The record-union., 1899-10-15

be got out of the thing, for there was
little sense of any kind in it. The boy
was not given a chance to be honest
with Himself by thinking thing
through; he came naturally to accept
as his mental horizon the headlines in
his penny paper and the literature OF
the Daredevil Dan the e-Death-Deal- l.
ing Monster Of Dakota order. which
comprise the ordinary aesthetic equip
ment of the slum The mystery of his
further development into the tough
need not perplex anybody"
M. Jules Lemaitre has taken hand
in the anti-Masonic propaganda IN
France. In a little volume, La France
Maconnerie'' Paris: M. A. LereD, he
shows an astonishing familiarity with
the doings of the secret order Of which
he, of course, is not member The
harmful influence of the Free Masons,
| according to him, dates from the be-
ginning Of the present republican
regime, when they became political
agency and anti-religious sect. 1t was
in consequence Of this transformation
that, in 1888 the American lodges
broke off all relations with the Grand
Orient" of France. What the present
propaganda is aiming at is the appli-
cation of the existing law relative to
secret societies to the Free MaSonS,
and, furthermore, the right of asso-
citation for all legitimate purposes. An
other publication bearing the same
title as the above (and the imprint of
Perrin & Cie), contains the results OF
a study of Free Masonry in France,
by M. Georges Goyau, published last
spring in the Revue des Dtux
MOndes." It's tenor is the same as
that of M. Lemaitres book, which it
even surpasses in fullness of detail
pertaining to the Vaccinations OF
French Free Masonry during the last
thirty years.
On the evening of August Sth a Ten
nyson memorial window was unveiled
in Haslemere parish church. The sub
ject of the window, which has been
adapted from a design by the late Sir
E.. Burne-Jones, is THE Attainment, !"
and represents Sir Galahad at the lit
tie chapel where the vision of the Holy
Grail first comes to him. Behind him
stands one of the Grail angels with a
silver plate and spear in his hands,
and in the chapel is the Holy Grail
on the altar with an angel kneeling
behind it, Above is a crimson cloth,
which is represented as having been
removed from the Grail itself, and
I,.r, - IL TaII
Beneath the window is the following
inscription: '"To the glory of God, the
inspirer of prophet and of poet, and in
memory of Alfred, Lord TennySon,
Poet Laureate, in thankfulnesS for
the music of his words and for that
yet more excellent gift whereby, being
himself schooled by love and sorrows,
he had power to confirm in the hearts
of many their faith in the things that
are not seen, their hope of Immortality,
this window is dedicated by some
friends and neighbors in Halemere in
the year of our Lord MDCCCXCIX."
On the urn at Working, which con-
tains the ashes of Mildred le Gallienne,
the first wife of the author, are in
scribed in brass these lines:
Precious the box that Mary brake
OF spikenard for the Masters sake.
But ah! it held naught half so dear
As the sweet dust that WhitenS here.
The great wonder who shall say
To make so white a shell of clay,
From clay to win a face so fair,
Those strange, great eyes, that sunlit hair
4 ripple Ger her witty brain,
Or turn all back tor dust. again?
Who knows-but in some happy hour
The God whose strange alchemic power
Wrought her of dust again may turn
To woman this immortal urn?
The largest book in the world is in
the Chinese department of the British
Museum, and consists of 5000 volumes
This wonderful production of the Chi
nese press was purchased a few years
ago for $4,000, and is one of only three
copies in existence. 1t is an encyclo-
pedia of the literature of China, COW
ering a period Of twenty-eight CEN
turies-from 1000 B. c. to 100 A. D.
The extent of Robert Louis Steven
sons popularity as a novelist may be
partially gathered from the following
table of sales: Treasure Island 1888,
$1,000; Kidnapped" 1886, 10000;
The Black Arrow" 1888, 10000; THE
Master of Ballantrae," 1889, $4,000;
THE Wrecker," 1892, 29,000; Island
Nights Entertainments, 1892, 11,000.
these books have circulated anew at
six pence.