Masons Of The Year.

sacrifice of Hindus at Benares , to the worship in the snake temples outside the city . At Ceylon the Government launch was placed under his orders , and he was a fellow-traveller with the unfortunate Arabi Pasha . A lengthened sketch of Mr Edward Terry at Priory Lodge appeared in No . 4 , Vol . I ., of the MASONIC REVIEW .

SIR HENRY ISAACS . SIR HENRY ISAACS , whose Mayoralty of London terminated on the 9 th of last month , created a precedent insomuch as the meetings of the Drury Lane Lodge , of which he is the immediate Past Masterwereduring his Mastershipheld in

, , , the saloon of the Mansion House . Sir Henry has never aspired to any very exalted position in the Craft , but perhaps a finer exponent of the teachings and th < _ benefits of Freemasonry does not exist . He was initiated in 1853 in the Lodge of Israel ( 247 ) , and passed the chair three years later

( in 1 S 56 ) , during which he was Lecture Master of the Prosperity Lodge of Instruction , for fulfilling which post he was presented with a service of silver plate by its members ; and founded the Benevolent Fund of his Mother Lodge , for which , £ r , ooo was very quickly collected . In the same yearalsohe served a

steward-, , ship of the Boys' and Girls' Institutions , and was invested with the collar of Prov . Grand Organist of Hertfordshire . In 1857 he initiated his father into the mysteries of the Craft , and installed his brother , Mr . J . M . Isaacs , as his successor in the chair of the

Israel Lodge . From the Lodge of Tranquillity he was presented with a silver claret-jug and salver in recognition of his services to the Lodge . In the same year he presided at the twenty-eighth annual festival of the Emulation Lodge of Instruction , and filled the chair of numerous festivals connected with the charitable funds of private Lodges . From thenfor a

, period of thirty years , he progressed soundly but slowly through his various Masonic obligations until he connected himself with the Drury Lane Lodge , into the chair of which he was installed at the Mansion House by Bro . J . C . Parkinson . Of anecdotes and charming recollections Sir Henry is fulland he remembers

, being lured from his bed by some rollicking young Masons to deliver the fifteen sections without fifteen mistakes , to decide a wager that had been made upon the event . Sir Henry is a man of but medium height and build , and does not look his age within ten years of it . He was born in the City , has lived in the

City , and will probably die in it , for there is no firmer commercial undertaking at the present moment than that of Messrs . M . Isaacs and Sons , of whose establishments at Hull , Valencia , and London he is the head . In 1862 he was elected to the

Court of Common Council as representative of the Ward of Aldgate , and occupied the chairs of the Coal , Corn , and Finance , the City Lands and Markets Committees in succession . He laid the stone of the Leadenhall Market , and was Chairman of the Grand Markets Committee whilst the Fruit Market in the Farringdon Road was being built . In 1 S 83 he was advanced

by election lo the position of Alderman of the Ward of Portsoken , and immediately became famous on the bench for his exemplary sentences upon persons brought before him for cruelty to animals . He served the post of Sheriff in 1886-7 , her Majesty ' s Jubilee year , and was knighted at the termination of

his office . Sir Henry Isaacs , amongst oilier important commercial positions , is the Chairman of the Hansard Publishing Union , the biggest of those Unions which Mr . Horatio Botlomley has parented .

HERR MEYER LUTZ . HERR MEYER LUTZ , whose sympathetic melodies have charmed thousands of playgoers and seaside visitors , was initiated in the Asaph Lodge sixteen years ago , and became its Worshipful Master in 1881 . He is an original member of the Drury Lane Lodge , a Royal Arch Mason of the Asaph Chapter ,

a member of the Orpheus Chapter , Rose Croix , and was appointed Grand Organist of Grand Lodge at the Communication in March of the present year . Meyer Lutz has been the musical chief of the Gaiety Theatre for many years , and , in fact , he may be said to have revolutionised music of the burlesque school in its latest modernising phase . His principal melodies

arc noted for their sympathetic and dreamy sensitiveness , and perhaps he has never done anything finer in pure composition than the series of songs he composed for Miss Nellie Farren . Of all modern composers Herr Lutz is perhaps the most unassuming ; and his style , had it been so fostered , would have given him high rank among the composers of sacred music of the day .

MR . JAMES TERRY . MR . JAMES TERRY , the Secretary of the Royal Masonic Benevolent Institution , was initiated into Freemasonry in the United Strength Lodge ( 22 S ) in February , i 860 , and such was the progress he made in the Craft , as well as in the estimation

of his brother members , that he was chosen Worshipful Master of the Lodge in 1863 . In 1 S 73 he was again elected to the same honourable office , and is now , and for some years past has been , its Treasurer . His connection with other Lodges has been equally prominent . In 1 S 67 he helped to found the Urban

Lodge ( 1196 ) , and , for the first seven years of its existence , discharged the duties of Secretary . In 1869 he was a founder and first W . Master of the Burdett Coutts Lodge ( 127 S ) , and for twelve years held the office of Treasurer . Two years later he joined the Highgate Lodge ( 1366 ) in the same capacity of

founder , was installed its first W . Master , and has been Treasurer from the time of its foundation . He is also a joining member of the King Harold Lodge ( 1327 ) , Waltham ; a founder of the Cranboume Lodge ( 1580 ) in 1875 , and the Clerkenwell Lodge ( 1964 ) in 18 S 2 , of both of which lodges he

has been Secretary from the dates of their establishment ; also a joining member of the Gresham Lodge ( 869 ) , Cheshunt , since 1 S 69 , and the Fidelity Lodge ( 445 ) , Towcester , since 1880 . His services to Freemasonry in the Province of Hertfordshire were first recognised in 1869 , when he was invested Prov . G . S . B . In 1 S 73 he was appointed Prov . G . D . of C , and five years later was promoted to the chair of Prov . G . J . Warden , while in 18 S 0

he was invested as G . S . Warden of the Province of Northants and Hunts . Almost equally conspicuous have been his services in connection with the Royal Arch , to which he was exalted in the Rose of Denmark Chapter ( 975 ) , in March , 1865 , being installed First Principal in 186 S . In 1867 he helped to found the Sincerity Chapter ( 174 ) , and became M . E . Z .

in 1869 . He was a founder and first M . E . Z . of the United Strength Chapter in 1 S 77 , and is at the present time its Treasurer ; a founder , first M . E . Z . in 1880 , and now the Treasurer of the Highgate Chapter ; a founder and first Scribe E . of the Islington Chapter ( 1471 ) , in 1878 , and M . E . Z .

last year . In the way of provincial honours he was appointed Prov . G . D . of C . Herts in 1875 , and m l 8 *> 3 Prov . G . J . He was advanced to the Mark Degree in Lodge 22 in 1866 , and was a founder and first J . W . of the Henniker Lodge , ( 315 ) , in 1 S 83 . He was installed a K . T . in the Stuart Encampment ,

Watford , in 1876 , and was E . C . in 1883 . He is also a Knight of Malta , and Past M . P . S . and K . G . C . of the Red Cross of Rome and Constantine , as well as a member of the Allied Degrees . In June , 1 S 64 , he was appointed Collector , and in December , 1872 , Secretary of the Royal Masonic Benevolent

Institution . The latest honour James Terry boasts of is the recent consecration of a Lodge bearing his name , and of which he is the W . M . A shrewd and careful man in all commercial matters , James Terry will be remembered for the pcculiar assurance with which he indulges in after-Lodge oratory , and the elaborate scroll he interlaces with his signature .