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Notes On Literature, Science, And Art.

NOTES ON LITERATURE , SCIENCE , AND ART .

BY BBO . GEORGE MABKHAM TWEDDELL . Author of " Shakspere , Ids Times and Contemporaries , " " The Bards and Authors of Cleveland and South Durham" " The People ' s History of Cleveland and its Vicinage" " The Visitor s Handbook to liedcarCoathamand Saliburn b

, , y the Sea" " The History of the Stockton and Darlington JRailioay" etc ., etc . HPHEY who , like myself , were fortunate enough to witness that mighty triumph of - " - modern engineering skill in placidly placing the hoary monument of antiquity , known as Cleopatra ' s Needle , on its proper basis , so that we of this nineteenth century

may gaze upon the same hieroglyphic-covered obelisk , which Moses often passed at Heliopolis , whither it had been floated down the Nile from its native Syene quarries , would do well to look carefully at the old world bas-reliefs now on the walls of outnoble British Museum , showing the poor harnessed slaves of the by-gone removing a colossal bull , whilst their brutal taskmasters are urging them to strain every nerve to accomplish their object by muscular strength alone . Silently as the pointer of some

immense clock , without even its quiet ticking , did we see this nearly two hundred tons weight of stone changed from its horizontal position to the perpendicular . To me there was a sublime poetry in that glorious achievement . The oldest handiwork of our ancient operative brethren , I feel proud that it is to distinguished brothers of the Craft that we owe both the princely munificence of the cost , and the wonderful skill of removing it from its fallen place in the sands of Egypt to the busy hanks of the Thames

, where the honoured names of our Brothers , Erasmus Wilson and Dixon , will henceforth and for ever be indelibly associated with the truly Masonic achievement . Would that the obelisk could indite for us a faithful epitome of the history of its own times ! AVhat a book that wotdd he !

An English lady in Italy , the daughter of a dignitary of the Church , and wife of a clergyman , communicates the following as the Italian method of curing the whoopingcough , and states that she has tried it with marked success on one of her children , who was suffering severely from that distressing complaint : ¦— " One large tablespoonful of honey to half a pint of water , beat up together thoroughly , and add a ftdl teaspoonM of purified nitre in powder ; half to be taken in the morning , and half at night , and to

be continued while necessary . " In the year 1584 , when Shakspere , although married and a father , was only in his twenty-first year ; when A irginia was first discovered , and Walter Raleigh ( who was not with his expedition ) , was knighted ; when Reginald Scott was attacking the foolish belief in witchcraft ; "the judicious Hooker" was entering upon his Buckinghamshire rectory ; and Seldon , Pym , Massinger , Phineas Fletcher , and others of note , were just making their first appearance on the great stage

of life—Thoinas Ohaloner the younger ( who was kni ghted seven years afterwards ) , produced A Shorte Discourse of the most rare and excellent vertue of Nitre , now a very scarce work , in which he gives directions for its use , inwardly and outwardly , in all manner of diseases ; and , though the whooping-cough does not appear to be there particularized , I find seven different recipes for affections of the lungs and windpipe , some of which it would be worth the while of modern medical men to testand report

, upon ; for if they were really efficacious three centuries ago , I see no reason why they should not be so at the present time . That Sir Thomas Chaloner the younger was a man of some scientific knowledge ( though he tells us that he derived his knowledge of the virtues of nitre from his still more illustrious father , the poet , warrior , and statesman ) , is proved by the fact that he first began the manufacture of alum from the lias formation of the Cleveland Hills ; which , as it interfered with the pope ' s monopoly , is

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Monthly Masonic Summary. Article 1
A CORRECT LIST OF THE REGULAR LODGES UNDER THE CONSTITUTION OF ENGLAND, ALPHABETICALLY ARRANGED. IN 1777. Article 2
ADDRESS ON THE DEATH OF MOZART. Article 7
THE SONG OF SONGS. Article 8
OLD WINTER IS COMING. Article 9
NOTES ON LITERATURE, SCIENCE, AND ART. Article 10
THE ANGLO-SAXON LANGUAGE. Article 13
THE OBERAMMERGAU PLAY. Article 15
HAIL, BROTHERS! Article 17
BEATRICE. Article 18
CYPRUS. Article 21
CENTRAL ASIAN RACES. Article 22
THE EARTH'S POPULATION. Article 23
MINUTES OF OLD LODGES IN THE PROVINCE OF PEEBLES AND SELKIRK. Article 25
Untitled Article 26
AM RHEIN. Article 27
OLD LETTERS. Article 28
MILDRED: AN AUTUMN ROMANCE. Article 29
THE EARLY HISTORY AND ANTIQUITIES OF FREEMASONRY.* Article 32
BJORN AND BERA.* Article 34
THE PEASANT COUNTESS. Article 35
NEW MUSIC.* Article 38
FASHIONABLE SLANG. Article 39
SONNETS FROM THE PYRENEES. Article 41
THE CHANGEFUL SEASONS: A WINTER SONG. Article 42
CHARLES THEODORE KORNER. Article 43
ART-JOTTINGS IN ART-STUDIOS. Article 44
AN HERMETIC WORK. Article 46
THE GOLDEN ASS WELL MANAGED, AND MYDAS RESTORED TO REASON. Article 47
THE EPISTLE OF W.C. TO THE CHRISTIAN AND COURTEOUS READER. Article 47
SHALOM ALEHEM. Article 48
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Notes On Literature, Science, And Art.

NOTES ON LITERATURE , SCIENCE , AND ART .

BY BBO . GEORGE MABKHAM TWEDDELL . Author of " Shakspere , Ids Times and Contemporaries , " " The Bards and Authors of Cleveland and South Durham" " The People ' s History of Cleveland and its Vicinage" " The Visitor s Handbook to liedcarCoathamand Saliburn b

, , y the Sea" " The History of the Stockton and Darlington JRailioay" etc ., etc . HPHEY who , like myself , were fortunate enough to witness that mighty triumph of - " - modern engineering skill in placidly placing the hoary monument of antiquity , known as Cleopatra ' s Needle , on its proper basis , so that we of this nineteenth century

may gaze upon the same hieroglyphic-covered obelisk , which Moses often passed at Heliopolis , whither it had been floated down the Nile from its native Syene quarries , would do well to look carefully at the old world bas-reliefs now on the walls of outnoble British Museum , showing the poor harnessed slaves of the by-gone removing a colossal bull , whilst their brutal taskmasters are urging them to strain every nerve to accomplish their object by muscular strength alone . Silently as the pointer of some

immense clock , without even its quiet ticking , did we see this nearly two hundred tons weight of stone changed from its horizontal position to the perpendicular . To me there was a sublime poetry in that glorious achievement . The oldest handiwork of our ancient operative brethren , I feel proud that it is to distinguished brothers of the Craft that we owe both the princely munificence of the cost , and the wonderful skill of removing it from its fallen place in the sands of Egypt to the busy hanks of the Thames

, where the honoured names of our Brothers , Erasmus Wilson and Dixon , will henceforth and for ever be indelibly associated with the truly Masonic achievement . Would that the obelisk could indite for us a faithful epitome of the history of its own times ! AVhat a book that wotdd he !

An English lady in Italy , the daughter of a dignitary of the Church , and wife of a clergyman , communicates the following as the Italian method of curing the whoopingcough , and states that she has tried it with marked success on one of her children , who was suffering severely from that distressing complaint : ¦— " One large tablespoonful of honey to half a pint of water , beat up together thoroughly , and add a ftdl teaspoonM of purified nitre in powder ; half to be taken in the morning , and half at night , and to

be continued while necessary . " In the year 1584 , when Shakspere , although married and a father , was only in his twenty-first year ; when A irginia was first discovered , and Walter Raleigh ( who was not with his expedition ) , was knighted ; when Reginald Scott was attacking the foolish belief in witchcraft ; "the judicious Hooker" was entering upon his Buckinghamshire rectory ; and Seldon , Pym , Massinger , Phineas Fletcher , and others of note , were just making their first appearance on the great stage

of life—Thoinas Ohaloner the younger ( who was kni ghted seven years afterwards ) , produced A Shorte Discourse of the most rare and excellent vertue of Nitre , now a very scarce work , in which he gives directions for its use , inwardly and outwardly , in all manner of diseases ; and , though the whooping-cough does not appear to be there particularized , I find seven different recipes for affections of the lungs and windpipe , some of which it would be worth the while of modern medical men to testand report

, upon ; for if they were really efficacious three centuries ago , I see no reason why they should not be so at the present time . That Sir Thomas Chaloner the younger was a man of some scientific knowledge ( though he tells us that he derived his knowledge of the virtues of nitre from his still more illustrious father , the poet , warrior , and statesman ) , is proved by the fact that he first began the manufacture of alum from the lias formation of the Cleveland Hills ; which , as it interfered with the pope ' s monopoly , is

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