e campaigns,
and he was left, after the Seven Years' War, with a broken constitution.

After his final return home, in 1760, his daughter gives this record of
him--

"Copying music employed every vacant moment, even sometimes
throughout half the night. . . . With my brother [DIETRICH]--now a
little engaging creature of between four and five years old--he was
very much pleased, and [on the first evening of his arrival at home]
before he went to rest, the Adempken (a little violin) was taken
from the shelf and newly strung, and the daily lessons immediately
commenced. . . . I do not recollect that he ever desired any other
society than what he had opportunities of enjoying in many of the
parties where he was introduced by his profession, though far from
being of a morose disposition; he would frequently encourage my
mother in keeping up a social intercourse among a few acquaintances,
whilst his afternoon hours generally were taken up in giving lessons
to some scholars at home, who gladly saved him the troublesome
exertion of walking. . . . He also found great pleasure in seeing
DIETRICH'S improvement, who, young as he was, and of the most lively
temper imaginable, was always ready to receive his lessons, leaving
his little companions with the greatest cheerfulness to go to his
father, who was so pleased with his performances that he made him
play a solo on the Adempken in RAKE'S concert, being placed on a
table before a crowded company, for which he was very much applauded
and caressed, particularly by an English lady, who put a gold coin
in his little pocket.

"It was not long before my father had as many scholars as he could
find time to attend. And when they assembled at my father's to make
little concerts, I was frequently called to join the second violin
in an overture, for my father found pleasure in giving me sometimes
a lesson before the instruments were laid by, after practising with
DIETRICH, for I never was missing at those hours, sitting in a
corner with my knitting and listening all the while."

Here, as in all her writing, CAROLINA is simple, true, direct to
awkwardness, and unconsciously pathetic even in joy.

The family of ISAAC and ANNA HERSCHEL consisted of ten children. Six of
these lived to adult age. They were:

1. SOPHIA ELIZABETH; born 1733, married GRIESBACH, a musician in t