"Live And Let Live."

"LIVE AND LET LIVE . "

# NCE upon a time some great man , —no matter who , —Avas waited upon by an indigent philosopher , anxious to secure his patronage . The great man refused , and the philosopher , as a last appeal , urged : — " Sir , I must live ; " to Avhich the grandee replied , — " Sir , I don't see any necessity for that . "

Tradition also adds that the philosopher then heat a hasty retreat , wondering what sort of philosophy that could he Avhich ignored , the right to " Live and Let LiA e . " Within the last fortnight Ave have been made practically acquainted Avith the same species of philosophy , and have determined to place the matter before our friendssubscribersand readersnot as a

, , , plea ad misericord iam , hut because it is probable they may hear , from other sources , a statement that may affect us for a time , until we - ; an live it down , and therefore Ave prefer telling the talc ourselves . Originally , wo had intended never to have alluded , in any Avay , to The Freemasons Atagazine , hut as it has been forced upon us ,

wc feel that AVO can do nothing less than give its proprietor the the notice he seeks . In cur innocence AVC had believed that as "The world is so wide that there ' s room for us all /'

so our MASONIC PJIESS Avould ho entitled to Avork on in its own course unmolested , but The Freemasons Magazine thinks different , and will neither "live" nor "let live "—if it can help it . We like to take the hull by the horns , or , in other Avords . to battle with a difficulty rather than be overcome without a struggle . We know it is a hold stroke to play , —more especially in a first

number , —and confess that we are placed in an aAvkward position , hut having nothing to conceal , and believing Ave have been badly treated , Ave are determined to give The Freemasons Magazine a chance , ' —which it would deny us , — " to live and let live . " For some years AVC were connected Avith The Freemasons Magazine , and continued so until last June , when the Editor , Brother Henry

George Warren , retired from it , and AVC , being engaged by him , had no option of remaining . How that periodical fell into its present proprietor ' s hands is the grievance of another , and therefore AVC have no right to enter upon that matter further than to say it Avas chiefly transferred through our agency , and it has been a lesson , a caution , and a source of regret to us , ever since , that Ave assisted in the matter .

The proprietor , Brother William Smith , civil engineer , patent agent , periodical proprietor , publisher , general printer , P . M ., P . Z ., P . E . C ., P . M . W . S ., and a member of the 31 ° , undertook , in an evil hour for us , to print our little book '• 'The History and Articles of Masonry . " His printing office , "The Scientific Press , " coolly took eighteen months to print this book of one hundred and eighty " pages .

Subscribers died and others repudiated their orders during such a lapse of time . We continually pressed for an account of the charge , Avhilst