Notes On Literature, Science And Art.

slone-upon-HuIl since the year 1640 . " The number of votes obtained by each candidate , their colours , the songs and squibs produced , all are to be given , and must be interesting to the students of English history generally j but some

hitherto unpublished letters of the incorruptible patriot , Andrew Marvel , which are to be given in the volume , will be most anxiously looked for . Although most of the biographers of the poetpolitician are in errorby stating him to

, be a native of Hull , yet , as our American cousins would say , he was " reared " there , and his representation of the borough as the last paid Member of Parliament , nntil the miners elected Burt and Macdonald , is a matter of history Avhich ought to be

knoAvn to every schoolboy . But has Hull had no celebrities who have never aspired to sit in Parliament ? The title of Mr . Gunnell ' s book seems too general to be confined to mere candidates , successful or otherwisefor seats in Parliament .

, The Archceologist remarks : — "All numismatists are aAvare of the difficulty Avhich exists in distinguishing the coins of the three Edwards , OAving to the

absence of any numeral on them to denote the particular monarch by which they Avere struck . The generally received opinion is , that those Avith EDAV . belong to Edward I . with EDAVAR and EDAVAKD to EdAvard II . ; and with EDAVARDUS in full to Edward III . "

Lord William Pitt Lennox relates the following anecdote of the late Canon Barham , author of the Avell known Ingoldsby Legends . Cannon , Theodore Hook , and others , including his lordship , had been dining with Barham , and the evening

passed off deli g htfully . At a late hour , or rather at an early hour in the morning , their host showed some signs of Aveariness , and being called out of the room , his health was proposed and drunk with the usual honours . On his return , Hook said ,

" We have had the p leasure of drinking your health in your absence . — " " And , " replied Barham , " It will g ive me great pleasure to drink yours in your absence . " After this broad but proper hint , they rose to take their departure . — " You know everything , " said Cannon ; " what ' s going oaT '— " I am , " responded Hook , " suiting the action to the word , " but not before he

had invited the whole party to dme with him on the following Monday . Fndziejama , who was one of the Japanese commissioners to the Vienna Exhibition of 1872 , and who stayed in that city until he had thoroughly learnt the art and

mystery of casting type and stereotyping , has succeeding in introducing that elevating branch of industry into Japan . Such a benefactor of his country deserves the highest honour , and the annals of civilization should hand his name down to posterity for all time , Well did the Sheffield bard , honest Ebenezer Elliott , sing of our venerable first English printer : —

" Lord ! taught by Thee , when Caxton bade His silent words for ever speak , A grave for tyrants then Avas made , Then crack'd the chain Avhich yet shall break .

For bread , for bread , the all-scorn d man , With study worn , his press prepared ; And knew not , Lord , Thy wond'rous plan , Nor what be did , nor what he dared . When first the mig ht of deathless thought Impress'd his all-instructing page ,

Unconscious giant 1 how he smote The fraud and force of many an age ! Pale wax'd the harlot , fear'd of thrones , And they who bought her harlotry ; He shook the throned on dead men ' s bones , He shakes all evil yet to be !

The power he grasp'd let none disdain ; It conquer'd once , and conquers still ; By fraud and force assail'd in vain , It conquer'd erst , and ever will . " And this naturally suggests to my mind to askhoAV many of our Lodges have a

, Library of Masonic works , or of general standard Literature 1 How many Masons take in regularly a Masonic publication 1 or have one single good Masonic work on their bookshelves' ? We , who over our cups , in after dinner-speeches , prate loudly

of Masonry being "the science of sciences , because it includes all others ; " we , who profess ahvays to be in search of " more light ; " we who have privileges granted us by the State , on account of the hi gh tendency of our venerable Craft , which are strictly denied to our felloAA ' -citizens ; Ave , Avho therefore ought to lead the van in ah