Masonic Notes And Queries.

Air EXTEACT . In " Notes and Queries , " for June 26 , 1 find the following ( see pp . 603-4 ) : — " FEEEHASONET . " ( 4 th S . iii . 504 . ) " I do not know the book to which J . B . C . refers ;

but I have before me a book of some five hundred and fifty pages , small print Svo , the title-page of which is as follows : — " Lights on Masonry : A Collection of all the most important Documents on the Subject of Speculative Eree Masonry ; embracing the Reports of the "Western

Committees in relation to the Abduction of William Morgan , Proceedings of Conventions , Orations , Essays , & c , & c . ; Avith all the Degrees conferred in a Master ' s Lodge , as written by Captain "William Morgan . All the Degrees conferred in tbe Eoyal Arch Chapter and Grand Encampment of Knights

Templars , with the appendant Orders , as published by the Convention of Seceding Masons , held at Le Eoy , July 4 th and 5 th , 1828 . Also , a Eevelation of all the Degrees conferred in the Lodge of Perfection , and Eifteen Degrees of a still higher Order , Avith Seven Erench Degrees : making Forty-eight Degrees of

Ereemasonry . With Notes and Critical Eemarks . By Elder David Bernard , of "Warsaw , Genessee Co ., N . V ., once an intimate Secretary in tbe Lodge of Perfection , aud Secretary of the Convention of Seceding Masons , held at Le Eoy , July 4 th and 5 th , 182 S : —

"' Por there is nothing covered that shall not be revealed , and hid that shall not be known . "' And what ye hear in the ear , that preach ye on the house tops . J—s C—T . " "' Utica : "William Williams , Printer , Genessee Street , 1829 . '

" It is not unlikely that the book referred to by your correspondent is a sort of reprint of the above , or of a portion of it . The book before me is Avell got up .- it contains a portrait of William Morgan , a . respectable-looking , clerically-dressed gentleman , sitting at a tableAvith spectacles raised and resting on

, his forehead , his left hand to his head ( the representation of one in a meditative mood ) , and writing materials on a table before him . I have heard that this book is very rare ; in fact , that the copy before me is the only one in this country . " Limerick . " MAUKICE LENIHAN . M . E . I . A . '

" I fancy that the curious book , Ritual and Illustrations of Freemasonry , is somewhat difficult to meet with , as I do not remember ever meeting with a copy besides my own . This , nevertheless , professes to be the " fourth thousand , " and styles itself tbe people ' s edition . Its date is 1848 and it is " sold in London

, by Partridge and Oakey , 34 , Paternoster-roAv . " The printer , in case of difficulty in procuring the work from a bookseller , invites application , with thirty-six postage stamps , to J . Thorne , Shebbear , Devon . With these indications , notAA-ithstanding the lapse of time , I hope that J . B . C . may succeed in procuring a copy .

" Birmingham . " WILLIAM BATES . " " The Avork inquired after is well known ; it was originally published in America . Tbe late Eev . Eobert Taylor , A . B ., and " Devil ' s chaplain , '' made great use of it in his anti-Masonic lectures , which

contain much curious matter , aud are free from the vulgar infidelity and blasphemy that he so frequenter indulged in . The Ritual , Sfc ., so far as Masonry is concerned , is made up from the old " Jachin and Boaz , " and from an old book of which I possess a copy , and Avhich bears the folloAving title : —

" ' Les plus secrets Mysteres des Hants Grades de la Magonnerie devoiles , ou le vrai Eose-Croix . Traduit de l'Anglois ; suivi du Noachile , traduit de l'Allemand . Nouvelle edition augmentee . A Jerusalem , il . DCC . LXXIV . ' " I presume that the imprimatur is , and . that the two traduits are tbe same . —H . C . " STEPHEN JACKSON . "

EOSE CEOIX TBACING-BOAED ( page 4 ante ) . Bro . " Dnalxo " will , perhaps , excuse the following remarks anent his interesting sketch Avith the three columns—Doric , Ionic , and Corinthian—on it . As for the Doric—if intended for Grecian , which I believe it is , and Avhich I conceive Avould be bestwh

, y has it a square base , and why is its diameter so much out of proportion to its height ? either the diameter should have been greater or the hei ght less . * A Doric column , of course , has no base ; it stood directly on the stylobate . The stylobate is either a platform with steps or a continuous pedestal

supporting a row of columns . The Ionic column is Eoman , might it not have been better as Grecian ? it is also , perhaps , rathersmall . However , on the whole , I like these sketches ; that of the jeAvel is very neat . —PICTUS . ANCIENT MTSTEEIES OF ASIA MINOE .

The paper which appeared in your pages by Bro . Hyde Clarke , on " The Idtei Dactyli and Mysteries of Cybele , " has been republished in tbe Quarterly Journal of the Ethnological Society , Part I ., and also in a separate form . Our brother has been appointed Foreign Secretary of that Society and Secretary of the Section of Comparative Philology . — C . W .

THE POPE AND THE FBEEJIASONS . Cardinal Antonelli and the Black Papalini AVIIO govern our Bro . the Pope are going to make another smash ot the Ereemasons . The cecumenical council of bishops to be assembled at Eome next December will pronounce its anathemas against various heresies

and abominations seriatim . Among the criminals will be found in one category , "Secret Societies " ( i . e ., Freemasons)—and what else think your readers 2 " Bible Societies ! " Freemasons will feel almost honoured at being linked with Bible Societies as the opponents of the enemies of truth and li ght . —W . W .

TEAR OF LIGHT ( pp . 10 and 31 ) . I may have something to say upon this after my other matter , which has been forwarded , appears . — W . P . BUCHAN . THE PEINCE OF AVALES . A " New Member" will find , on referring to the reports of Grand Lodge meetings , that H . E . H . either has bad , or is to have , the rank of a P . G . M . conferred , on him . —J . A . H .