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markably good likeness, and slightly tinted. I applied 

 to it a ver}' powerful magnifying glass of ^ inch focus, 

 with the sole view of seeing the features magnified, and 

 rendered more distinct. But, to my astonishment, I found 

 that precisely the effect of the stereoscope was immediately 

 produced. The face became plump, and came out in 

 strong relief, the eyes were brilliant and natural, the 

 mouth hollow, and the whole figure precisely like an image 

 in wax-work. I tried a similar experiment on photo- 

 graphs on metallic plates and on paper, but no such effect 

 was produced ; only those on glass came out with the 

 effect of the stereoscope. 1 should be glad to know if this 

 is a known fact ; and how it is to be accounted for. 



F. C. H, 



S&.eplitS ta Minav cauwiei. 



Augustine's " Sermons " (2"'^ S. Hi. 206.) — 

 Your correspondent Lethbediensis is in doubt as 

 to the meaning of the two verses — 



" Crede mihi dicas auratum jure beatum 

 Solem, qui talem presserat sere librum." 



Do they not imply that the book was " Ym- 

 printed atte y* golden sunne ? " 



With regard to the two following lines, Query, 

 should not the ille, which has slipped into the 

 fourth line, be relegated to the end of the third ? 

 This would rectify the couplet, which, as it stands, 

 is unmetrical. Anon. 



John Locke and Freemasonry (2"^ S. ii. 429.) — 

 If G. N. will consult an able article on Rosicru- 

 cianism and Freemasonry in the second volume of 

 Soane's New Curiosities of Literature, I think he 

 will find conclusive evidence that the letter he 

 cites as being written by Locke was a forgery, or, 

 to use Mr. Soane's own words, " a clumsy fabrica- 

 tion." That gentleman, after quoting it at length, 

 makes the following observations : 



" The first thing that must strike every one upon read- 

 ing this paper is the want of all those clear and positive 

 landmarlis which are usually supposed to confer authen- 

 ticity. There is no name of the brother in whose desk it 

 was discovered, no name of the nobleman to whom it is 

 addressed, no name of the person bj' whose aid Locke is 

 said to have found it, no explanation of the means by 

 which it made its way into Germany, nor is any reference 

 given that may enable us to trace out the original MS. in 

 the Bodleian." 



Mr. Soane assigns many other reasons for com- 

 ing to the conclusion he has done respecting the 

 authenticity of the letter in question ; they are, 

 however, too long to quote, but I would refer G. N. 

 to the article itself, which will fully repay him for 

 the trouble of perusal. T. C. S. 



French Author and the Rabbinical Writers (2""> S. 

 ii. 410.) — 



" II ^toit non seulement d^ffendu aux Juift, d'en manger 

 la chair du Pourceau, mais la pluspart se fasoient un si 

 grand scruple de le nommer, que pour chazir, ils disoient, 

 une autre chose, pour signifier abominable : et quand les rab- 

 bins ont avance que, celui qui tombe dans u7ie autre chose, 

 est en danger d'une autre chose, ils ont entendu que celui 



qui mange la chair du Pourceau est en danger d'en avoir 

 la lepre." — Cheorceana, torn. ii. p. 299. Amsterdam, 1700. 



This does not exactly answer Mb. Moore's 

 query, but is so near that I think it likely to have 

 suggested the passage in his sermon, and that 

 Chevreau is the French author, especially as more 

 than is worth transcribing is said of Baal-Peor, 

 torn. i. p. 406. H. B. C. 



John Weaver (2°'^ S. iii. 89.) — This eminent 

 dancing-master was the son of a Mr. Weaver, whom 

 the Duke of Ormond, then Chancellor of Oxford, 

 licensed in 1676 to exercise the same profession 

 within that university. John Weaver was resi- 

 dent at Shrewsbury when, in 1712, he announced 

 in The Spectator his intention of publishing his 

 Essay towards an History of Dancing. This 

 work, which appeared in the same year (8vo. 

 pp. 172.) displays considerable reading and good 

 sense on a subject to which they have not gene- 

 rally been thought applicable. Steele introduces 

 Weaver's letter, above mentioned, with some pre- 

 fatory observations, and returns to the subject in 

 No. 466. 



Weaver published his Anatomical and Mechani- 

 cal Lectures upon Dancing in 1721 (8vo. pp. 156.) ; 

 and from the dedication it appears that they were 

 read " at the Academy in Chancei'y Lane." Both 

 works ai'e dedicated to Mr. Caverley, an eminent 

 dancing-master and " keeper of a boarding school 

 for young ladies " in Queen Square. 



Tradition gives W^eaver the credit of being the 

 first to introduce pantomimes into England ; and 

 he has an interesting chapter " of the mimes and 

 pantomimes " in his first publication. But we are 

 not to understand by " pantomimes " the harle- 

 quin entertainments of the present day. What 

 the author meant was what we now call ballets, 

 or, as he terms them, " scenical dancing," i.e. re- 

 presentations of historical incidents by graceful 

 motion. Amongst these ballets were The Loves 

 of Mars and Venus, 1717 ; Orpheus and Euridice, 

 1718; Perseus and Andromeda, 1728; The Judg- 

 ment of Paris, 1732, &c. The last named was 

 performed by the author's pupils "in the great 

 room over the Market-house," Shrewsbury, in the 

 year 1750. 



John Weaver died Sept. 28, 1760, and was 

 buried in St. Chad's Church, Shrewsbury. 



Edward F. KiMBAUtt. 



Meaning of " Conversation " (2°'' S. iii. 252.) — 

 PaoFESsoB De Morgan's Query as to the general 

 meaning of this word in 1712, will doubtless be 

 answered by many English scholars. Our best 

 lexicographer, Dr. Richardson, cites but one au- 

 thority of the period — Strype; who, in his Eccle- 

 siastical Memorials (published in 1721), thus 

 speaks of Haddon and Martyr, who flourished 

 under Edw. VL : — 



" So wise and usefull was the conversation of him and 



