Eminent Masons At Home.

others whose advice he seeks . The suggestions he makes over these sketches are terse and to the point , but he surrenders his opinions to the knowledge of the designer the moment that master of archaeological costume expresses it , and that is a trait of character only clever men " possess . Augustus Flarris was initiated into Freemasonry fourteen years

ago , in the St . Clair Lodge at Edinburgh . His first connection with the English Craft was in London , where he formed the Maybtiry Lodge ( 9 69 ) . In 18 S 5 he joined his friend , Bro . Broadley , in founding the Drury-lane Lodge ( 2 , 127 ) , a Lodge which is destined to become one of the first on the roll of the English Grand Lodges *

and was its first Senior Warden . In the following year he occupied the position of Worshipful Master , and has

studiously supported the chair ever since . He is M . E . Z . of the Royal Naval Chapter ( 59 ); E . P . of the Bard of Avon and

Drury-lane Preceptory , and Grand Sword Bearer in the Great Priory of Knights Templar ; member of the Royal Order

of Scotland ; of the Old Kent Lodge of Mark Masters , and of the Order of Royal and Select Masters ; P . M . of the Stewart Chapter of the Allied Masonic

Degrees , and P . J . G . W . of the Grand Lodge of that Order . He is also a Life Governor of the three Charities , and a generous benefactor to

the pupils of the Masonic Schools . Augustus Harris was proposed by Bro . Sheriff Harris , P . M ., at the last meeting of Grand Lodge , for the position of Grand

Treasurer for the year 1 S 90-91 , and his nomination was accepted by Grand Lodge without opposition , so that in March

next he will be installed into that office on St . George ' s Day . With his public career the world is well acquainted . No man has

drawn such results from the walls of " Old Drury " as he . In a very large measure he was the pioneer of that extreme skill in the art of stage management that has quite revolutionised the modern stage , and be it pantomime , or melodrama , or even Italian Opera , the lavishness with which he mounts his pieces has surpassed anything that was ever done before . His cleverness determines that

only the best artists shall represent his management , and if he has not always secured the services of the most successful dramatists , his productions have invariably met with the approbation and support of the public . He is the lessee of Drury Lane and Covent Garden Theatres , the Tyne Theatre at Newcastle , and a joint

MR . AUGUSTUS HENRY GLOSSOP HARRIS .

manager of the Carl Rosa Opera Company . He was one of the original Syndicate which changed the fortuned of the Empire , but he has recently withdrawn from that enterprise With all the claims Masonry and his theatrical ventures make upon bis time , he is a member of no less than four City Companies ,

and when the County Council was inaugurated two years ago , Augustus Harris was retur ted for the Strand Division of the Metropolis . You well remember the meeting in the scene-painting room in Vinegar Yard . On the platform was exposed to view a sedate representative of every shade of political opinion . There was Edmund Yates , in a pepper-and-salt morning costume , dividing the rabid Radicals from the

Tories , like the centreman of a nigger troupe , with a typical specimen of a Home-ruler at one end of the platform , and

a downright unadulterated Conservative at the other . It was a beautiful sight to sec the lion lying down with the lamb ,

and the guiding crook of the astutest of chairmen leading his sheep to market . Mr . Harris has never done anything cleverer since his

election , and he has never dishonored the promises to his constituents . As you sit with him this busy morning , in his spacious

diningroom , given over , as far as " art" is concerned , to a very large portrait of his wife and daughter , and a river

scene by Wyllie , hanging over the sideboard , you form some idea of the enormous aptitude for business Augustus Harris must possess .

But his only daughter , little Florence , is not yet old enough to form ideas of much importance ; her morning kiss is taken with

a large amount of indifference as to whether her presence at such an hour is of any hindrance to her father . But this is a

privileged morning after all , for a journey to Paris is booked for the latter part of the day , and Florence must , of course , help to pack her father ' s portmanteau , and to wonder why Mr Wingneld's " pretty pictures" are not presented to her instead of to Mr . Latham . A few moments of hurry and bustle , a permission fiom

" papa " that little Florence—how one ' s mind goes back to the seashore at Yarmouth , and remembers Mr . Dombey with his grandchildren—may go to see " The Royal Oak" that afternoon ; and the carriage is waiting to take its owner once more to the great playhouse in Catherine-street . If the carriage holds four you will be invited to enter , and if you complete the journey and steal