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Periodical: Masonic Mirror

Summary: From Pat Deveney's database:

Masonic Mirror, The.
A Journal of Freemasonry, Devoted to the Proceedings at Masonic Lodges, the Welfare of the Order, the Interests of its Charities, Literature and News.
1854--1855
Monthly
London, England.
Language: English.
Editor: Bro. Henry George Warren, editor and publisher.
Succeeded by: The Freemasons' Magazine and Masonic Mirror (1856-1871)
1/1, 1854-1855.
48 pp.

In addition to the usual reports on the doings of the provincial and local Masonic lodges of England and book reviews and news of the Crimean War, the journal also carried occasional novelettes like C.J. Collins' "The Heir of Bendersleigh; or, The Freemason's Promise"

Other Sources:
Issues:Masonic Mirror 1854
Masonic Mirror 1855
Claude-Generated Themes:   The Masonic Mirror was a mid-nineteenth-century English craft-Freemasonry house-organ, given over to lodge proceedings, installations of officers, fraternal notices, and the administrative life of the Order. Its tone is that of a supportive insider organ rather than esoteric commentary or anti-Masonic exposure. Alongside the lodge reportage it carried the general miscellany typical of the period, including occasional phrenological matter drawn from Gall and Combe. It belongs to the documentary record of organized Freemasonry, sitting only at the outer edge of the corpus's occult concerns.

Generated by Claude from the periodical's digitized text; a thematic reading, not a bibliographic description.
Topics:Freemasonry and Masonic Orders