Notes On Literature, Science And Art.

given it . Of those where the ancient name is retained , marked by being given in inverted commas , I will be glad of any assistance to fix their exact locality ; but I must mention that Mr . Kenrick conj ectured " Burnebam" to be Burniston ; "Calvertune , " to be CaAvton near Gilling ;

" Jernewic , " to be Gervic near Skelton in the North Riding ; " Kirdintane , " to be Kirklington near Sinderby ; and "Lindebi , " to be Lindrick near Ripon ; but with " Baggaflete , " he seems to have been fairly baffled . The whole article is full

of information on the Templars , and Avritten with great fairness . " The Templars , " says he , " had not even the consolation of dying with arms in their hands ; they were the victims of treachery and chicane . " Andhaving shown the gross

, cruelty ancl injustice of confessions made under torture , aud the rapacity of their persecutors , he remarks : " The proceedings against the Templars Avere so contrary

to all principles of jurisprudence , that in a purely judicial point of view the evidence against them is Avorthless . As a question of historical probability , their partial guilt or entire innocence is not so easily settled . " Mr . Kenrick Avas interred in the York Cemetery on Saturday , May 12 th ,

and besides great numbers of the religious body with Avhich he had been through life connected , Canon Raine and many members of the York Institute Avere present ; but perhaps the most touching part of the whole ceremony of paying the last token

of respect to a Avorthy man ancl scholar , Avas when the pupils from the Wilbeiforce School for the Blind , of Avhich he Avas vice-president , dropped their floral offerings on his coffin . Though kindly invited by the aged antiquary to pay him a visit in

the event of my again going to York , I had not the pleasure of his personal acquaintance , but his kind correspondence I found to be useful to a humbler labourer

in that great field of usefulness Avhere there is room alike for the man of one talent and the man of ten . I ought perhaps to mention that , besides contributing to the publications of his oAvn denomination , he Avas a contributor to the Edinburgh Review , to

the Philosophical Magazine , and to the Cambridge Philological Museum , then edited by the late Bishop Thirlwall . Mr . Kenrick ( for though he bore the title of

Reverend , he never officiated as a minister ) is one more proof that study is not injurious to longevity . " It is America , " remarked a writer in the Atlantic Monthly , a few years ago , "that we may reasonably look to for a new

type in architecture—the type that will be generated by the necessity of accomodating immense masses of people under one enclosure for purposes of political discussion , of reli gious service , of legislative debate , or of the administration of justice—a type

more majestic than that of the Roman Basilica , and capable of the highest embellishment by sculpture and painting . " I sincerely hope the performance may be equal to the promise . England has certainly seen a wonderful revival in her

architecture of late years , but still we seem only capable at best of imitating the Ancients , and that too often at a great distance . Though I have never had the least desire to see our noble Craft return

from its fine speculative Masonry to that of a mere trade guild , I have long felt that Ave , of all men , ought not merely to cultivate all the liberal arts and sciences that lay Avitbin the compass of our cable-tow , but a knoAvledge ancl love of architecture in particular : else the valued ceremony

of laying the foundation-stones of public buildings with Masonic honours is a privilege to' Avhich we are no more entitled than our excellent sister organizations , the various Orders of Oddfello \ A's , Foresters , Druids , Free Gardiners , Ancient

Shepherds , and such-like . Had the Craft been true to its history and traditions , the ugly ecclesiastical edifices , for instance , AVOUICI never have risen under Anne and the Georges , when , " to prevent starving , " as George Alexander Stevens humourousl

y expresses it , in his Lecture on Heads , " Architecture hired herself as a bricklayer ' s labourer . " Mnny of our recentlyerected Masonic Halls are positively disgraceful to the tastes of the brethren of the Lodges that erected them , being

eclipsed in beauty of design by the adjoining schools and meeting-houses . Every Freemason ought to feel with the German critic , Frederick von Schlegel : " To me the sight of a splendid edifice or a lovel y country is an ever-springing source of pleasure : I feel its grandeur more , and love its beauty better , the more frequently I behold it ; ancl , in the same manner , the