“You know,” he said, “I dislike music. I don’t know what people mean in admiring it. I am very stupid, tone-deaf, as others are colour-blind. But,” he added, with some warmth, “to-night, when from a distance I heard you singing that song, I had an inkling of what people mean by music. Something came over me which I had never felt before; or, yes, I have felt it once before in my life.” Jenny Lind was all attention. “Some years ago,” he continued, “I was at Vienna, and one evening there was a tattoo before the palace performed by four hundred drummers. I felt shaken, and to-night while listening to your singing, the same feeling came over me. I felt deeply moved.” “Dear man,” Jenny Lind used to say, when she told this story, “I know he meant well, and a more honest compliment I never received in all my life.” BAD TEMPER. “Of all bad things by which mankind are cursed Their own bad temper surely is the worst.” _Cumberland._ ANSWER TO DOUBLE ACROSTIC I. (p. 364). 1. O a s i S 2. B a l A 3. E lectri C 4. D u r b a R 5. I lluminat I (a) 6. E thelwol F (b) 7. N a n c I (c) 8. C ambri C (d) 9. E uphrosyn E (e) Obedience. Sacrifice. (a) A secret society founded in 1776 by Adam Weishaupt at Ingolstadt, Bavaria, for mutual assistance in attaining higher morality and virtue. It was suppressed by the Bavarian Government in 1784. (b) The son of Egbert, and father of Alfred the Great. (c) Charles the Bold, Duke of Burgundy, besieged Nanci in 1476; but he was defeated and killed. (d) So called from being made first at Cambray. (e) One of the three Graces, or Charities. BOOKS BEFORE TRAVEL. BY DORA DE BLAQUIÈRE. PART I.