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carefully through , Avhich AVO have done Avith sincere gratification . Loomis ' s Musical and Masonic Journal is published at "NcAvhavcn , Conn , U . S ., and

is certainly a very interesting publication . It is not the first time that music and Masonry have gone hand-in-hand , and , just at this time , our brethren seem to be paying groat attention to Masonic melody . Indeedit is a remarkable fact in our

, history IIOAV many old Masonic tunes exist ; and Ave would venture to suggest to the editor of Loomis ' s Journal , the propriety of printing from time to time purely Masonic music . Wo can commend tho musical jiortion especially of the " Journal "

to those fair sisters of ours who rejoice our ears Avith tho sounds of harmonious cadence , or the magical manipulation of chord and note .

Church Sermons by Eminent Clergymen . —Reeves , Son & Co . Though Ave do not profess to revieAv " Sermons " in the Magazine , as Ave have nothing to do AA'ith theological questions , no more than Avith political , A \ e think that

Ave may fairly commend these tAVo volumes to the notice of our readers . Well printed , and the productions of some of the ablest preachers of the Church of England , they deserve , both , to be carefully read , and calmly thought over . The publication

reflects all credit on those Avho brought it out ; and AVO trust that it may be favoured Avith the " popularis aura " of support and approval .

The Rationale of Freemasonry . An Oration by the Rev . Daniel Ace R . Spencer , P . G . C ., Lincolnshire . We have read this able little " brochure " Avith much pleasure . It expresses clearly , ancl forcibly alikethe VIOAVS of the Avriter

, , and the teaching of Freemasonry . Indeed , the "Rationale of Freemasonry , '' as the AA-riter would say , or if he does not say it , as " Artagnan " says , in the Trois Monsquotaires , " he ought to have said it , " leaves no further groundsindeedfor the

unrea-, , soning cavils and complaints of uninformed opponents . We commend this . little "Oration" to the perusal of our brethren in Masonry .

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The Story of Aristaius and his Bees , by R . M . Miilington . —Longman & Co . This , though not a Masonic work , commends itself to all educated Freemasons , as it is , indeed , a true rendering , hi blank verse , of the fourth Georgie of Virgil .

The translation is easy and natural , ancl does full justice to the original , ancl it has given us great pleasure to read over the well-knoAvn utterance of the Mantuan bard , clothed in such expressive ancl Avellobosen words . Indeed , one is taken back ,

through a long array of years , to an old school , and old teachers , to the "junior-fifth up at books , " to p leasant memories of kindly teaching , of old familiar faces , and to subdued associations of the " Prtefect of school , " and of classical apple twigs .

HOAV time does pass . It is but yesterday , as it were , AVC Avere repeating in sonorous cadence , full of youth , fire and hope , " Illo Tirgilium me tempore duli ' is alebat Parthenope , studiis florentem ignobilisoti : Carmina qui lusi partorum audaxque juventa , Tityrete patuhc cecini sub tegminefagi "

, , and here Ave are , old , ancl cold , ancl Avorn , to-day , stooping and grey-haired , with all the symptoms of , nevertheless , let us hope , a " blanda senectus . " W .

The Heart-Cure.

THE HEART-CURE .

A LIFE SKETCH . Arthur Latour , at the age of four-andtAventy , Avas about as low-spirited and discontented as a man could be ; ancl yet his fair-AVoather friends accounted him the " most fortunate clog in existence . " Ho

had only himself in the wide world to care for , and his store of material wealth was more than he could over fairly spend . He had been an only child , and his parents had died when be Avas a boy at school , leaving him a fortune of hundreds of thousands .

The guardian appointed to care for the heir ancl tor the property had been faithful , and at the age of one-and-tAventy the youth , fresh from college , stepped into the life of manhood and into full possession of more than half a million of dollars . Those Avho

had knoAvn Avith Avhat honor Arthur graduated at college predicted for him a useful ancl manful life ; but he had sadly disappointed them . Ho had not been seriously dissipated , nor had be been crimniaUy reckless in any direction . He had sought