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Notices.
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All communications for the Jlclitor , to ensure insertion in the next week ' s number , should be fbrwaM
not later than Saturday . Advertisers will qM on Monday morning .
Emblematic covers for the first volume of 1858 are now ready , price Is .- -or subscribers may have their volumes bound fo had , price Us . Qd . each . We shall be happy to receive essays or lectures oh Masonic subjects , returning them ( should they not be accepted ) if desired .
TO OOBRESPONDENTS , § £ ' The " American eBAFTSlfA ] S ! . ' —We have received the number of this excellent periodical for August 16 th , and find a notice that in Bro . Rob Morris's letter which appeared in our Magazine of the 21 st July , our printer made the price of
the Craftsman 100 dols . per annum instead of 1 dol . The fact is , the compositor was not up to decimal writing , and by leaving out the decimal point ( •) before the ciphers , committed almost as great a mistake as the West India merchant who sent 100 monkeys to a friend instead of two , because the word had been spelt " too '* without the "t" being crossed .
" Tyro . "—However it may add to the appearance , the Companion ( whether Principal or not ) , has no power to add a trimming of gold fringe to his Royal Arch apron , and if reported to the proper authorities , he would be rather sharply called to account for it . A Companion wearing such an apron would not be properly clothed , and should be refused admission into the Grand Chapter or any other Chapter as laid down in the Royal Arch regulations , page 24 .
" P . Z . "—The tune to which Burns wrote the song in question is a Scotch melody well known as Qvbde nicht , and joy be wi * you a ' . It is sometimes sung to the air
Ye banlcs and braes , a strain , however beautiful in itself , that does not suit the character of the Adieu . It has been never set to music by any composer , no doubt from the knowledge that Burns wrote it to an existing tune , and , that being a Masonic song , the interest was not of sufficient importance to render it as popular as musicians desire their productions to be .
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
Notices.
NOTI ^ ¦ ; V .. ¦ . ¦¦ ¦¦ - . ¦¦ •• ¦ ¦ " ¦ y
All communications for the Jlclitor , to ensure insertion in the next week ' s number , should be fbrwaM
not later than Saturday . Advertisers will qM on Monday morning .
Emblematic covers for the first volume of 1858 are now ready , price Is .- -or subscribers may have their volumes bound fo had , price Us . Qd . each . We shall be happy to receive essays or lectures oh Masonic subjects , returning them ( should they not be accepted ) if desired .
TO OOBRESPONDENTS , § £ ' The " American eBAFTSlfA ] S ! . ' —We have received the number of this excellent periodical for August 16 th , and find a notice that in Bro . Rob Morris's letter which appeared in our Magazine of the 21 st July , our printer made the price of
the Craftsman 100 dols . per annum instead of 1 dol . The fact is , the compositor was not up to decimal writing , and by leaving out the decimal point ( •) before the ciphers , committed almost as great a mistake as the West India merchant who sent 100 monkeys to a friend instead of two , because the word had been spelt " too '* without the "t" being crossed .
" Tyro . "—However it may add to the appearance , the Companion ( whether Principal or not ) , has no power to add a trimming of gold fringe to his Royal Arch apron , and if reported to the proper authorities , he would be rather sharply called to account for it . A Companion wearing such an apron would not be properly clothed , and should be refused admission into the Grand Chapter or any other Chapter as laid down in the Royal Arch regulations , page 24 .
" P . Z . "—The tune to which Burns wrote the song in question is a Scotch melody well known as Qvbde nicht , and joy be wi * you a ' . It is sometimes sung to the air
Ye banlcs and braes , a strain , however beautiful in itself , that does not suit the character of the Adieu . It has been never set to music by any composer , no doubt from the knowledge that Burns wrote it to an existing tune , and , that being a Masonic song , the interest was not of sufficient importance to render it as popular as musicians desire their productions to be .