1 8 HERSCHEL AND HIS WORK 



turned 4-inch globe, upon winch t ho equator and eel ijt it- 

 were engraved." But it was from a passionate devotion 

 to music that the father loci. l.mir an<l money 



for his two sons. He seems just to have missul ili;it 

 aim with the flighty .lacoh; ' it is pardonable to doubt 

 that he could ever have attained it with the staid and 

 persevering William. Neither of tln-m had in him the 

 making of a Handel, who was then, and had long been, 

 the ornament of the English and Hanoverian court, 

 and of whom tin- aspiring father could not fail to be 

 always thinking. 



A greater check to progress than war or poverty 

 was the moth, is dislike of learning. She was 

 ivso lvr.1 that, in sjitr <f hT hushaml's wish to 

 educate Caroline, nothing should be taught the girl 

 but what might prove useful to her as a household 

 drudge. She would not allow her to learn French; 

 she relaxed so far as to send her for two or llm < 

 months to a sewing school to be taught to mak. house- 

 hold linen, to which the girl added, out of her own 

 ingenuity, the making of bags and sword-knots for h.-r 

 brothers' splendour at concerts, before she knew how 

 ake caps and furbelowa The mother made no 

 concealment of her reason for this unjust and narrow- 

 minded treatment of her daughter. Referring to later 

 troubles in which her own folly involved the family, 

 she laid the blann when- it had no right to li It 

 was her certain belief that William would have re- 

 turned to his country, and Jacob would not have 

 looked so high, if they had had a little less learning." 

 " There is a great simplicity in the character of this 

 u," the physician of George iv. wrote of tin 

 1 Barney, History of Music, iv. 603. Sec inf.-- 



