THE

ODD FELLOWS'

QUARTERLY MAGAZINE.

EDITED BY

JOHN BOLTON ROGERSON,

AUTHOR OF

"RHYME, ROMANCE, AND REVERY," "A VOICE FROM THE TOWN,"
AND "THE WANDERING ANGEL."

Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen.-Like friends, too, we should return
to them again and again-for like true friends, they will never fail us-never cease to instruct--
never cloy.

VOL. IX.

FROM JANUARY, 1846, TO OCTOBER, 1847.

New Series.

MANCHESTER:

PUBLISHED BY THE G.M. AND BOARD OF DIRECTORS AT THE BOARD
ROOM, No. 8, AYTOUN STREET, PORTLAND STREET.

PRINTED BY MARK WARDLE, FENNEL STREET.

1847.

PREFACE.

The

THE NINTH VOLUME of the Magazine having arrived at its termination, the duty devolves upon us of saying a few words on the subject. impossibility of pleasing all is a truism universally admitted, but we may at least claim for ourselves an earnest and anxious desire to please the many. Our readers are the only judges whether that desire has been successfully carried into effect or not. We have been officially connected with the Magazine for upwards of six years, and during that time it may naturally be expected that we have become tolerably familiar with the difficulties as well as the pleasures of editing a publication principally designed for and belonging to the industrious portion of the community. We may have unintentionally given pain to amiable but unpractised writers, when we have found ourselves compelled to abstain from publishing their productions, and we may, on the other hand, have seemed not over fastidious in admitting to our pages articles requiring polish and maturity of thought. We have always endeavoured to decline unacceptable articles with as little offence to the authors as possible, and we plead guilty to having occasionally inserted productions which were not entirely faultless. Our wish has been to encourage a love of literature amongst the members of the Order, and we have been disposed to look with a favourable eye on the attempts of young writers. We have always had to bear in mind that we depended upon gratuitous labours, and that our correspondents were placed upon a very different footing to those who receive ample remuneration for their literary exertions. With different resources our matter might be of superior quality, though many articles grace our pages which would do honour to the most costly periodicals of the time, and we cannot thank sufficiently those tried and talented friends, who have so undeviatingly exhibited a disinterested willingness to aid us in our undertaking. Our contemporaries in the Order, who appear more frequently, have relieved us in great part from dwelling on temporary events, but we trust that no Number of the Magazine has appeared which does not contain something worthy the consideration and remembrance of the reader. The future must speak for itself, though we venture to express a confident hope that the experience of the past will be manifested in the improved matter and arrangements of our forthcoming volume.