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QUESTIONS.

Bring me a book about this, or any footstep of knowledge, if it be true."

I have a book with the following quotation in it credited to Jesus. Where is it to be found? JONATHAN. "If thou knowest what thou doest, blessed art thou; but if thou knowest not what thou doest, cursed art thou."

2. It is said that Gladestone once in some book, speech, or on some occasion, said he hoped to live long enough to see two things accomplished, namely: First, the Home Rule of Ireland. Second, the identification of Homer's Iliad and Odyssey with the historical events of the Old Testament, in some form, by similarity, resemblance, or tpyical comparisons. For instance, the siege of Troy as a struggle with the powers of darkness of this world. The return of Ulysses as a type of the redemption of the race. Who can give the account of Gladstone's words?

PHILOHOMEROS.

Two Letters

THE WORDS AND DEEDS OF JOSHUA DAVISON. from a Lady in London to her Friend in Paris. London. Price, sixpence. Our reader, will recall the work described in this magazine (Vol. XVII, p. 260), "Joshua Davison" (Jesus the son of David), by E Lynne Linton. In this little work before us, Joshua goes out on a divine mission, is supported by a per son named Johnson his own cousin, son of a clergyman; Josh ua is son of Maria Wright living with a carpenter; he was fond of Marian Gray and Miriam Lovell. The work is entertaining. Price, threepence. I. G. Ousley, 3 Evelyn Terrace, Brignton.

FREEMAN OR FREEDMAN. To become a freeman, each person was legally required to be a respectable member of some Congregational church. Persons were made freemen by the General Court of the Colonies. This regulation was so far modified by Royal order in 1664, as to allow individuals to be made freemen, who could obtain certificates of their being correct in doctrine and conduct, from clergymen acquainted with them. -"History of Ipswich, Essex, and Hamilton," by Joseph B. Felt, Hamilton. Cambridge, 1834.

CHRIST'S SEAMLESS GARMENT. The Spirit of the Word. John xix, 24. Free. Free. A. P. Adams, Beverly Mass.

ALTRURIAN ORDER OF MYSTICS. A grand system of education, practical and psychic, by which it is intended to harmonize students with the inevitable laws of life and happiness. An education at home or in one of our Colleges which are located in any jurisdiction that has fifteen local colleges. Protection to members. Address for particulars, L. A. Fealy, President, F. N., Cullman, Ala.

"There are one-story men, two-story men, and three story men. One story men are fact collectors; two-story men reason about facts; three story men are those who are described as inspired men." Oliver Wendell Holmes.

THE SPHINX is the largest and the leading astrological magazine in America. It is edited by Catharine H. Thompson, and published monthly by Sphinx Publishing Co., 480 Mass. Avenue, Boston, Mass., at $3 00 a year; 72 pages, monthly. The Easter Number, 1900, is filled with the marrow of prime papers on the prophetic science, namely: A Famous Prediction by Merlin; An Italian Oration, A. G. Trent; People Who Make Money, Sepharial; A Sign of the Times, Kymry; I saw a Star Fall from Heaven; Horoscope by One of the Raphaels, Raphael; Character and Fortunes of Scorpio, Ely Star; The Astrologer's Vade Mecum, W. H. Chaney; An Astrological Courtship, Effie W. Merriman; The Planetary Types, Desbarrolles; Birthday Information, Astor; Go thou and do likewile, Jeremy Taylor; American of Astrology, C. H. Thomson.

THE FORUM, No. 12, closes the Vth volume of this theosophical serial. The first paper is on Helena Petrovna Blavatsky. This is followed by Give Unto Me Thy Peace. The Oriental department contains Songs of the Masters, chapter IV. The New Cycle; "Reincarnation in the New Testament," by J. M. Pryse, is criticized. $1.00 a year. Box 1584, New York City.

NEW CHURH LIFE. Devoted to teachings revealed through Emanuel Swedenborg. Now published in 8vo form, 52 pages; monthly; Vol. XX. $1.00 a year. Huntingdon Valley, Pa.

April, 1900, contains: The Writings as the Word; "In Remembrance of Me;" The Lord Transfigured; New Transla tion of "Divine Providence"; Swedenborg's Scientific Works and Writings; Biography of John James Garth Wilkinson; Swedenborg's earliest publications, and New Church news.

EDWARD POSTLETHWAYT PAGE.

This man announced him.
He was a Protestant

self as "The High Priest of Nature." Irishman of culture, and a complete gentleman; white-headed (about 1845), rather stout, and always the perfection of neatness in dress. He published various pamphlets with eccentric titles, generally without covers, and resided at Marietta, Ohio. The editions were small and hence very few are preserved. He died on the Virginia side of the Ohio river about 1853. He published a monthly, at one dollar for twelve numbers, namely: "The Reminiscence of Nature, and Clew to Bible Astrology, by the Recess of the Equinoxes according to Fluxions."

This periodical was published at Marietta, Ohio, 1831-1832. The 6th number for January, 1832, contains a biographical note of the editor, as follows:

"High Priest of Nature's emblem speech; whilom, in the East Indies, a Lieutenant in H. B. M., 12th Reg't Inf'y at 12 a Midshipman in H. B. M. ship Leviathan 74, in the West Indies. Three months accepted by the London Episcopal Society for Africa and the East; but his constitution destroyed by continued sickness, he came to America in A. D. 1807; bound to India a Missionary at his own cost, waving Latin, Greek and Hebrew, unequal to the fatigue of study for ordination. Here he has remained ever since, long too ill to seek India; 11 years a farmer in Ohio." "Ere missionaries you send, your own idolatry end; O what poetry is Nature, in her every feature."

One of his previous octavo pamplets contains this title page: "Magic Harmonies; exemplifying the Second Advent Dispensation; or Grand Universal Political New Birth, and Third Resurrection. By solar calculation, July, A. D. 1821: by Lunar (the only true scriptural rule of time) much more. By Edward Postlethwayt Page, Late of Marietta, Ohio. New York, 1821." "The work of Christ was the republication and revival of the law of nature.

"This world, like the tabernacle of old, was so framed and constituted, as to be the pattern of heavenly things. All things here on earth are embleins of realities in heaven.

read it on its smooth

"The whole of the Bible is a mirror of water level and assimilation, purturbed by no averice, no strife, no vain glory."

(42 pages.)

THOMAS FREDERICK PAGE. This man is living at the present time in Laconia, N. H. We are informed he is a quiet, intelligent, peaceable citizen. He writes much of the time and sends his manuscript volumes to Masonic libraries, editors of serials, the press, and his friendy. This office has received twenty five manuscripts, octavo size, neatly sewed, and legibly written, the titles of which are given on page VIII of supplement of our No. for April, 1900. He has also sent one cloth bound volume of manuscripts entitled "The Calculation of Nine as to an Occult Science." We cannot fathom it. He has also published one octavo volume, in cloth, of 156 pages. It is "The Golden Fleece; a Book of Jewish Cabalism." Laconia, N. H., 1888. We do not comprehend it. The following is from the preface:

"When language is analyzed, a deeper meaning is seen, which leads to a higher knowledge of the law of God, and with his dealings with man in the law. Beneath the face of language lays the Hebraic law, always and forever the same."

AN EARLY COPY OF HOMER'S WORKS. There is a very early copy of Homer's works in the Nebraska State Historical Society's Library at Lincoln, Neb. The title page is as follows: HOMERI OPERA GRECO. Latina, quae quiden nunc extant, omnia. HOC EST: ILIAS, ODYSSEA, BATRACHOIVIYOMACHIA, ET HYMNI PRAETEREH HO meri uita ex Plutarcho, cum Latina item interpretatione, locis commumibus ubige in margine natals. Omnibus in utriufqe linguæ tyronum ufum Græce Latine fimul eregiorè exprefis. In haec operamfuam contulit SEBA... AINUS CASTALIO ficuti in Praefatione uerfo max folio videre licet. BASILEE PER NICOLAUM Brylingerum, 1561.

The pages measure 81×13 inches. Three columns per page, with index following covering 16 pages. The " Homeri Ilias occupies 293 pages; the Odyssey follows occupying 225 pages. The Batrachomyomachia, Hymni, and Plutarch's Life of Homer occupy the remainder of the volume, a total of 627 pages. The book was found in Columbus, Neb, but the history is as yet unknown. Any further details of the book as to description will be gladly given by the librarian, Jay Amos Barrett.

Letter of Col. John Goffe, 1754.

Following is a letter of John Goffe, of Bedford, Sept 1, 1754, giving an account of the attacks of the Indians in this State at that time, and other information of the condition of affairs in this vicinity. He was greatly interested in the development of New Hampshire, its resources, water power, products, and the then future of its prospects. His proposed survey and plan of Winnepise gee pond showed his foresight at that time. Such propositions of that time inspired Samuel Blodget forty years later to examine the "Winnipissioke pond " as he oalled it, and whose journal of his trip to that sheet of water we have already published, with some account of his famous canal in this city, in Vol. XVII, pp. 49-56. The extract from Parkman, at the close of this article, lucidly testifies to the realities of the "Indian summiers" which have traditionally descended to us.

A treaty between New York, Massachusetts, Connecticut and South Carolina was concluded with the six nations of Indians, as the Iroquois of the Mohawk valley were called. A conference of colonial delegates met at Albany and to them was submitted by Benjamin Franklin a plan of union of all the colonies, but it was rejected.

The purpose of their meeting was to plan for mutual defence against the Indians but they accomplished little if anything. At last in 1755 the petty attacks from Indian scalping parties had become so frequent and so unendurable that war was formally declared between the two countries. It is not desirable here to enter into any extended account of the French and Indian war as the ensuing conflict is called in history. This is merely a hasty summary of the important occurrences in the life of a New Hampshire borderer whose place in the great drama to be enacted on Lake George and Ticonderoga was but small. Since the close of the former war he had been busy mainly at home although we find that in 1753 he was making a survey and plan of Winnepiseogee pond and vicinity as he