ols. 8vo.
London, 1849. [In vol. ii. p. 135. is an able and interesting essay
entitled "_Rosicrucianism and Freemasonry_," in which the author, with
considerable success, endeavours to show that _Rosicrucianism_ had no
existence before the sixteenth century, and is a mere elaboration of
Paracelsian doctrines: and that _Freemasonry_ is nothing more than an
offspring from it, and has, consequently, no claim to the antiquity of
which it boasts.]

Swift's Tale of a Tub. [In Section X. of this wonderful book will be
found a caustic piece of satire on the futility of the _Rosicrucian_
philosophy.]

Butler's Hudibras. [Grey's notes to part I., _passim._]

Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions. By Charles Mackay, LL.D. 2
vols. 8vo. [In the section devoted to the _Alchymists_, is a carefully
compiled account of the _Rosicrucians_.]

Chambers's Papers for the People, No. 33., vol. v., "Secret Societies
of the Middle Ages."

Idem, No. 66., "Alchemy and the Alchemists."

The Guardian, No. 166.

The Spectator, No. 574.

Idem, No. 379. [This number contains Budgell's _Legend of the Sepulchre
of Rosicrucius_.]

The Rosicrucian: a Novel. 3 vols. 8vo.

Zanoni. By Sir E. L. Bulwer.

After the slumber of a century, with new objects and regulations,
_Rosicrucianism_ (so to speak) was revived in the country of its birth.

A very curious volume was published fifty years ago, entitled _Proofs of a
Conspiracy against all the Religions and Governments of Europe, carried on
in the secret meetings of Freemasons, Illuminati, and Reading Societies_,
by John Robinson, A.M., &c., 8vo., London, 1798. This volume is chiefly
occupied by a history of the origin, proceedings, and objects of the
_Illuminati_, a sect which had rendered important services to revolutionary
interests, and laid the foundations of European propagandism. Much curious
matter relative to this sect will also be found in George Sand's _Comtesse
de Rudolstadt_, vol. ii.; upon, or just before, its extinction, a new
political association was formed at Baden and Carlsruhe, under the auspices
of Baron van Edelsheim, police minister of the Elector, under the title of
_Die Rosenkrietzer_. This society was called into existence by a
reactionary dread of that republicanism in politics, and atheism in morals,
which seemed at that time to prey upon the vitals of European society. The