CAROLINE HERSCHEL.

FEW thoughtful minds have not, perhaps, been moved to wonder at the insensibility of mankind to the attractions of star-gazing. People are ready to sacrifice time, money, and health in search of pleasure and excitement, but how rare is it to find the pursuit of science taking the place of these, and such studies as that of astronomy occupying even the cultured and the leisurely? Yet, when we consider the marvellous beauty of the heavens at night, and the intense interest of the problems they open to us, we can but feel astonishment at an indifference so unaccountable and so widely spread. We have here, if