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Masonic Notes And Queries.
Capitular Commission never claimed to have the " executive government and power to regulate all civil and financial matters " concentrated in itself ; but invariably acknowledged and recognised the Supreme Authority of the Lieutenant of the Magistery and S . Council . 3 . That the Langues of Aragon and Castile , having ceased to belong to the Order in 1802 , could have had no
connection with the Capitular Commission of the three French Langues . 4 . That the Supreme Authority of the Order , the Lieutenant of the Magistery and S . Council , and the Languages of Italy and Germany , the only two Languages actually in existence at the period , were never consulted about the transactions of 1826-31 ; and never approved
of , nor sanctiohed , the re-establishment of the " English Langue . " 5 . That the only' grounds on which the " English Laugue" can claim to be re-established , rest upon the authority of the French Capitular Commission ; which , if ever legitimate in France , ceuld never be legitimately exercised in England . And the evidence of the "
Declaratory Resolution , " No . VI ., formed by the " Chapter General of the English Langue , presided over by the Grand Prior , " in 1841 , shows how it was then regarded here . 6 . That the "Articles of Convention , " by which the " English Langue" claims to be revived , are not worth the on which they are written . And no one who
paper reads the Syn . Sketch , and tests it by its own statements and by collateral evidence , as I have done , can fail to come to the same conclusion . I offer my thanks to your correspondent ( 2 S . x . 460 ) , for having drawn attention to it . —HISTOEICTJS .
In my communication in " N . & Q . " ( 3 " S . iii . 252 ) about the Knights of St . ' John , I mistook a date . The Paris Commission was dissolved on March 27 , 1824 , — two years before the execution of the instruments by which that commission has been supposed to have revived the Langue of England . I beg you to insert this material correction . —GEOKGE BOWYEE .
SISTEE CAUDLE . Where can I find a song , one verse of which is about Sister Caudle Masonry , and reads thus : — " In Masonry I find 'tis true , A brother they have made of you , A sister soon I will be too , Don't I always lecture
say ; A secret from your spouse—odds life Come tell it to your lawful wife j A secret , la ! how very queer , Come tell it to me—there ' s a dear . You won't!— ' Oh . ' Caudle , now I ken , The secret's in the Aprons then , Which makes you look like Turnpike Men , ' And that ' s the way she lectures . "
It was evidently founded on Mrs . Caudle ' s Lectures , but no one that I can find knows it . — -B . B . [ The song is entitled Rhyming Reminiscences of Mrs . Caudle ' s Lectures , arranged by E . Fawcett . The author of the original Caudle ' s Lectures was our late worthy Bro . Douglas Jerrold . l
SOLOMON ' S PILLAB . AT ROME . Weever , in his Funeral Monuments , fob , London , 1631 , page 160 , in his account of tbe various pardons and indulgences granted by divers Popes , says . — " Item : in the same chirche ( St . Peter ' s , at Rome ) , on the ryght side , is a pilour that was sometyme off Salamon ' s temple , at whiche ilour our Lord was wonte to rest himwhan
p , be preched to the people , at which pylour , if ther any be frentyk , or madd , or troubled with spyritts , they be deliveryd and made hoole . " Any other references to the pillars will be acceptable to—M . C .
British Sculpture.—A Visit To The Studios.
BRITISH SCULPTURE . —A VISIT TO THE STUDIOS .
( From the Art Journal . ) There have never , perhaps , been simultaneously so many public sculptural works commissioned and in progress as at present ; and it is remarkable that they generally coincide in a community of character that suggests a comparison between the existing state of our school of sculpture and the hard conditions of its rise and growth .
By critical visitors from the Continent during the season just passed , our sculptors have been placed at the bottom of the European catalogue . The quality of much of the art shown in our most public sites was enough for travellers , who came to us already unfavourably prejudiced . To them the selection of an incapable artist for the execution of a national memorial is an anomaly which no
explanation could render intelligible . It is certain that our school of sculpture has never been more liberally supported than at present ; but whether it is in a condition of advancement proportionate to that support , can only be determined hereafter , when the works now in hand shall be completed and placed in their appointed sites . Between the earlstate of painting and the infancy of
y English sculpture there is some analogy , inasmuch , aa each , though with different purpose , was intended for the interior decoration of churches . We are eminently conservative of the memory of our worthies ; and with the desire of a memorial rather of their life than of their
death , we have begun to throng our public places with statues removed as far as possible from tbe monumental , and bearing direct allusion to the business of life . It is in this direction that the stream of patronage has set in . The years are not many since the erection of the earliest of those works , which claim to be regarded as belonging to the modern series—each , according to its later date ,
having been modelled in a successively simpler spirit of portraiture . Chantrey was an accomplished master in the difficult arb of reconciling ancient and modern art . All his works date as of our time , but in bheir style there is a retrospect down a long vista of centuries . He was not defective on the side of pedantry ; he failed on that of vacancy—as witness the statue in Trafalgar-square .
On the other hand , his successes were more than artistic triumphs . Who that has seen them has forgotten his statues of Dalton , Grattan , Washington , and a few others ? for ib does not fall to the lot of one man to produce many such figures . When it is remembered how bitterly Bailey complained of the little discretion left him by the committee to accept an ideal design as a personal likeness . Bacon was unfettered in his " Doctor Johnson , " as was Gibson in bis "Huskisson ; " yet , notwithstanding the beauties , power , and learning displayed in those statues
our matter-of-fact days seem to reject classic allusion , and insist on personal identity . Some of the statues that have been got up by irresponsible committees are tbe very worst of our public works . In contrast to these , certain of the series in St . Stephen's Hall afford ample evidence in favour of the better part—that is , of selecting a sculptor of known talent , and confiding to him the
intended work . Few of our most eminent artists will enter the arena of competition ; this was seen in the exhibitions for tbe decoration of the Houses of Parliament ; and there continues to be shown a disinclination to competition in a- ratio inverse to the diminution of confidence in the judgment of committees , when exercised in selection from an exhibition of models or designs . When the statue of
Napoleon I . was set up in the Place Vendome , it was observed by an eminent artist that thenceforward the declension of Greek and Roman design in statues would be gradual but certain , and so ib has been . The memorial statues which are now in progress are so numerous and important as to demand notice . They also mark a complete revolution in this branch of art . The statue of the late Prince Consort for the Horticultural Gardens , which was described while in progress , is now being cast in bronze , and so also are the sup-
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Masonic Notes And Queries.
Capitular Commission never claimed to have the " executive government and power to regulate all civil and financial matters " concentrated in itself ; but invariably acknowledged and recognised the Supreme Authority of the Lieutenant of the Magistery and S . Council . 3 . That the Langues of Aragon and Castile , having ceased to belong to the Order in 1802 , could have had no
connection with the Capitular Commission of the three French Langues . 4 . That the Supreme Authority of the Order , the Lieutenant of the Magistery and S . Council , and the Languages of Italy and Germany , the only two Languages actually in existence at the period , were never consulted about the transactions of 1826-31 ; and never approved
of , nor sanctiohed , the re-establishment of the " English Langue . " 5 . That the only' grounds on which the " English Laugue" can claim to be re-established , rest upon the authority of the French Capitular Commission ; which , if ever legitimate in France , ceuld never be legitimately exercised in England . And the evidence of the "
Declaratory Resolution , " No . VI ., formed by the " Chapter General of the English Langue , presided over by the Grand Prior , " in 1841 , shows how it was then regarded here . 6 . That the "Articles of Convention , " by which the " English Langue" claims to be revived , are not worth the on which they are written . And no one who
paper reads the Syn . Sketch , and tests it by its own statements and by collateral evidence , as I have done , can fail to come to the same conclusion . I offer my thanks to your correspondent ( 2 S . x . 460 ) , for having drawn attention to it . —HISTOEICTJS .
In my communication in " N . & Q . " ( 3 " S . iii . 252 ) about the Knights of St . ' John , I mistook a date . The Paris Commission was dissolved on March 27 , 1824 , — two years before the execution of the instruments by which that commission has been supposed to have revived the Langue of England . I beg you to insert this material correction . —GEOKGE BOWYEE .
SISTEE CAUDLE . Where can I find a song , one verse of which is about Sister Caudle Masonry , and reads thus : — " In Masonry I find 'tis true , A brother they have made of you , A sister soon I will be too , Don't I always lecture
say ; A secret from your spouse—odds life Come tell it to your lawful wife j A secret , la ! how very queer , Come tell it to me—there ' s a dear . You won't!— ' Oh . ' Caudle , now I ken , The secret's in the Aprons then , Which makes you look like Turnpike Men , ' And that ' s the way she lectures . "
It was evidently founded on Mrs . Caudle ' s Lectures , but no one that I can find knows it . — -B . B . [ The song is entitled Rhyming Reminiscences of Mrs . Caudle ' s Lectures , arranged by E . Fawcett . The author of the original Caudle ' s Lectures was our late worthy Bro . Douglas Jerrold . l
SOLOMON ' S PILLAB . AT ROME . Weever , in his Funeral Monuments , fob , London , 1631 , page 160 , in his account of tbe various pardons and indulgences granted by divers Popes , says . — " Item : in the same chirche ( St . Peter ' s , at Rome ) , on the ryght side , is a pilour that was sometyme off Salamon ' s temple , at whiche ilour our Lord was wonte to rest himwhan
p , be preched to the people , at which pylour , if ther any be frentyk , or madd , or troubled with spyritts , they be deliveryd and made hoole . " Any other references to the pillars will be acceptable to—M . C .
British Sculpture.—A Visit To The Studios.
BRITISH SCULPTURE . —A VISIT TO THE STUDIOS .
( From the Art Journal . ) There have never , perhaps , been simultaneously so many public sculptural works commissioned and in progress as at present ; and it is remarkable that they generally coincide in a community of character that suggests a comparison between the existing state of our school of sculpture and the hard conditions of its rise and growth .
By critical visitors from the Continent during the season just passed , our sculptors have been placed at the bottom of the European catalogue . The quality of much of the art shown in our most public sites was enough for travellers , who came to us already unfavourably prejudiced . To them the selection of an incapable artist for the execution of a national memorial is an anomaly which no
explanation could render intelligible . It is certain that our school of sculpture has never been more liberally supported than at present ; but whether it is in a condition of advancement proportionate to that support , can only be determined hereafter , when the works now in hand shall be completed and placed in their appointed sites . Between the earlstate of painting and the infancy of
y English sculpture there is some analogy , inasmuch , aa each , though with different purpose , was intended for the interior decoration of churches . We are eminently conservative of the memory of our worthies ; and with the desire of a memorial rather of their life than of their
death , we have begun to throng our public places with statues removed as far as possible from tbe monumental , and bearing direct allusion to the business of life . It is in this direction that the stream of patronage has set in . The years are not many since the erection of the earliest of those works , which claim to be regarded as belonging to the modern series—each , according to its later date ,
having been modelled in a successively simpler spirit of portraiture . Chantrey was an accomplished master in the difficult arb of reconciling ancient and modern art . All his works date as of our time , but in bheir style there is a retrospect down a long vista of centuries . He was not defective on the side of pedantry ; he failed on that of vacancy—as witness the statue in Trafalgar-square .
On the other hand , his successes were more than artistic triumphs . Who that has seen them has forgotten his statues of Dalton , Grattan , Washington , and a few others ? for ib does not fall to the lot of one man to produce many such figures . When it is remembered how bitterly Bailey complained of the little discretion left him by the committee to accept an ideal design as a personal likeness . Bacon was unfettered in his " Doctor Johnson , " as was Gibson in bis "Huskisson ; " yet , notwithstanding the beauties , power , and learning displayed in those statues
our matter-of-fact days seem to reject classic allusion , and insist on personal identity . Some of the statues that have been got up by irresponsible committees are tbe very worst of our public works . In contrast to these , certain of the series in St . Stephen's Hall afford ample evidence in favour of the better part—that is , of selecting a sculptor of known talent , and confiding to him the
intended work . Few of our most eminent artists will enter the arena of competition ; this was seen in the exhibitions for tbe decoration of the Houses of Parliament ; and there continues to be shown a disinclination to competition in a- ratio inverse to the diminution of confidence in the judgment of committees , when exercised in selection from an exhibition of models or designs . When the statue of
Napoleon I . was set up in the Place Vendome , it was observed by an eminent artist that thenceforward the declension of Greek and Roman design in statues would be gradual but certain , and so ib has been . The memorial statues which are now in progress are so numerous and important as to demand notice . They also mark a complete revolution in this branch of art . The statue of the late Prince Consort for the Horticultural Gardens , which was described while in progress , is now being cast in bronze , and so also are the sup-