1 MARCH 1913, Page 17

JUMPING JOAN.

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—May I add yet one more note on the above P I was once told that when Handel was travelling in Switzerland he chanced to pass a country inn where music and dancing was going on. He stopped to listen, and carried away in his memory the tune which later on he adapted to " He shall feed His flock" in the "Messiah." The matter of tempo makes