churchill's poetic dream . In 1761 he wrote of her : —

"With all the native vigor of sixteen , Among the merry groups conspicuous seen ; See lively Pope advance to jig and trip , Corinna , Cherry , Honeycomb , and Snip ; Not without art , but yet to nature true ,

She charms the town with humour just yet new ; Cheered by her promise , we the less deplore , The fatal time when Clive shall be no more . " A fairy indeed , but , "O ! tempora O ! mores ! " in 1807 she is described by a sour contemporary as '' a bulky person with a

duplicity of chin . " Round the walls of the Board-room of to-day , then hung the portraits of Mrs . Oldlield and her little son , afterwards General Churchill , of Lord Nuneham , of Garrick , and of Holland , this last her faithless lover and promised spouse . Here , her tiny feet tapping the fender ,

and her tearless eyes looking in the face of her friend and adviser Garrick , she heard the story of her faithless lover . She did not end her days here , however , for strangely enough she was driven from home by the uproarious proceedings of the brethren of that day . As our authority quaintly puts it : " she found the Freemasons too lively

neighbours , " and again " from the Tavern on a summer ' s evening when the windows tire perforce kept open , the sounds of ' prosperity to the Deaf and Dumb Charity , ' sent forth a corresponding clatter of glasses , which made everybody in Miss Pope ' s back drawing-room for the moment fit

objects for that benevolent institution . " But times change , and in that room from which the sparkling actress was driven , sits to-day that judicial body in whose hands tire placed the advisory government of the Degree . The spaces on the walls , erstwhile occupied by the Oldlields and the Garricks ,