Ar00600

NOTICE . The . Subscription to THE FREEMASON is now ios . per annum , post-free , payable in advance . Vol . I ., bound in cloth 4 s . 6 d . Vol . 11 ., ditto . is . 6 d . «/ ol . s III ., IV ., V . and VI each 15 s . od . Reading Cases to hold 52 numbers ... 2 s . 6 d . Ditto ditto 4 do . ... is . 6 d . United States of America .

THE FREEMASON is delivered free in any part of tha United States for 12 s . per annum , payable in advance . The Freemason is published on Saturday Mornings in time for the early trains . The price of the Free . Tiason is Twopence per week ; annual subscription , ios . ( payable in advance . ) All communication ' s , letters , & c ., to be addressed to the Editor , 98 , Fleet-street , E . C . The Editorwil ! pay careful attention to all MSS . entrusted tohim , but cannot undertake to return them unlessaccompanied by postal ; : stamps . Now Ready . INDEX to Vol . VI . of "THE FREEMASON . " May be had at the Publishing Oftce , 198 , Fleetstreet .

Ar00601

THE HISTORY OF FREEMASONRY , FROM ITS ORIGIN TO THE PRESENT DAY . Drawn from the best sources and the most recent investigations . BY J . G . FINDEL , Second Edition , Revised , and Preface written by Bro . D . MURRAY LYON . One / ol ., 800 pages 8 vc , with an Index . Cloth gilt . Price , ios . 6 d . " Tois boikts a strictly historical one , from which all is excluded that is not based upon ascertained or probable fact . "—Builder . " Of its value to Freemasons , as a detailed history of their Brotherhood , it is not possible to speak too highly . "—

Puttie Opinion . " The author seems to have fairly exhausted the sub-: ect . "—The Athenaeum . "The etlition 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 the most complete work on Freemasonry which has yet appeared , and that he deserves the greatest credit for his careful anil accurate treatment of all evidence on the subject , and for his honest desire after truth . Bro . Findel gives up in the view he bas so clearly and consistently put forth our early Masonic history , the older theory of the Roman Colleges , & c , and limits the origin

of Freemasonry to about the twelfth century , and as then arising from the operative Masons , and specially the " Steinmcitzen" 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 Free . . masons were , at a very early period , organized into lodges ¦ with a Master over them , and with outward regulations and

inner ceremonies 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 nc Bro . Findel ' s theory of tlie date of the rise of Freemasonry be correct , matters very little : we do not outscives profess to accept it ; but this we can faitly say of Bro Findel's work , it is marked from first to last by the most remarkable

tokenof industry , ability , and care , of patient research , and of skilful ci iticism . VVe know of no work which so clearly sets beforeus our amount of knowledge up to the present time on the great question of Masonic Arclueology , and there can be little doubt that what Preston ' s work is to English Freemasonry , Findel ' s work is to cosmopolitan Freemasonry . Indeed no student in Masonry can now dispense with it , ami it

is a perfect storehouse botli of Masonic evidence and Masonic illustrations . VVe earnestly recommend all the lodges in this country to obtain a copy for the lodge library before the work is bought up for America ; and we believe that no Mason will rise from the perusal of its pages without a higher idea both of the histoiica ) truth and intrinsic value of Freemasonry , and of fraternal regard and recognition to

the latest anil not the least well-informed or effective of our Masonic historians . The present century has produced no such equal , in authority and usefulness , to the great work of our Bro . Findel , and we wish him and it , in all of fraternal sympathy and kindly intent , many earnest

readers , and more grateful students . "—77 ic Masonic Magazine . "This volume is the history of Masonry par excellence Every interested person may regard it , therefore , as the present text-book on the subject . "—Manchester Guardian London : GEORGE KENNING , 19 S , Fleet Street .

Ad00607

Second Edition , Now Ready , 1 / 6 . A MASONIC MUSICAL SERVICE . In the key of C . for A „ T ., T „ B . Opening and Closing Odes . Craft Ceremonies . Royal Arch Ceremony . Consecration Ceremony . Grace before and after Meat . COMPOSED BV DR . J . C . BAKER , NO . 241 . LONDON . —Geo . Kenning , 198 , Fleet-street ; and 1 , 2 , and 3 , Little Britain . „ R . Spencer , 26 , Great Queen-street . LIVERPOOL . —Geo . Kenning , 2 , Monument-place . MANCHESTER . —E . Henry < S Co ., 59 , Deansgate . DUBLIN . —C . Hedgelong , 26 , Grafton-street . GLASGOW . —Geo . Kenning , 145 , Argyle-street .

Ad00608

THE MARK MASONS' SONG . IC COME , BRETHREN , OF THE MYSTIC TIE . " ¦ Dedicated by permission to the Rig ht Hon . the Earl Percy , M . P ., 30 ° , Right Worshipful Provincial Grand Master of Freemasons for Northumberland . Most Worshipful Grand Mark Master Mason of England . Words by Bro . T . Burdett Yeoman , Original Mark Lodge No . 1 ., com posed by Bro . Henry Parker , Orig inal Mark Lodge , No . 1 Office , 198 , Fleet-street .

Ad00602

MADAME TUSSAUD'S EXHIBITION

BAKER STREET . Now added , PORTRAIT MODELS of the CZAR OF RUSSIA , SIR GARNET WOLSELEY , the Three Judges in the Tichborne Trial , Cockburn ,. Mellor , and Lush ; the Shah of Persia , Marshal MacMahon , M . Thiers , and the late Mr . Charles Dickens . Admission is . Children under ten , Od . Extra Rooms , 6 d . Open from ten a . m . to ten p . m .

.

Answers To Correspondents.

Answers to Correspondents .

All Communications , Advertisements , & c , intended for insertion in the Number of the following Saturday , must reach the Office not later than 6 o ' clock on Wednesday e vening . ERRATUM . —The name of Bro . M . Sherwin , Organist 1076 , was erroneously printed as " the Rev M . Sherwin" in our report of the Summer Banqnet of the

Capper Lodge , Page 44 6 , August ist . P . M . —We have received no teport ofthe proceedings of the Provincial Grand Lodge of Surrey . The folllowing Communications stand over : — Letters from W . D ., Reports of Lodges , 220 , 667 , E . G . ; Lodges 102 , 219 , Cn . tpter 6 9 , and St . Mungo Encampment , S . C .

REMITTANCES RECEIVED . G . F . Gouley , St . Louis , U . S . 4 £ 2 2 o E . B . Cullen , Brisbane , Australia o 12 o Juan Romero , Canary Islands o 17 o Thomas Kennedy , Jamaica o 12 o Jesse B . Anthony , New York 204

To Our Foreign Subscribers.

TO OUR FOREIGN SUBSCRIBERS .

It is very necessary for our friends to advise us of all money orders they remit , more especially those from the United States of America , otherwise we ca .-. iot tell where to credit them . Several remain uncredited at the present time owing to no advice having been received .

Ar00610

The Freemason , SATURDAY , AUGUST 2 , 2 , 1874 .

Grand Masonic Gathering At Plymouth.

GRAND MASONIC GATHERING AT PLYMOUTH .

We rejoice to announce the complete success of the great and pleasant gathering of the united Provincial Grand Lodges of Devon and Cornwall for the reception of our Royal and Illustrious

Brother , H . R . H . the Prince of Wales . The whole of the proceedings seem to have passed over with the greatest eclat , and nothing appears to have hindered in the slightest degree the

completeness and carrying out the appointed programme , or to have marred in any way the harmony of the assembly , and the happiness of the brethren . One complaint has , indeed come

before us , which appears in another page , but which we hope has arisen purely from some little untoward misunderstanding , most regretable in itself as a fact ; it is yet let us trust ,

susceptible of friendly and fraternal explanation . Otherwise nothing , in fact , could be in better taste than the arrangements , and they reflect much credit on

the joint committee . The addresses to our R , oyal Brother were most happily conceived and composed , and served unniistakeably to demon-

Grand Masonic Gathering At Plymouth.

strate the loyal attath ntnt of the Cornwall anil Devonshire brethren to their exalted guest , and his royal house , at the same time that they remarkably evinced how Masonic truth is free

always from mere adulation and how warm and devoted are equally our Masonic sympathy and our patriotic affection . Our Royal Brother ' s reply was both manly and eloquent , and spoken ,

evidently , from the heart . Amid ridiculous accusations of political conspiracy and the childish , diatribes of heated adversaries , ignorant of our principles of belief and action , it must be most

consoling to all true English Freemasons , to hear the Heir Apparent to the Throne speaking in such warm and hearty terms of fraternal appreciation and goodwill towards the zealous

members of our calumniated Order . It surely is a good set-off * to know , ^ that , despite the attacks of the Ultramontane press and the fierce invectives of Episcopal assailants , our brother the

Prince of Wales rejoices to own us as his brethren , linds a happiness and satisfaction in being amongst us , and reciprocates with all of heartfelt sincerity and sympathy to our honest

and loyal and Masonic sentiments of devotion , affection and regard . Aud so Mote it be ! We can afford to treat as idle clamour and hopeless ineptitude , the jargon of controversial Romanists ,

and the incriminations of anonymous scribblers , when no less a person than our Royal Brother gladly accepts our unbought homage , and relies firmly on our loyalty and true Masonic

devotion . We feel sure that wi express the feelings of the entire Order when we congratulate our brethren of the Provinces of Cornwall and Devon on this most successful meeting . But one word

before we close . We think it right to point out a use of Masonic terms , which we regret to see creeping in amongst the brethren . We have suffered so much from slipslop vernacular in

things Masonic that we cannot afford to pass it over in silence . Why , with Bro . W . J . Hughan amongst them , did the united provinces term themselves the " United Grand Lodges ? " The

expression is , Masonically , most incorrect . And while more than one distinguished brother seems to have fallen into the error of using the same misnomer , we note with pleasure that our

Royal Brother , always most particular and correct , calls that famous assembly at Plymouth most rightly , " more Lathomico , " the " United

Provincial Grand Lodge of Devon and Cornwall . " We trust that our Devonshire and Cornwall brethren will excuse our honest and

fraternal criticism , while it is with no expression of mere lip-service that we say to-chiy , echoing response of our great brotherhood " God bless our Brother , the Prince of Wales !"

Other Attacks Upon Freemasonry.

OTHER ATTACKS UPON FREEMASONRY .

T . he Roman Catholic body is not the only religious bod y in this country which , strange to say , is hostile to Freemasonry . There are some members in the Church of England , just as there

are some members of the Presbyterian Kirk of Scotland , who think it well and becoming to asper . se the motives and impugn the constitution

of our Order . But in England , as a general rule , despite an occasional outburst of some one whose zeal for his own church exceeds his dis *