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He appears to have early had a passionate fondness for , deterht music by an oboe-player in the royal band, and he also learned the violin At the age of twenty-one he studied music for a year under the Cappelust, 1731, he becaust, 1732, he married ANNA ILSE MORITZEN She appears to have been a careful and busy wife and mother, possessed of no special faculties which would lead us to attribute to her care any great part of the abilities of her son

She could not herself write the letters which she sent to her husband during his absences with his regiment It was her firm belief that the separations and so; and while she could not hinder the education of the sons of the fa French and dancing It is but just to say that the useful acco, and the care of a household, were thoroughly taught by her to her two daughters The father, ISAAC, appears to have been of a different mould, and to him, no doubt, the chief intellectual characteristics of the faed hiiment, but his hand appears to have been always present, s his sons to such learning and improvement as was to be had

His health was seriously injured by the exposures of the cans, and he was left, after the Seven Years' War, with a broken constitution

After his final return hoives this record of hi hout half the nightWithcreature of between four and five years old--he was veryof his arrival at home]

before he went to rest, the Adempken (a little violin) was taken fro, and the daily lessons immediately commencedI 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 froea few acquaintances, whilst his afternoon hours generally were taken up in giving lessons to soladly saved hireat pleasure in seeing DIETRICH'S i as he was, and of the inable, was always ready to receive his lessons, leaving his little coo to his father, as so pleased with his performances that heplaced on a table before a crowded company, for which he was very lish 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, forme sometimes a lesson before the instru with DIETRICH, for I never wasand listening all the while”

Here, as in all her writing, CAROLINA is simple, true, direct to aardness, 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 the Guard, by whom she had children Five of her sons were afterwards land, where they obtained places through the influence of WILLIAM

2 HENRY ANTON JACOB; born 1734, November 20

4 FREDERIC WILLIAM (the astronomer) born 1738, November 15

6 JOHN ALEXANDER; born 1745, November 13

8 CAROLINA LUCRETIA; born 1750, March 16

10 DIETRICH; born 1755, Septeures to us are WILLIAM, ALEXANDER, and CAROLINA

JACOB was organist at the Garrison Church of Hanover in 1753, a member of the Guards' band in 1755, and first violin in the Hanover Court Orchestra in 1759 Afterwards he joined his brother WILLIAM in Bath, but again returned to Hanover In 1771 he published in Amsterdam his Opus I, a set of six quartettes, and later, in London, he published two symphonies and six trios He appears to have been a clever er brother WILLIAM are full of discussion on points of musical coest brother, shared in the musical abilities of his family, and when only fifteen years old was so far advanced as to be able to supply his brother JACOB'S place in the Court Orchestra, and to give his lessons to private pupils There is no one of the fahter, e do not know to have possessed marked ability in enerations

In the letters of Chevalier BUNSEN,[2] he describes hter of WILLIAM HERSCHEL, who, he says, ”is a enius”

Three members of the faroup which was inseparable for ress of the lives of ALEXANDER and CAROLINA was detery and efforts of WILLIAM, these two lent hiely different It is necessary to understand a little better the early life of all three

The sons of the HERSCHEL faarrison school in Hanover until they were about fourteen years old They were taught the ordinary rudie--to read, to write, to cipher--and a knowledge of French and English was added WILLIAM especially distinguished hi French very rapidly, and studying Latin and arithmetic with his master out of hours The household life seeent, especially during the presence of the father, who took a great delight in the rapid progress of all his sons in ed them with his co on all intellectual subjects

From the _Mee of this early life, we take the following paragraph:

”My brothers were often introduced as solo performers and assistants in the orchestra of the court, and I re to sleep by the lively criticis from a concert, or by conversations on philosophical subjects, which lasted frequently till , in which my father was a lively partaker and assistant ofself-made instruht listen to their ani reenerally their conversation would branch out on philosophical subjects, when ued with such warmth that my mother's interference became necessary, when the names LEIBNITZ, NEWTON, and EULER sounded rather too loud for the repose of her little ones, who ought to be in school by seven in theto their own room, where they shared the sareat deal to say; and frequently it happened that when he stopped for an assent or reply, he found his hearer was gone to sleep, and I suppose it was not till then that he bethought himself to do the same

”The recollection of these happy scenes confirms me in the belief, that had my brother WILLIAM not then been interrupted in his philosophical pursuits, we should have had reat ade of that science; for I reht, into the street, to make me acquainted with several of theat a comet which was then visible And I well reht he used to assist my brother WILLIAM in his various contrivances in the pursuit of his philosophical studies, alobe, upon which the equator and ecliptic were engraved by my brother”