Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility. But a Monitor is within every mason’s reach. It is the first book to which his attention is directed, and is Often placed in his hands by thepresiding officer, as a manual which he is recommended to study; and, accordingly, the Monitor is to many a mason, emphatically, his cede meewm. But unless he can find Something -more important in its pages than such works as those’of webb and cross con tain, he will scarcely arise fromthe perusal with any in creased store of knowledge. Ohls’wrdt is for more light -not for a recapitulation of what he-has alreadyheard and seen, but~for a rational explanation of the meaning of that through which he has passed.