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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



chit-chat with his piscatorial companions, fre- 

 quently enlivened his discourse with a proverb or 

 two, but on no occasion does he quote from those 

 said to be selected by his much loved Herbert. 



On the other hand, it is right to state that Her- 

 bert is said to have made a collection of Proverbs, 

 for i\Ir. Mayor informs us, that in the Middle Hill 

 MS. 9527, C. 8., is " a large book of stories, with 

 outlandisli proverbs at the end, Englished by Mr. 

 Goorge Herbert, in all 463 proverbs." {Life of 

 Nicholas Ferrar, App., p. 302.) These proverbs, 

 however, may have been copied from the printed 

 book. But even with this statement before us, it 

 is a matter deserving farther investigation, whe- 

 ther the work first published with his initials, 

 without the imprimatur of any editor, and un- 

 noted by his biographers, should be considered as 

 indubitably the production of George Hei-bert. 



J. Yeowell. 



8T. PAUL S JOURNEY TO DAMASCUS. 



Allow me to ask what ancient authority exists, 

 either in sculpture or painting, for representing 

 St. Paul as having been on horseback when 

 travelling on his memorable journey towards 

 Damascus ? 



In our translation of the Bible, the expressions 

 used are "as he journeyed" (Acts ix. 3., iropeuep-eat); 

 and the Apostle himself says, " as I made my 

 journey" (Acts xxii. 6., iropevo/j-ivw). The same 

 wor(]s, we see, are employed both in the Greek and 

 English in the two passages. Loi-d Lyttelton, in 

 his Observatiom on St. Pauls Conversion, uses the 

 phrase : " Those in company with Saul fell down 

 from their horses, together with him." Doddridge 

 expresses himself much in the same manner : " He 

 fell to the ground, being struck from the beast on 

 which he rode, as all that travelled with him like- 

 wise were." In the recent valuable work (by 

 Conybeare and Howson), The Life and Epistles of 

 St. Paid, the writers say ; " We know not how he 

 travelled : there is no proof that he was on horse- 

 back, although it is very probable," (vol. i. p. 91.). 



In Rubens's noble picture, now at Leigh Court, 

 which Waagen terms a master-piece, St. Paul is 

 represented as having been thrown over the head 

 of his spirited long-maned horse ; and the horses 

 of three of the attendants are rearing and running 

 away. 



The same also would appear to be the tradi- 

 tional view of the Greek Church, from a woodcut 

 of the conversion of St. Paul, which has been de- 

 scribed to me by a friend, who saw it in an old 

 Russian Primer taken from a corpse on the field 

 of Alma. 



In various pictures of modern date, and also on 

 the pediment of our metropolitan cathedral, — 

 " . . . . That stupendous frame, 

 Known by the Gentile's great Apostle's name," 



he is represented, by the sculptor Bird, as falling 

 from his horse. This piece of sculpture contains 

 eight large figures, five of which, beside that of 

 St. Paul, are on horseback. 



Walpole, when speaking of this work, is not 

 very complimentary : " Any statuary (he says) 

 was good enough for an ornament at that height, 

 and a good statuary had been too good." * 



St. Paul, it will be recollected, carried letters 

 from the high priest to the synagogues in Damas- 

 cus. The political state of that city, where his 

 name was known, was at the time somewhat criti- 

 cal ; his journey v/as, therefore, invested with some 

 importance. 



The length of the journey may be computed 

 at 136 miles, which is travelled by caravans in 

 about six days. St. Paul's position, therefore, and 

 the distance to be traversed, are material facts in 

 forming an opinion on this question, and lead us 

 to infer that the journey would not be performed 

 on foot. J. H. Markland. 



John Weaver. — What is known of the life and 

 family of Jolin Weaver, the dancing-master, who 

 died in 1730 ? He was the author of the follow- 

 ing works : 



" The Art of Dancing by Characters and Demonstra- 

 tive Figures. 1706. 4to." 



" An Essay towards a Plistory of Dancing ; in which 

 the whole Art, and its various Excellencies, are in some 

 measure explained. Lond. 1712. 8vo." 



" Anatomical and Mechanical Lectures on Dancing. 

 Lond. 1712. 8vo." 



The Biographie Universelle also ascribes to him 

 "plusieurs pantomimes dramatiques, et d'autres 

 ouvrages, tels que Les Amours de Mars et Venus, 

 Orphee et Eurydice" 



Weaver advertised his intention of publishing 

 his History of Dancing in a letter printed in The 

 Spectator, No. 334. In No. 466. Steele says : 



" I have some time ago spoken of a treatise by Mr. 

 Weaver on this ."subject, which is nowf (I understand) 

 ready to be published. This work sets this matter in a 

 very plain and advantageous light ; and I am convinced 

 from it, that if the art was under proper regulations, it 

 would be a mechanic way of implanting insensibh', in 

 minds not capable of receiving it so well by any other 

 rules, a sense of good-breeding and virtue." 



J. Cyprian Rust. 



Author of "A Collection of Texts of Scrij^iure." — 

 I should be greatly obliged if any of your corre- 

 spondents could inform me who was the author of 



* The statue of Queen Anne, and the group of figures 

 surrounding it, another of Bird's works, will be remem- 

 bered, not for the excellence of the sculpture, but as 

 having called forth the fine irony of Garth. 



t Aug. 25, 1712. I am not certain whether the book 

 was 8vo. or 12nio. 



