LITTLE at St. Augustine, Florida. The repentant ones patron- 

 JOURNEYS ize it in Lent, the rest of the year it is closed. 



At Bath there was the Octagon Chapel with the best 

 pipe organ in England. Herschel played the organ 

 where he learned how nobody knew he himself did 

 not know. But playing musical instruments is a little 

 like learning a new language. A man who speaks three 

 languages can take a day off and learn a fourth almost 

 any time. Somebody has said that there is really only 

 one language, and most of us have only a dialect. 

 Acquire three languages and you perceive that there 

 is a universal basis upon which the various tongues 

 are built. 



Herschel could play the hautboy, the harpsichord and 

 the violin. The organ came easy. "When he played the 

 organ in the Chapel at Bath, fair ladies forgot the 

 Pump Room, and the gallants followed them natu- 

 rally. Herschel became the rage. He was a handsome 

 fellow, with a pride so supreme that it completed the 

 circle, and people called it humility. He talked but 

 little, and made himself scarce a point every genius 

 should ponder well. The disarming of the populace 

 confiscating canes, umbrellas and parasols before al- 

 lowing people to enter an art gallery is necessary; al- 

 though it is a peculiar comment on humanity to- 

 think people have a tendency to smite, punch, prod and 

 poke beautiful things. The same propensity manifests 

 itself in wishing to fumble a genius. Get your coarse 

 hands on Richard Mansfield if you can! Corral Maude 

 Adams hardly. To do big things, to create breaks 

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