20 HERSCHEL AND HIS WORK 



who helped him to make it, was the scapegrace, 

 Dietrich. 1 Family histories are strange things ! And 

 yet Caroline at seventy-eight years of age says to 

 her nephew, " Whoever says too much of me says 

 too little of your father! and can only cause me 

 uneasiness," while Dietrich never believed he got 

 even fair play for himself from parent, brother, or 

 sister. 



1 See William Herscbel's will, Gentleman's Magazine, vol. xcii. 

 Dietrich got 2000, but Alexander and Caroline got 100 a year each. 

 As things went in those days, the undeserving fared far better than the 

 really deserving. 



