Some Continental Lodge Jewels .

obverse Laszlo Kiralv on horseback , and on the reverse clasped bands , the name , etc ., in Hungarian . No . 3 is the jewel of Lodge Galilei , founded at Budapest in 1 S 71 . It consists of a double triangle of silver and blue enamel . The erect triangle having the name and date around

a sun and globe , beneath which is the famous muttered retort of the great astronomer after bis enforced recantation of his theories before the Inquisitors , " E pur si inuove . " It is worn from a small crimson and blue bow . No . 4 is a very handsome jewel in gold , silver , and blue

enamel , of Lodge Concordia , at Neudorft , founded 1883 , and bears three live-pointed stars on a gold bar , over the sun , moon , and eight small stars , with the name of the lodge on the nine points of the jewel .

No * . I , 2 , 5 iinilll , IIUXOAIUAX—Nos . 11 , 12 unci II , SWISS—No . IN , l'lllvXCHNo . lit , HUSSIAN—Xo . -21 , UEltMAX . No . 5 is the jewel of Lodge Zukunft" ( "The Future , " ) founded at Pressburg in 1874 , by the former St . John ' s Grand Lodge . It is triangular and of gold , with blue enamel , and

the design on the obverse represents a veiled figure , seated on sphinx , behind which is the rising sun . On the reverse are the square , compasses , and acacia leaves , with " Gegriindet 1874 , " and the name of the owner . No . G is a more recent design of Lodge Minerva at

Budapest , founded March 15 th , 1904 . It is a star of seven irradiated jioints , on the obverse of which is a figure of Minerva , with the sun , moon , and stars , and various Masonic emblems , surrounded by the words Sapientia . - . Venustas . - . Robur ( wisdom , beauty , strength ) . 'On the reverse is an irradiated volume , on which are the square , compass , and G , and around the name and date of . the lodge .

These are a fair sample of Hungarian jewels , and the interest of many of them is increased , from the fact that they are struck from dies and are therefore " medals . " Danish jewels are very simple , as the following four specimens showbut Freemasonry there is such a matter ol

, real importance , both socially and intrinsically , that elaborate adornments are uncalled for : — No . 7 is the jewel of the Lodge Northern Star at Copenhagen . It consists of a silver Maltese cross , on which is a shield charged with wavy lines of blue and silver

( presumably the sea ) , and a six-pointed star . On the top arm of the cross is a crown , to which is attached a ribbon of red and white stripes .

No 8 . I , 2 . . - > mid r ,, HUXCAItlAX- Xo « . II , 12 , and 11 , SWISS—Xo . is , FUEXCll — Xi > . 1 * , lUTSSIAN—X II . 21 . ( SKlt > IAX . No . 8 is the jewel of Lodge Christian at Copenhagen , and is a crowned and irradiated triangle , hearing the letter C on a ground of red enamel . The ribbon is red and white in equal

parts . No . 9 is an irradiated star of seven points , with Z in the centre , and a red ribbon with narrow white stripes near the edges . This is the jewel of Lodge Zorohabel . No . 10 is somewhat similar , with the addition of a crowned anchor and the letters " Z and F" on blue enamel , and is the

jewel of the United Lodge of Zorohabel and Frederick of the Crowned Hope at Copenhagen . The Lodge Zorohabel was the second lodge founded in Denmark in 1744 , and received a warrant from England in 1745 . In 1767 it united with the first lodge as Zorohabel of the North Star . Frederick of the Crowned Hope was