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Preface.
PREFACE .
We conclude with this number the Second Volume of the MASONIC MAGAZINE . When , two years ago , we sought to float our little bark on the rough sea of literary adventure , it was amid the doubts of some and the
lukewarm indifference of others . Yet here it is , after two years of existence , shewing , we hope , unmistakeable signs of vitality and improvement .
And while we have to confess that in Great Britain , as in the United States , and , indeed , -wherever the Anglo-Saxon race is spread or spreading , Masonic Literature has a hard struggle for the very " breath of life , " yet the MASONIC MAGAZINE has no reason to complain of want of
friendly reception and of persevering patronage . It may , indeed , be a question of some interest to discuss why , in a " Craft" like ours , so respectable , so intelligent , and so educated , Masonic Literature has so slender a " status . " But we will not fill up the pages of a Preface with the prosaic utterances of , perhaps , an unprofitable discussion .
Be the reason what it may , the fact is a fact very clear and very certain , and one deeply to be regretted for the future welfare of our Order . Thanks to our good publisher , the MASONIC MAGAZINE has sailed on with a good " trade wind , " and amid smooth water ; and we have also
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
Preface.
PREFACE .
We conclude with this number the Second Volume of the MASONIC MAGAZINE . When , two years ago , we sought to float our little bark on the rough sea of literary adventure , it was amid the doubts of some and the
lukewarm indifference of others . Yet here it is , after two years of existence , shewing , we hope , unmistakeable signs of vitality and improvement .
And while we have to confess that in Great Britain , as in the United States , and , indeed , -wherever the Anglo-Saxon race is spread or spreading , Masonic Literature has a hard struggle for the very " breath of life , " yet the MASONIC MAGAZINE has no reason to complain of want of
friendly reception and of persevering patronage . It may , indeed , be a question of some interest to discuss why , in a " Craft" like ours , so respectable , so intelligent , and so educated , Masonic Literature has so slender a " status . " But we will not fill up the pages of a Preface with the prosaic utterances of , perhaps , an unprofitable discussion .
Be the reason what it may , the fact is a fact very clear and very certain , and one deeply to be regretted for the future welfare of our Order . Thanks to our good publisher , the MASONIC MAGAZINE has sailed on with a good " trade wind , " and amid smooth water ; and we have also