Note by the Publishers

NOTE BY THE PUBLISHERS.

So far as known, the foregoing Preface is the last word written by Sir George Cooper Connor, the author of this volume. Only a few days later he was forced by disease to the chamber of death, which he never again left until the end came.

The expression of his thanks in the last paragraph may therefore be taken as his loving farewell to his brethren; and it is believed that his earnest desire to provide a Monitor that should be complete and helpful to the members of the Order has been fully realized in this new edition of Shibboleth, to the preparation of which were given the last of his labors on earth.