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the romance of its lineage, will have disclosed its birth-right connection 

 with a secret brotherhood, whose profoimder Freemasonry is based on 

 blood, historically extending itself into the most dim antiquity, and 

 geographically spreading over most of the earth. The fascinations of 

 this mystic tie are wonderful Afraid or ashamed to reveal the secret 

 to the outside world, the young Gipsy is inwardly intensely proud of 

 his unique nobility, and is very likely to despise his alien father, who ia 

 of course glad to keep the late discovered secret from the world. Hence 

 dear reader, you know not but your next neighbour is a Gipsy." " The 

 volume before us possesses a rare interest, both from the unique charac- 

 ter of the subject, and from the absence of nearly any other source of 

 full information. It is the result of observation from real life." The 

 language " is spoken with varying dialects in different countries, but 

 with standard purity in Hungary. It is the precious inheritance and 

 proud peculiarity of the Gipsy, which he will never forget and seldom 

 reveal. The varied and skillful manoeuvres of Mr. Sinison to purloin or 

 wheedle out a small vocabulary, with the various effects of the opera- 

 tion on the minds and actions of the Gipsies, furnish many an amusing 

 narrative in these pages," " Persecutions of the most cruel character 

 have embittered and barbarized them. Even now . . . they do not 



realize the kindly feeling of enlightened minds toward them, and view 

 with fierce suspicion every approach designed to draw from them the se- 

 crets of their history, habits, laws and language." " The age of racial 

 caste is passing away. Modern Christianity will refuse to tolerate the 

 spirit of hostility and oppression based on feature, colour, or lineage." The 

 "book is an intended first step for the improvement of the race that forms 

 its subject, and every magnanimous spirit must wish that it may prove 

 not the last. We heartily commend the work to our readers as not only 

 full of fascinating details, but abounding with points of interest to the 

 benevolent Christian heart." " The general spirit of the work is em- 

 inently enlightened, liberal, and humane." 



Evangelical Quarterly Review." 'i he Gipsies, their race 

 and language have always excited a more than ordinary interest. The 

 work before us, apparently the result of careful research, is a compre- 

 hensive history of this singular people, abounding in marvelous inci- 

 dents and curious information. It is highly instructive, and there is 

 appended a full and most careful index so important in every work." 



National Freemason. " We feel confident that our readers 

 Will relish the following concerning the Gipsies, from the British Ma- 

 sonic Organ : That an article on Gipsyism is not out of place in this Mag- 

 azine will be admitted by every one who knows anything of the history, 

 manners, and customs of these strange wanderers among the nations of 

 the earth. The Freemasons have a language, words, and signs peculiar 

 to themselves ; so have the Gipsies. A Freemason has in every country 

 a friend, and in every climate a home, secured to him by the mystic in- 

 fluence of that worldwide association to which he belongs ; similar are 

 the privileges of the Gipsy. But here, of course, the analogy ceases 

 Freemasonry is an Order banded together for purposes of the highest 

 benevolence. Gipsyism, we fear, has been a source of constant trouble 

 and inconvenience to European nations. The interest, therefore, which 

 as Masons we may evince in the Gipsies arises principally, we may say 

 wholly, from the fact of their being a secret society, and also from the 

 fact that many of them are enrolled in our lodges. There are 



