Sir John is a better listener than any man I have met in England.

He joins in all the chit-chat, is one of the domestic circle, and tells funny little anecdotes.

(So do Whewell and Airy.) The Herschels know Abbot Lawrence and Edward Everett--and everywhere these two have left a good impression.

But I am certainly mortified by anecdotes that I hear of "pushing" Americans.

Mrs .-- -- sought an introduction to Sir John Herschel to tell him about an abridgment of his Astronomy which she had made, and she intimated to him that in consequence of her abridgment his work was, or would be, much more widely known in America.