Thou must not lose thy glory's crown, Well won by many a hero's life! No! Onward still, ye noble pair, Each mindful of the illustrious past, The struggle and the triumph share, And ever may that triumph last! B. MS.S. OF BENJAMIN FRANKLIN.[1] [Footnote 1: These pieces, from the pen of Dr. Franklin, have never appeared in any edition of his works, and are from the manuscript book which contains the Lecture and Essays published in former numbers of the Messenger.] PROPOSALS That P. S. and A. N. be immediately invited into the Junto. That all new members be qualified by the four qualifications, and all the old ones take it. That these queries copied at the beginning of a book, be read distinctly each meeting, a pause between each while one might fill and drink a glass of wine. That if they cannot all be gone through in one night, we begin the next where we left off, only, such as particularly regard the funds to be read every night. That it be not hereafter the duty of any member to bring queries, but left to his discretion. That an old declamation be, without fail, read every night when there is no new one. That Mr. Brientnal's Poem on the Junto be read over once a month, and hum'd in consort[2] by as many as can hum it. [Footnote 2: Concert was thus spelt in the beginning of the last century. See many examples in the Tatler, etc.] That once a month in spring, summer and fall, the Junto meet in the afternoon in some proper place across the river for bodily exercise. That in the aforesaid book be kept minutes thus: _Friday, June 30, 1732._ Present A, B, C, D, E, F, etc. Figure denotes the queries answered. 1. H. P. read this maxim, viz. or this experiment, viz. or etc. 5. Lately arrived one —— of such a profession or such a science, etc. 7. X. Y. grew rich by this means, etc. That these minutes be read once a year at the anniversary. That all fines due be immediately paid in, and the penal laws for queries and declamations abolished, only he who is absent above ten times in the year, to pay 10_s._ towards the anniversary entertainment. That the secretary, for keeping the minutes, be allowed one shilling per night, to be paid out of the money already in his hands. That after the queries are begun reading, all discourse foreign to them shall be deemed impertinent. When any thing from reading an author is mentioned, if it exceed a line, and the Junto require it, the person shall bring the passage or an abstract of it in writing the next night, if he has it not with him. When the books of the library come, every member shall undertake some author, that he may not be without observations to communicate. * * * * * How shall we judge of the goodness of a writing? or what qualities should a writing on any subject have, to be good and perfect in its kind?