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Notes On Literature, Science, And Art.

The New Year pieces breathe a healthy atmosp here ; and the remark of our author may be made on any New Year ' s Day : — « For now another year has faded from the rolls of Time ; Another year is buried in the grave of

ages ! Another year is number'd with the great old dead , And we are standing on the threshold of

anew one , A young , fresh year , with all its hidden future . " And when called upon to " part in pain from some we cherish , " as most of us have been forced to do , all of us who cherish

the comfortable doctrine of the immortality of the soul , will" trust to meet them once again In that bright land , where Time has ceased to be , And where Eternity has usher'd in The radiant hours of joy , and love , and rest . "

And every true Freemason will remember to do his duty to his fellow-men when he has it in his power : — " For life has still some work for us , Some duties yet to do , Some hearts to soothe , some hopes to cheer

Some labours kind and true ; Not idle , careless loiterers now , — Ours is the ' better part , ' To help on those who falter here , With true and loving heart . *****

So let the message of to-day Fall on our listening ears ; Let ' s look in loving heart to God 'Mid earthly doubts and fears ; -And whether long , or whether short , Life keeps for us its span , Let ' s seek in this all-glad New Year To help our Brother Man . "

these are true Masonic sentiments , enunciated with the beautiful simplicity of genuine poetry ; and if all who have been initiated into our glorious Craft , taught them by both precept and practice , like our gifted brother , what a different world this would soon become ! Passing over a few choice little poems , with such good English titles as " Never

Forgotten , " " Doubt , " and " Happiness , " we come to " The Picture . " Every reader of our glorious English bards will remember Oowper ' s touching verses on the receipt of his mother ' s picture out of Norfolk j aud Campbell's classic " Stanzas to

Painting , " and I am very sorry that want of sjiace will only allow me to quote one-third of our author ' s companion poem , for such it may be considered , to the above : —

" For that jucture in its truthfulness , As it hangs up there above , Tells of a heart all simple , Yet full of tender love ; And in its sacred sympathies , And in its mystic power , That picture throws a soft ' ning ray On every passing hour .

* * * * * Oh ! wondrous spell of painting ; Oh ! great and gracious art , Which oft , to us who linger here , Can'st the happiness impart Of feeling aud believing That those we love are near , — That the truest and the dearest

Are ever with us here . I could like to give many more extracts of beautiful passages that have pleased me . The quotations now given are all from the Slst to the 124 th pages , and the neatly jn-inted volume consists of 250

pages , all of which I have read with great pleasure— not merely waded through , as one has to do with some books . Our author ' s great strength is evidentl y in the pure sentiments and genuine pathos of his own soul . Many of the poems

must be read entire to be ajijireciated , as , to borrow an expression of Dr . Johnson ' s , " he that tries to recommend him by select quotations will succeed like the pedant in Hierocles , who , when he offered his house to salecarried a brick in his pocket as a

, specimen . " Nevertheless , I hope the " select quotations " I have given from the book under notice may induce some of my readers to possess themselves of the whole volume .

There are various places in England named Burton , the word being a contraction of " borough-town . " Thus we have the township of that name in Tarvin parish , near Tarporley , in Cheshire ; the

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Monthly Masonic Summary. Article 3
THE DAFFODIL. Article 3
THE EARLY INDICIAE OF FREEMASONRY. Article 4
AN EARLY MASONIC BOOK. Article 5
SONNET. Article 9
MAY MASON. Article 9
SOCIAL PROBLEMS AND THEIR PEACEFUL SOLUTION. Article 14
SONNET. Article 19
AN OLD, OLD STORY. Article 19
THE WOMEN OF OUR TIME. Article 21
MASONIC AMATEUR PERFORMANCES AT PLYMOUTH. Article 23
NOTES ON THE OLD MINUTES OF BRITISH UNION LODGE, IPSWICH. Article 26
AMERICAN KNIGHTS TEMPLARS Article 27
ZOROASTRIANISM AND FREEMASONRY. Article 30
THE FALLING SNOW. Article 33
FAIRY TALES UTILISED FOR THE NEW GENERATION. Article 33
THE ORIGIN AND REFERENCES OF THE HERMESIAN SPURIOUS FREEMASONRY. Article 34
Our Archaological Corner. Article 37
MASONIC ARCHAEOLOGICAL NOTES AND QUERIES. Article 39
SERMON Article 41
REVIEW. Article 43
SOMEHOW OR OTHER. Article 45
NOTES ON LITERATURE, SCIENCE, AND ART. Article 45
HYMN. Article 50
Untitled Article 51
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Notes On Literature, Science, And Art.

The New Year pieces breathe a healthy atmosp here ; and the remark of our author may be made on any New Year ' s Day : — « For now another year has faded from the rolls of Time ; Another year is buried in the grave of

ages ! Another year is number'd with the great old dead , And we are standing on the threshold of

anew one , A young , fresh year , with all its hidden future . " And when called upon to " part in pain from some we cherish , " as most of us have been forced to do , all of us who cherish

the comfortable doctrine of the immortality of the soul , will" trust to meet them once again In that bright land , where Time has ceased to be , And where Eternity has usher'd in The radiant hours of joy , and love , and rest . "

And every true Freemason will remember to do his duty to his fellow-men when he has it in his power : — " For life has still some work for us , Some duties yet to do , Some hearts to soothe , some hopes to cheer

Some labours kind and true ; Not idle , careless loiterers now , — Ours is the ' better part , ' To help on those who falter here , With true and loving heart . *****

So let the message of to-day Fall on our listening ears ; Let ' s look in loving heart to God 'Mid earthly doubts and fears ; -And whether long , or whether short , Life keeps for us its span , Let ' s seek in this all-glad New Year To help our Brother Man . "

these are true Masonic sentiments , enunciated with the beautiful simplicity of genuine poetry ; and if all who have been initiated into our glorious Craft , taught them by both precept and practice , like our gifted brother , what a different world this would soon become ! Passing over a few choice little poems , with such good English titles as " Never

Forgotten , " " Doubt , " and " Happiness , " we come to " The Picture . " Every reader of our glorious English bards will remember Oowper ' s touching verses on the receipt of his mother ' s picture out of Norfolk j aud Campbell's classic " Stanzas to

Painting , " and I am very sorry that want of sjiace will only allow me to quote one-third of our author ' s companion poem , for such it may be considered , to the above : —

" For that jucture in its truthfulness , As it hangs up there above , Tells of a heart all simple , Yet full of tender love ; And in its sacred sympathies , And in its mystic power , That picture throws a soft ' ning ray On every passing hour .

* * * * * Oh ! wondrous spell of painting ; Oh ! great and gracious art , Which oft , to us who linger here , Can'st the happiness impart Of feeling aud believing That those we love are near , — That the truest and the dearest

Are ever with us here . I could like to give many more extracts of beautiful passages that have pleased me . The quotations now given are all from the Slst to the 124 th pages , and the neatly jn-inted volume consists of 250

pages , all of which I have read with great pleasure— not merely waded through , as one has to do with some books . Our author ' s great strength is evidentl y in the pure sentiments and genuine pathos of his own soul . Many of the poems

must be read entire to be ajijireciated , as , to borrow an expression of Dr . Johnson ' s , " he that tries to recommend him by select quotations will succeed like the pedant in Hierocles , who , when he offered his house to salecarried a brick in his pocket as a

, specimen . " Nevertheless , I hope the " select quotations " I have given from the book under notice may induce some of my readers to possess themselves of the whole volume .

There are various places in England named Burton , the word being a contraction of " borough-town . " Thus we have the township of that name in Tarvin parish , near Tarporley , in Cheshire ; the

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