Beside these open meetings, they also hold private meetings, where further and more familiar discussions and conversations are carried on. A series of notes of all the discussions has been started in the form of a printed leaflet, to be distributed each month among all the members to be found in the United States, with the object of solidifying them in their struggle to find the truth, and if possible to procure an interchange of questions and replies in the whole body of American Theosophists. It is believed that this will do much toward helping all, for there is no better way of getting new ideas and of spreading knowledge, than by rubbing minds together, so to say, and thus eliciting the doubts, the questions, and the views of all. As we are a universal Brotherhood, we are each bound to help the rest, and to do as much as we can toward communicating with each other upon the subject of our studies. This does not mean that any one is to give to the world any rare knowledge which ought to be hidden. It is supposed that up to this time the whole body of American Theosophists is upon one plane. At any rate, those who possess occult knowledge, or think they do, ought to know where and when to keep silent. Long before we are ready for occult knowledge, we have to study that which is the common property of all, but which hitherto has been neglected and allowed to lie hidden, not only in Eastern literature, but also in much that has been produced among Christian people. The donations of books for the Library of the Branch, during the last month, have been as follows: By S. C. & L. M. Gould: _Vol._ I. _and_ II. _Notes and Queries_; by Bro. R. Hart, 10 books: _Mary Jane (spiritist inquiry)_, _Suicide, 2 vols._, _Lights and Shades of Spiritualism_, _Psychography (Oxon)_, _Animal Magnetism_, _&c._, _England and Islam_, _Vocal Culture_, _Civil Polity of the U. S._; by Bro. W. H. Dannat, London Lodge, 20 books: _Modern Magic_, _Book of Mediums_, _Infinite and Finite_, _Idyll of White Lotos_, _Possibility of not Dying_, _Col. Olcott’s Lectures_, _Palmistry_, _Essence of Christianity_, _Mysteries of Astrology_, _Zoroaster_, _Rosicrucians (Jennings)_, _Chaldean Magic_, _Circle of Light_, _Gould’s Myths_, _Unseen Universe_, _Moore’s Epicurean_, _Oriental Interpreter_, _Theosophy and the Higher Life_, _Pagan and Christian Symbolism (Inman)_, _Man-Fragments_, _&c._, and _28 Miscellaneous Theosophical pamphlets_. * * * * * CINCINNATI.—The new Branch here has been organized since our last issue, with about twenty members. Some meetings have been held at which great interest was manifested. At the next meeting an essay upon some theosophical subject will be read. The members are all engaged in serious study of such subjects as: the laws of Karma, Reincarnation, &c. “As the great universe has no boundary, and the eight quarters of heaven no gateway, so Supreme Reason has no limits.”—_Buddha._