The Equinox (Volume I, Number VII)

REVIEWS THE PERFECT CEREMONIES OF CRAFT FREEMASONRV, WITH NOTES AND APPENDICES BY COLONEL R. Η. FORMAN, P.G.M., A.S.F.I. George Kenning & Son. WE extend the hand of brotherhood to Colonel Forman. While regretting to some extent the extreme lengths to which he has gone in making it quite clear to cowans and eavesdroppers exactly what happens in the Raising, and in publishing careful diagrams of the secret steps, etc., the only possibleambiguity, e.g. in the murder of H. A., being that 1 t—-— might stand for left testicle, we think it is better so. Since English Freemasonry has become soulless formalism, let us at least perform the ceremonies with decorum ! Your reviewer is personally a staunch Tory, and cannot help preferring the “ Emulation " working which long years have endeared to him. But never will he consent to the foul hash of the 23rd Psalm (Milton’s, I suppose) here still printed. Colonel Forman shows a good deal of insight into the true meaning of Masonry,Iand a real understanding of the symbolism. He appears a suitable candidate for some more serious order, such as the M M M or even the O.T.O. H. Κ. Τ. TENTERHOOKS. By ADA LEVERSON. δε. MRS, LEVERSON is easily the daintiest and wittiest or our younger feminine writers; but she does well to call her latest masterpiece Tznlerlwa/ir. Mrs. Leverson offers us a picture of an aged, wrinkled and bedizened Jewess with false hair and teeth, painted and whitewashed with kohl, rouge and chalk until there seems hardly any woman there at all. Yet not content with addiction to indiscriminate adultery and morphine, she finds pleasure in seducing young men and picking their pockets. Fie! you can surely show us a prettier picture than that, Why not return to your earlier manner? Not necessarily the manner ofAn [d;/ll in Bloomsbury, but you might advantageously find material in Brixton or Bayswater. FELIX. THE MASTER MASON’S HANDBOOK. By BRO. FRED. J. W. CROWE, P.M. 328, 2806; Member Lodge "Quatuor Coronati" 2076, P. Prov. G. Org, Devonh etc., with an Introduction by BRO. W. J. HUGHAN, P.G.D. England. Geo. Kenning & Son. I:. 6a'. A USEFUL guide in the practical details of Freemasonry. On the subject of the serious study of the Order, however, Bro. Crowe is rather pathetic. He refers us to learned Bro. This, and illuminated Bro. That, and instructed Bro. Tether; but orthodox Freemasonry has apparently not yet any adherent who 255