An engraving titled 'The East—In a Foreign Symbolic Lodge.' The illustration shows the interior of a Masonic lodge. Two large pillars with decorated capitals frame the scene, with heavy curtains draped over them. The floor is a black and white checkerboard pattern leading to a central cubic pedestal or altar marked with the Square and Compasses. Behind the altar, a three-stepped platform supports a throne where a crowned figure in robes, representing King Solomon, sits holding a scepter. Above the throne, a radiant sunburst contains a large letter 'G', which is suspended by three chains from the ceiling.

PART I.

THE THREE DEGREES.

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MASTER MASONS' APRONS.

From the Aprons worn by the guardian figures at the tomb of the Egyptian Monarch Rasmen Tetahem possibly a reference to a specific pharaonic figure as identified in 19th-century Masonic history, through those of other ages and lands described by Dr. Oliver George Oliver, a prolific 19th-century Masonic author in “Signs and Symbols,” there has hardly been sufficient alteration to warrant a Darwinian Chapter on evolution and survival of the fittest.

The Apron of a Master Mason is too well known to need description: of handsome durable materials, it can be produced at fair profit for 15 shillings. (No. 1.)

By using ribbon whose surface only is of silk, an ordinary lambskin, and tassels made by apprentice hands, it can be made for 12 shillings and 6 pence. (No. 2.)

These are the standards adopted: with only slight differences in their appearance being perceptible.

For connoisseurs in select goods, we produce another and superfine quality, distinguished by emblems in the center of the rosettes and by double tassels. (No. 3.)