A Short Masonic History: Being an Account of the Growth of Freemasonry, & Some of the Earlier Secret Societies, Vol. II:

From the FOREWORD of Volume II. OWING to the favourable reception accorded by Freemasons, not only in England, but also in America and South Africa, to the Author's first volume of the "Short Masonic History," he has been encouraged to supplement it by the present work. This continues the account of the Craft, and attemps to shew how the mystical ideas of the Freemasons swept onward in full flood, and proceeded to form many tributaries to the main river in the shape of other Masonic bodies,...