Eminent Masons At Home.

as he mentally goes over the doings of the past , and reviews his connection with the Craft without much effort of memory-He has never attained to any very exalted position in it so far as office is concerned , but you , fortunately , know of many good dcetls he will not tell you of , and many occasions when he has stretched the hand of fellowship very much beyond the limit to which this

visionary member is sometimes stretched . He was initiated in 1 S 53 in the Lodge of Israel ( 247 ) and passed the chair three years later . In the same year—1 S 56—he was Lecture Master of the Prosperity Lodge of Instruction , for fulfilling which post he was presented with a service of silver plate by its members ; and

founded the Benevolent Fund of his Mother Lodge , for which £ " 1 , 000 was very quickly collected . In the same year , also , he served a

stewardship of the Boys ' and Girls' Institutions , and was invested with the collar of Prov . Grand Organist of

Hertfordshire . In 1 S 57 he initiated his father into the mysteries of the Craft , and installed his brother , Mr . J . M .

Isaacs , as his successor in the chair of the Israel Lodge . From the Lodge

of Tranquillity he was presented with a silver claret-jug and salver in recognition of his services to the Lodge . In the same year he

presided at the twentyeighth annual festival of the Emulation Lodge of Instruction , and filled the chair of numerous

festivals connected with the charitable funds of private Lodges . From then , for a period of thirty years , he

progressed soundly but slowly through his various Masonic obligations until he connccteel himself with the Drury Lane

Lodge , into the chair of which he will shortly be installed at the Mansion House by Bro . J . C . Parkinson . Ofanecdotes and charming

recollections Sir Henry is full , and he tells you of those daysthose days , Sir Henry says — when he was hired from his bed by some rollicking young Masons to deliver the fifteen sections without fifteen mistakes , to decide a wager that had been made upon the event . You wish , for this afternoon ,

there was no City and no Lord Mayor , so that yon might sit and listen to Sir Henry Isaacs without hindrance ; but presently a gorgeously-apparelled footman announces the arrival of visitors to lunch , and you recognise Sir George Chubb , Under-sheriff Board , and Bro . and Mrs . Ben Davies , among a distinguished company of social and city magnates . To the hospitable board of the

THE RIGHT HON . SIR IIKXKY A . ISAACS , LORH MAYOR .

Mansion House you in course ot time adjourn , and are fortunately placed between Sir George and Bro . Under-Shcriff Beard , who post you up in the latest financial and City news . You are sorry to hear from the great lock-maker that his schemes for providing houses and reading-rooms , & c , for his workpeople have not been successful , but your feelings are recompensed by a promise from Bro .

Beard of one of the medals struck from the lead that was taken from the roof of Temple Bar when it was removed from its original position at the western entrance to the City . With an inward hope that he will keep his word to you more faithfully than Mr . George Augustus Sala did when he promised you that tracing

of the Roman Church , from which he persistently believed Sir Christopher stole the idea of his attic-story , the interesting luncheon , and

the guests in the long parlor melt away with the coffee and curling smoke of your Turkish cigarette , and yon are

once more seated with Lord Mayor Isaacs , anxiously hoping that

Mr . Soulsby will take a very considerable time in digesting his meal before he conies upon the scene to destroy your enjoyment . The

ceaseless buzz of the traffic outside has not lessened for one instant , and the day is as dark as the deepest night . Out into

the rushing torrent of humanity and inhumanity you presently fade , and are lost amid the struggling 'bus horses

that drag their loads along from morn to eve until they die of sheer exhaustion . Down Cheapside you wander , past that inimitable spire cf

St . Bride ' s , skirting the hidden dome of St . Paul ' s , through Ludgate and the Fleet , until you

turn into your domicile in the Temple , where once you had fondly hoped to see the dear old " Bar ' ' reverently rehabilitated . Across the void of black

nothingness outside your window you see a dim light as at the break of day , and presently the blackness gives place to a pale glimmer , and eventually you see the trail of a setting sun going down to rest without a particle of glory . Up City at the spot where the commercial transactions of the universe pivot , in front of the Royal Exchange and the Bank of England , within the walls of

that one building which , more than any other perhaps , hides the history of the greatest city in the world , the Lord Mayor will continue his hospitality till the end of his term of office , and will fulfil his obligations to the Chair of the Drury Lane Lodge with honor and completeness .