though perhaps it partakes rather of a planetary nature, namely, that
"dark" body which continually eclipses Algol, and so causes the
temporary diminution of its light. As the sun rushes towards the
constellation of Lyra such an extinguished sun may chance to find itself
in his path; just as a derelict hulk may loom up out of the darkness
right beneath the bows of a vessel sailing the great ocean.

Unfortunately a collision between the sun and a body of this kind could
not occur with such merciful suddenness. A tedious warning of its
approach would be given from that region of the heavens whither our
system is known to be tending. As the dark object would become visible
only when sufficiently near our sun to be in some degree illuminated by
his rays, it might run the chance at first of being mistaken for a new
planet. If such a body were as large, for instance, as our own sun, it
should, according to Mr. Gore's calculations, reveal itself to the
telescope some fifteen years before the great catastrophe. Steadily its
disc would appear to enlarge, so that, about nine years after its
discovery, it would become visible to the naked eye. At length the
doomed inhabitants of the earth, paralysed with terror, would see their
relentless enemy shining like a second moon in the northern skies.
Rapidly increasing in apparent size, as the gravitational attractions of
the solar orb and of itself interacted more powerfully with diminishing
distance, it would at last draw quickly in towards the sun and disappear
in the glare.

It is impossible for us to conceive anything more terrible than these
closing days, for no menace of catastrophe which we can picture could
bear within it such a certainty of fulfilment. It appears, therefore,
useless to speculate on the probable actions of men in their now
terrestrial prison. Hope, which so far had buoyed them up in the direst
calamities, would here have no place. Humanity, in the fulness of its
strength, would await a wholesale execution from which there could be no
chance at all of a reprieve. Observations of the approaching body would
have enabled astronomers to calculate its path with great exactness, and
to predict the instant and character of the impact. Eight minutes after
the moment allotted for the collision the resulting tide of flame would
surge across the earth's orbit, and our globe would quickly pass away in
vapour.

And what then?

A nebula, no doubt; and after untold ages the formation possibly from it
of a new system, rising phoenix-like from the vast crematorium and
filling the place of the old one. A new central sun, perhaps, with its
attendant retinue of planets and satellites. And teeming life,
perchance, appearing once more in the fulness of time, when temperature
in one or other of these bodies had fallen within certain limits, and
other predisposing conditions had supervened.

  "The world's great age begins anew,
      The golden years return,
  The earth doth like a snake renew
      Her winter weeds outworn:
  Heaven smiles, and faiths and empires gleam
  Like wrecks of a dissolving dream.

  A brighter Hellas rears its mountains
      From waves serener far;
  A new Peneus rolls his fountains
      Against the morning star;
  Where fairer Tempes bloom, there sleep
  Young Cyclads on a sunnier deep.

  A loftier Argo cleaves the main,
      Fraught with a later prize;
  Another Orpheus sings again,
      And loves, and weeps, and dies;
  A new Ulysses leaves once more
  Calypso for his native shore.

Oh cease! must hate and death return?
    Cease! must men kill and die?
Cease! drain not to its dregs the urn
    Of bitter prophecy!
The world is weary of the past,--
Oh might it die or rest at last!"

[39] See his work, _La Fin du Monde_, wherein the various ways by which
our world may come to an end are dealt with at length, and in a
profoundly interesting manner.

INDEX

  Achromatic telescope, 115, 116

  Adams, 24, 236, 243

  Aerial telescopes, 110, 111

  Agathocles, Eclipse of, 85

  Agrippa, Camillus, 44

  Ahaz, dial of, 85

  Air, 166

  Airy, Sir G.B., 92

  Al gûl, 307

  Al Sufi, 284, 290, 296, 315

  Alcor, 294

  Alcyone, 284

  Aldebaran, 103, 288, 290, 297

  Algol, 307, 309-310, 312, 323, 347

  Alpha, Centauri, 52-53, 280, 298-299, 304, 320

  Alpha Crucis, 298

  Alps, Lunar, 200

  Altair, 295

  Altitude of objects in sky, 196

  Aluminium, 145

  Amos viii. 9, 85

  Anderson, T.D., 311-312

  Andromeda (constellation), 279, 314;
    Great Nebula in, 314, 316

  Andromedid meteors, 272

  Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, 87-88

  Anighito meteorite, 277

  Annular eclipse, 65-68, 80, 92, 99

  Annular Nebula in Lyra, 315-316

  Annulus, 68

  Ansæ, 242-243

  Anticipation in discovery, 236-237

  Apennines, Lunar, 200

  Aphelion, 274

  Apparent enlargement of celestial objects, 192-196

  Apparent size of celestial objects deceptive, 196, 294

  Apparent sizes of sun and moon, variations in, 67, 80, 178

  Aquila (constellation), 295

  Arabian astronomers, 107, 307

  Arago, 92, 257

  Arc, degrees minutes and seconds of, 60

  Arcturus, 280, 282, 290, 295

  Argelander, 290

  Argo (constellation), 298

  Aristarchus of Samos, 171

  Aristarchus (lunar crater), 205

  Aristophanes, 101

  Aristotle, 161, 173, 185

  Arrhenius 222, 253-254

  Assyrian tablet, 84

  Asteroidal zone, analogy of, to Saturn's rings, 238

  Asteroids (or minor planets), 30-31, 225-228, 336;
    discovery of the, 23, 244;
    Wolf's method of discovering, 226-227

  Astrology, 56

  _Astronomical Essays_, 63, 337

  Astronomical Society, Royal, 144

  _Astronomy, Manual of_, 166

  Atlantic Ocean, parallelism of opposite shores, 340-341

  Atlas, the Titan, 18

  Atmosphere, absorption by earth's, 129-130;
    ascertainment of, by spectroscope, 124-125, 212;
    height of earth's, 167, 267;
    of asteroids, 226;
    of earth, 129, 130, 166-169, 218, 222, 267, 346;
    of Mars, 156, 212, 216;
    of Mercury, 156;
    of moon, 70-71, 156, 201-203;
    of Jupiter, 231;
    of planets, 125;
    of Saturn's rings, 239

  "Atmosphere" of the stars, 331

  Atmospheric layer and "glass-house" compared, 167, 203

  August Meteors (Perseids), 270

  Auriga (constellation), 294-296, 306, 311;
    New Star in, 311

  Aurigæ, [b] (Beta), 294, 297, 304

  Aurora Borealis, 141, 143, 259

  Australia, suggested origin of, 340

  Axis, 29-30;
    of earth, 163, 180;
    small movement of earth's, 180-181

  Babylonian tablet, 84

  Babylonian idea of the moon, 185

  Bacon, Roger, 108

  Bacubirito meteorite, 277

  Bagdad, 107

  Baily, Francis, 92

  "Baily's Beads," 69, 70, 91-92, 154

  Bailly (lunar crater), 199

  Ball, Sir Robert, 271

  Barnard, E.E., 31, 224, 232-234, 237, 258

  "Bay of Rainbows," 197

  Bayer's classification of stars, 289, 291-292

  Bayeux Tapestry, 263

  Bear, Great (constellation). _See_ Ursa Major;
    Little, _see_ Ursa Minor

  Beehive (Præsepe), 307

  Beer, 206

  Belopolsky, 304

  "Belt" of Orion, 297

  Belt theory of Milky Way, 321

  Belts of Jupiter, 230

  Bergstrand, 314

  Berlin star chart, 244

  Bessel, 173, 280, 305

  Beta ([b]) Lyræ, 307

  Beta ([b]) Persei. _See_ Algol

  Betelgeux, 297

  Bible, eclipses in, 85

  Biela's Comet, 256-257, 272-273, 345

  Bielids, 270, 272-273

  Billion, 51-52

  Binary stars, spectroscopic, 301-306, 309;
    visual, 300, 303-306

  "Black Drop," 152-154

  "Black Hour," 89

  "Black Saturday," 89

  Blood, moon in eclipse like, 102

  Blue (rays of light), 121, 130

  Bode's Law, 22-23, 244-245

  Bolometer, 127

  Bond, G.P., 236, 257

  Bonpland, 270

  Boötes (constellation), 295, 314

  Bradley, 111

  Brahe, Tycho, 290, 311

  Brédikhine's theory of comets' tails, 253-254, 256

  Bright eclipses of moon, 65, 102

  British Association for the Advancement of Science, 318

  _British Astronomical Association, Journal of_, 194

  British Museum, 84

  Bull (constellation). _See_ Taurus;
    "Eye" of the, 297;
    "Head" of the, 297

  Burgos, 98

  Busch, 93

  Cæsar, Julius, 85, 110, 180, 259, 262, 291, 293

  Calcium, 138, 145

  Callisto, 233-234

  Cambridge, 24, 91, 119, 243

  Campbell, 305

  Canali, 214

  "Canals" of Mars, 214-222, 224-225

  Cancer (constellation), 307

  Canes Venatici (constellation), 306, 314

  Canis Major (constellation), 289, 296-297;
    Minor, 296-297

  Canopus, 285, 298-299, 320

  Capella, 280, 282, 290, 294, 297, 303, 313

  Carbon, 145

  Carbon dioxide. _See_ Carbonic acid gas

  Carbonic acid gas, 166, 213, 221-222

  Carnegie Institution, Solar Observatory of, 118

  Cassegrainian telescope, 114, 118

  Cassini, J.D., 236, 240

  "Cassini's Division" in Saturn's ring, 236, 238

  Cassiopeia (constellation), 279, 294, 311, 314

  Cassiopeiæ, [ê] (Eta), 303

  Cassiopeia's Chair, 294

  Cassius, Dion, 86

  Castor, 282, 297, 304

  Catalogues of stars, 106, 290-291, 311

  Centaur. _See_ Centaurus

  Centaurus (constellation), 298, 306

  Centre of gravity, 42, 283-284, 324

  Ceres, diameter of, 30, 225

  Ceti, Omicron (or Mira), 307-308

  Cetus, or the Whale (constellation), 307

  Chaldean astronomers, 74, 76

  Challis, 243-244

  Chamberlin, 337

  "Chambers of the South," 299

  Chandler, 308

  Charles V., 261

  "Charles' Wain," 291

  Chemical rays, 127

  Chinese and eclipses, 83

  Chloride of sodium, 122

  Chlorine, 122, 145

  Christ, Birth of, 102

  Christian Era, first recorded solar eclipse in, 85

  Chromatic aberration, 110

  Chromosphere, 71-72, 93-94, 130-132, 138-139

  Circle, 171-173

  Clark, Alvan, & Sons, 117-118, 303

  Claudius, Emperor, 86

  Clavius (lunar crater), 199

  Clerk Maxwell, 237

  "Clouds" (of Aristophanes), 101

  Clustering power, 325

  Clusters of stars, 300, 306, 314, 328

  Coal Sacks. _See_ Holes in Milky Way

  Coelostat, 119

  Coggia's Comet, 254

  Colour, production of, in telescopes, 109-111, 115, 121

  Collision of comet with earth, 345-346;
    of dark star with sun, 346-348;
    of stars, 285, 312

  Columbus, 103

  Coma Berenices (constellation), 307, 316

  Comet, first discovery of by photography, 258;
    first orbit calculated, 255;
    first photograph of, 257-258;
    furthest distance seen, 258;
    passage of among satellites of Jupiter, 250;
    passage of earth and moon through tail of, 257, 346

  Comet of 1000 A.D., 262;
    1066, 262-264;
    1680, 255, 265;
    1811, 254-255;
    1861, 254, 257, 346;
    1881, 257-258;
    1882, 251, 258, 291;
    1889, 258;
    1907, 258

  Comets, 27-28, 58, Chaps. XIX. and XX., 345-346;
    ancient view of, 259-261;
    captured, 251-253;
    Chinese records of, 83-84;
    composition of, 252;
    contrasted with planets, 247;
    families of, 251-252, 256;
    meteor swarms and, 274;
    revealed by solar eclipses, 95-96;
    tails of, 141, 182, 248, 252-254

  Common, telescopes of Dr. A.A., 118

  Conjunction, 209

  Constellations, 105, 278-279, 285, 289

  Contraction theory of sun's heat, 128-129, 335

  Cook, Captain, 154

  Cooke, 118

  Copernican system, 20, 107, 149, 170-173, 279, 280

  Copernicus, 20, 108, 149, 158, 170-172, 236

  Copernicus (lunar crater), 200, 204

  Copper, 145

  Corder, H., 144

  Corona, 70-72, 90, 92-97, 132, 140-141, 270;
    earliest drawing of, 91;
    earliest employment of term, 90;
    earliest mention of, 86;
    earliest photograph of, 93;
    illumination given by, 71;
    possible change in shape of during eclipse, 96-98;
    structure of, 142-143;
    variations in shape of, 141

  Corona Borealis (constellation), 295

  Coronal matter, 142;
    streamers, 95-96, 141-143

  Coronium, 133, 142, 317

  Cotes, 91

  Coudé, equatorial, 119

  Cowell, P.H., 255, 264

  Crabtree, 152

  Crape ring of Saturn, 236-237

  Craterlets on Mars, 220

  Craters (ring-mountains) on moon, 197-205, 214, 340;
    suggested origin of, 203-204, 214

  Crawford, Earl of, 94

  Crecy, supposed eclipse at battle of, 88-89

  Crescent moon, 183, 185

  Crommelin, A.C.D., 255, 264

  Crossley Reflector, 118, 315-316

  Crown glass, 115

  Crucifixion, darkness of, 86

  Crucis, [a] (Alpha), 298

  Crux, or "Southern Cross" (constellation), 298-299, 323

  Cycle, sunspot, 136-137, 141, 143-144

  Cygni, 61, 173, 280

  Cygnus, or the Swan (constellation), 295, 325

  Daniel's Comet of 1897, 258

  Danzig, 111

  Dark Ages, 102, 107, 260

  Dark eclipses of moon, 65, 102-103

  Dark matter in space, 323

  Dark meteors, 275-276

  Dark stars, 309-310, 312, 323, 346-347

  "Darkness behind the stars," 325

  Darwin, Sir G.H., 339

  Davis, 94

  Dawes, 236

  Dearborn Observatory, 303

  Death from fright at eclipse, 73

  Debonnaire, Louis le, 88, 261

  Deimos, 223

  Deity, symbol of the, 87

  "Demon star." _See_ Algol

  Denebola, 296

  Denning, W.F., 269

  Densities of sun and planets, 39

  Density, 38

  Deslandres, 140

  Diameters of sun and planets, 31

  Disappearance of moon in lunar eclipse, 65, 102-103

  Disc, 60

  "Disc" theory. _See_ "Grindstone" theory

  Discoveries, independent, 236

  Discovery, anticipation in, 236-237;
    indirect methods of, 120

  "Dipper," the, 291;
    the "Little," 294

  Distance of a celestial body, how ascertained, 56-58;
    of sun from earth, how determined, 151, 211

  Distances of planets from sun, 47

  Distances of sun and moon, relative, 68

  Dog, the Greater. _See_ Canis Major;
    the Lesser, _see_ Canis Minor

  "Dog Star," 289, 297

  Dollond, John, 115-116

  Donati's Comet, 254, 257

  Doppler's method, 125, 136, 282, 301-302

  Dorpat, 117

  Double canals of Mars, 214-215, 218-220

  Double planet, earth and moon a, 189

  Double stars, 300

  Douglass, 233

  "Dreams, Lake of," 197

  Dumb-bell Nebula, 316

  Earth, 20, 22, 31, 39, 48, 64, Chap. XV., 267;
    cooling of, 343;
    diameter of, 31;
    interior of, 166;
    mean distance of from sun, 47;
    rigidity of, 181;
    rotation of, 30, 33, 161-165, 170;
    shape of, 165;
    "tail" to, 182

  "Earthlight," or "Earthshine," 186

  Earth's axis, Precessional movement of, 175-177, 295, 298-299

  Earth's shadow, circular shape of, 64, 160

  Eclipse, 61

  Eclipse knowledge, delay of, 74

  Eclipse party, work of, 73

  Eclipse of sun, advance of shadow in total, 69;
    animal and plant life during, 71;
    earliest record of total, 84;
    description of total, 69-73;
    duration of total, 69, 72;
    importance of total, 68

  Eclipses, ascertainment of dates of past, 74;
    experience a necessity in solar, 73-74;
    of moon, 63-65, Chap. IX., 203;
    photography in, 93;
    prediction of future, 74;
    recurrence of, 74-80

  Eclipses of sun, 25, 65-74, Chap. VIII., 201-202, 234;
    1612 A.D., 90;
    1715, 88, 91;
    1724, 88, 91;
    1836, 92;
    1842, 92-93;
    1851, 81, 93;
    1868, 93;
    1870, 94;
    1871, 94;
    1878, 95;
    1882, 95;
    1883, 95-96;
    1893, 95-96;
    1896, 96, 99;
    1898, 96, 98;
    1900, 97;
    1905, 75-76, 80-81, 97-98;
    1907, 98;
    1908, 98;
    1914, 99;
    1927, 92, 99-100

  _Eclipses, Past and Future_, 340

  Egenitis, 272

  Electric furnace, 128

  Electric light, spectrum of, 122

  Elements composing sun, 144-145

  Ellipses, 32, 66, 172-173, 177-178

  Elliptic orbit, 66, 177

  Ellipticity, 32

  Elongation, Eastern, 147, 149;
    Western, 147, 149

  Encke's Comet, 253, 256

  "End of the World," 342

  England, solar eclipses visible in, 87-88, 91-92

  Epsilon, ([e]) Lyræ, 302

  Equator, 48

  Equatorial telescope, 226

  Equinoxes. _See_ Precession of

  Eros, 210-211, 223, 226-227;
    discovery of, 24, 210, 227;
    importance of, 211;
    orbit of, 32, 37, 210, 336

  Eruptive prominences, 139

  _Esclistre_, 89

  Ether, 322-323, 331-332

  Europa, 233, 235

  Evans, J.E., 219

  Evening star, 149-150, 241

  Everest, Mount, 200

  Evershed, 182

  Eye-piece, 110

  Fabricius, 307

  Faculæ, 136, 143

  Fauth, 205

  Faye, 335

  _Fin du Monde_, 346

  First quarter, 183

  "Fixed stars," 280

  Flagstaff, 215-216, 220

  Flammarion, Camille, 346

  Flamsteed, 90

  "Flash spectrum," 137

  "Flat," 112

  Flint glass, 115

  Focus, 66, 177

  "Forty-foot Telescope," 115

  Foster, 102

  Fraunhofer, 117

  French Academy of Sciences, 115

  Froissart, 89

  "Full moon" of Laplace, 190

  Galaxy. _See_ Milky Way.

  Galilean telescope, 109

  Galileo, 55, 109, 172, 197, 206, 232-235, 242

  Galle, 24, 211, 244

  Ganymede, 233-234

  Gas light, spectrum of, 122

  Gegenschein, 181-182

  "Gem" of meteor ring, 271

  Gemini, or the Twins (constellation), 22, 296-297

  Geminorum, [z] (Zeta), 304

  Geometrical groupings of stars, 292

  "Giant" planet, 230, 238-239

  Gibbous, 183, 185

  Gill, Sir David, 211, 258, 291, 317-318

  Gold, 145

  Goodricke, 307

  Gore, J.E., 63, 285, 303, 307-308, 310, 323-324, 331, 337, 347

  Granulated structure of photosphere, 134

  Gravitation (or gravity), 39, 41-45, 128, 306

  Greek ideas, 18, 158, 161-162, 171, 186, 197

  Green (rays of light), 121

  Greenwich Observatory, 143-144, 232, 255, 303

  Gregorian telescope, 113-114

  Grimaldi (lunar crater), 199

  "Grindstone" theory, 319-322

  "Groombridge, 1830," 281-282, 326, 330

  Groups of stars, 306-307

  Grubb, Sir Howard, 118

  _Gulliver's Travels_, 224

  Hale, G.E., 119, 140

  Half moon, 183, 185

  Hall, Asaph, 223

  Hall, Chester Moor, 115

  Halley, Edmund, 91, 255, 264-265, 306

  Halley's Comet, 255, 264-265

  Haraden Hill, 91

  Harvard, 118, 302

  Harvest moon, 190-192

  Hawaii, 221

  Heat rays, 127

  Heidelberg, 226, 232

  Height of lunar mountains, how determined, 201

  Height of objects in sky, estimation of, 196

  Helium, 138, 145, 182

  Helmholtz, 128, 335

  Hercules (constellation), 295

  Herod the Great, 101-102

  Herodotus, 84

  Herschel, A.S., 269

  Herschel, Sir John, 92, 322

  Herschel, Sir William, 22, 36, 114-115, 204, 213, 235, 283, 292, 308,
    319-320, 326-328

  Herschelian telescope, 114, 119

  Hesper, 109

  Hesperus, 150

  Hevelius, 111

  Hezekiah, 85

  Hi, 83

  Hindoos, 18

  Hipparchus, 106, 177, 290, 311

  Ho, 83

  Holes in Milky Way, 321-323

  Holmes, Oliver Wendell, 213

  Homer, 223

  Horace, Odes of, 106

  Horizon, 159

  Horizontal eclipse, 169

  Horrox, 44, 151-152

  Hour Glass Sea, 212

  Huggins, Sir William, 94, 125, 317

  Humboldt, 270

  "Hunter's moon," 192

  Huyghens, 111-112, 240, 242-243

  Hyades, 296-297, 307

  Hydrocarbon gas, 254

  Hydrogen, 94, 131, 138, 140, 144, 156, 182, 254

  Ibrahim ben Ahmed, 270

  Ice-layer theory:
    Mars, 219;
    moon, 205, 219

  Illusion theory of Martian canals, 219

  Imbrium, Mare, 197

  Inclination of orbits, 36-37

  Indigo (rays of light), 121

  Inferior conjunction, 147, 149

  Inferior planets, 20, 22, Chap. XIV., 229

  Instruments, pre-telescopic, 106-107, 172

  International photographic survey of sky, 290-291

  Intra-Mercurial planet, 25-26

  _Introduction to Astronomy_, 31

  Inverted view in astronomical telescope, 116-117

  Io, 233-234

  Iridum, Sinus, 197

  Iron, 145, 254

  _Is Mars Habitable?_ 221

  Jansen, 108

  Janssen, 94, 236, 258

  Japetus, 240

  Jessenius, 89

  Job, Book of, 299

  Johnson, S.J., 103, 340

  Josephus, 101, 262

  Juno, 225

  Jupiter, 20, 22-23, 31, 34, 37, 42, 227-228, 230-236, 241, 272, 311;
    comet family of, 251-253, 256;
    discovery of eighth satellite, 26, 232;
    eclipse of, by satellite, 234;
    without satellites, 234-235

  Jupiter, satellites of, 26, 62, 108, 189, 232-235;
    their eclipses, 234-235;
    their occultations, 62, 234;
    their transits, 62, 234

  Kant, 334

  Kapteyn, 284, 313

  Keeler, 315, 337

  Kelvin, Lord, 129

  Kepler, 44, 152, 172, 237, 242, 245, 253, 311

  Kinetic theory, 156, 202, 212, 226, 231, 239, 336

  King, L.W., 84

  _Knowledge_, 87

  Labrador, 97

  Lacus Somniorum, 197

  "Lake of Dreams," 197

  Lalande, 244, 283

  Lampland, 215, 219

  Langley, 95, 127

  Laplace, 190, 333

  Laputa, 224

  Le Maire, 115

  Le Verrier, 24, 236, 243-244, 275

  Lead, 145

  Leibnitz Mountains (lunar), 200

  Leo (constellation), 270, 295-296

  Leonids, 270-272, 274-275

  Lescarbault, 25

  Lewis, T., 303

  Lexell's Comet, 250

  Lick Observatory, 31, 98, 117-118, 215, 232, 303, 305, 315;
    Great Telescope of, 117, 215, 237

  "Life" of an eclipse of the moon, 80;
    of the sun, 77-78

  Life on Mars, Lowell's views, 217-218;
    Pickering's, 221;
    Wallace's, 221-223

  Light, no extinction of, 322-324;
    rays of, 127;
    velocity of, 52, 235-236;
    white, 121

  "Light year," 53, 280

  Lindsay, Lord, 94

  Linné (lunar crater), 205

  Liouville, 190

  Lippershey, 108

  Liquid-filled lenses, 116

  _Locksley Hall_, 296;
    _Sixty Years After_, 109

  Lockyer, Sir Norman, 73, 94, 236, 335

  Loewy, 119, 206

  London, eclipses visible at, 87-88, 91-92

  Longfellow, 88

  Lowell Observatory, 215, 219, 233-234

  Lowell, Percival, 155, 212-213, 215-221

  Lucifer, 150

  Lynn, W.T., 219, 263

  Lyra (constellation), 177, 283, 294-295, 307, 315, 347

  Mädler, 206, 284

  Magellanic Clouds, 317

  Magnetism, disturbances of terrestrial, 143, 283

  Magnitudes of stars, 287-289

  Major planets, 229-230

  "Man in the Moon," 197

  _Manual of Astronomy_, 166

  Maps of the moon, 206

  Mare Imbrium, 197

  Mare Serenitatis, 205

  Mars, 20, 22-23, 31-32, 34, 37, 109, 155, 210-225, 234;
    compared with earth and moon, 221, 225;
    polar caps of, 212-214, 216;
    satellites of, 26, 223-224;
    temperature of, 213, 216, 221-222

  Mass, 38;
    of a star, how determined, 305

  Masses of celestial bodies, how ascertained, 42;
    of earth and moon compared, 42;
    of sun and planets compared, 39

  Maunder, E.W., 87, 143, 219

  Maunder, Mrs., E.W., 96, 144

  Maxwell, Clerk, 237

  Mayer, Tobias, 206, 283

  McClean, F.K., 98

  Mean distance, 46

  "Medicean Stars," 232

  Mediterranean, eclipse tracks across, 94, 97

  Melbourne telescope, 118

  Melotte, P., 232

  Mercator's Projection, 80-81

  Mercury (the metal), 145

  Mercury (the planet), 20, 22, 25-26, 31-32, 34, 37, Chap. XIV.;
    markings on, 156;
    possible planets within orbit of, 25-26;
    transit of, 62, 151, 154

  Metals in sun, 145

  Meteor swarms, 268-269, 271, 274-275

  Meteors, 28, 56, 167, 259, Chap. XXI.

  Meteors beyond earth's atmosphere, 275-276

  Meteorites, 276-277

  Meteoritic Hypothesis, 335

  Metius, Jacob, 108

  Michell, 283, 305

  Middle Ages, 102, 260, 264

  Middleburgh, 108

  Milky Way (or Galaxy), 285, 299, 311, 317, 319-327;
    penetration of, by photography, 325

  Million, 47, 51-52

  Minor planets. _See_ Asteroids.

  Mira Ceti, 307-308

  "Mirk Monday," 89

  Mirror (speculum), 111, 116

  Mizar, 294, 302

  Monck, W.H.S., 275

  Mongol Emperors of India, 107

  Moon, 26, Chap. XVI.;
    appearance of, in lunar eclipse, 65, 102-103;
    diameter of, 189;
    distance of, how ascertained, 58;
    distance of, from earth, 48;
    full, 63, 86, 149, 184, 189, 190, 206;
    mass of, 200, 202;
    mountains on, 197-205;
    how their height is determined, 201;
    movement of, 40-42;
    new, 86, 149, 183, 185;
    origin of, 339-341;
    plane of orbit of, 63;
    possible changes on, 204-205, 221;
    "seas" of, 197, 206;
    smallest detail visible on, 207;
    volume of, 200

  Morning star, 149-150, 241

  Moulton, F.R., 31, 118, 128, 302, 335, 337

  Moye, 154

  Multiple stars, 300

  Musa-ben-Shakir, 44

  Mythology, 105

  Neap-tides, 179

  Nebulæ, 314-318, 328, 335, 345;
    evolution of stars from, 317-318

  Nebular Hypothesis of Laplace, 333-338

  Nebular hypotheses, Chap. XXVII.

  Nebulium, 317

  Neison, 206

  Neptune, 20, 25, 31, 34, 37, 243-246, 249, 252, 274, 304;
    discovery of, 23-24, 94, 210, 236, 243-244;
    Lalande and, 244;
    possible planets beyond, 25, 252;
    satellite of, 26, 245;
    "year" in, 35-36

  "New" (or temporary), stars, 310-314

  Newcomb, Simon, 181, 267, 281, 324, 326-327, 329

  Newton, Sir Isaac, 40, 44, 91, 111-113, 115, 165, 172, 237, 255

  Newtonian telescope, 112, 114, 116, 119

  Nineveh Eclipse, 84-85

  Nitrogen, 145, 156, 166, 346

  Northern Crown, 295

  Nova Aurigæ, 311

  Nova Persei, 312-314

  Novæ. _See_ New (or temporary) stars

  Nubeculæ, 317

  "Oases" of Mars, 216, 220

  Object-glass, 109

  Oblate spheroid, 165

  Occultation, 61-62, 202, 296

  _Olaf, Saga of King_, 88

  Olbers, 227, 253, 256, 271

  "Old moon in new moon's arms," 185

  Olmsted, 271

  Omicron (or "Mira") Ceti, 307-308

  Opposition, 209

  "Optick tube," 108-109, 232

  Orange (rays of light), 121

  Orbit of moon, plane of, 63

  Orbits, 32, 36-37, 66, 150, 157

  Oriental astronomy, 107

  Orion (constellation), 195, 279, 296-297, 316;
    Great Nebula in, 316, 328

  Oxford, 139

  Oxygen, 145, 156, 166, 346

  Pacific Ocean, origin of moon in, 339

  Palitzch, 255

  Pallas, 225, 227

  Parallax, 57, 173, 280, 305, 320, 326

  Paré, Ambrose, 264-265

  Peal, S.E., 205

  Peary, 277

  Pegasus (constellation), 306

  Penumbra of sunspot, 135

  Perennial full moon of Laplace, 190

  Pericles, 84

  Perrine, C.D., 232-233, 315

  Perseids, 270, 273-275

  Perseus (constellation), 273, 279, 307, 312

  Phases of an inferior planet, 149, 160;
    of the moon, 149, 160, 183-185

  Phlegon, Eclipse of, 85-86

  Phobos, 223

  Phoebe, retrograde motion of, 240, 250, 336

  Phosphorescent glow in sky, 323

  Phosphorus (Venus), 150

  Photographic survey of sky, international, 290-291

  Photosphere, 130-131, 134

  Piazzi, 23

  Pickering, E.C., 302

  Pickering, W.H., 199, 205-206, 220-221, 240, 339-341

  Pictor, "runaway star" in constellation of, 281-282, 320, 330

  Plane of orbit, 36, 150

  Planetary nebulæ, 245, 315

  _Planetary and Stellar Studies_, 331

  Planetesimal hypothesis, 337-338

  Planetoids. _See_ Asteroids

  Planets, classification of, 229;
    contrasted with comets, 247;
    in Ptolemaic scheme, 171;
    relative distances of, from sun, 31-32

  Plato (lunar crater), 198

  Pleiades, 284, 296-297, 307

  Pliny, 169, 260

  Plough, 284, 291-296, 302

  Plutarch, 86, 89, 169, 181

  "Pointers," 292

  Polaris. _See_ Pole Star

  Pole of earth, Precessional movement of, 176-177, 295, 298-299

  Pole Star, 33, 163, 177, 292-296, 300-301

  Poles, 30, 163-164;
    of earth, speed of point at, 164

  Pollux, 282, 297

  Posidonius, 186

  Powell, Sir George Baden, 96

  Præsepe (the Beehive), 307

  Precession of the Equinoxes, 177, 295, 298-299

  Pre-telescopic notions, 55

  Primaries, 26

  _Princess, The_ (Tennyson), 334

  Princeton Observatory, 258

  Prism, 121

  Prismatic colours, 111, 121

  Procyon, 284, 290, 297, 303

  Prominences, Solar, 72, 93, 131, 139-140, 143;
    first observation of, with spectroscope, 94, 140, 236

  Proper motions of stars, 126, 281-285, 326, 329-330

  Ptolemæus (lunar crater), 198-199, 204

  Ptolemaic idea, 319;
    system, 18, 19, 158, 171-172

  Ptolemy, 18, 101, 171, 290, 296

  Puiseux, P., 206

  Pulkowa telescope, 117

  Puppis, V., 310

  Quiescent prominences, 139

  Radcliffe Observer, 139

  "Radiant," or radiant point, 269

  Radiation from sun, 130, 134

  Radium, 129, 138

  Rainbow, 121

  "Rainbows, Bay of," 197

  Rambaut, A., 139

  Ramsay, Sir William, 138

  Rays (on moon), 204

  Recurrence of eclipses, 74-80

  Red (rays of light), 121, 125, 127, 130

  Red Spot, the Great, 230

  Reflecting telescope, 111-116;
    future of, 119

  Reflector. _See_ Reflecting telescope

  Refracting and reflecting telescopes contrasted, 118

  Refracting telescope, 109-111, 115-117;
    limits to size of, 119-120

  Refraction, 121, 168-169

  Refractor, _See_ Refracting telescope

  Regulus, 290, 296

  Retrograde motion of Phoebe, 240, 250, 336

  "Reversing Layer," 94, 130, 132, 137-138

  Revival of learning, 107

  Revolution, 30;
    of earth around sun, 170-173;
    periods of sun and planets, 35

  Riccioli, 198

  Rice-grain structure of photosphere, 134

  Rigel, 285, 297

  Rills (on moon), 204

  Ring-mountains of moon. _See_ Craters

  "Ring" nebulæ, 315, 337

  "Ring with wings," 87

  Rings of Saturn, 108, 236-239, 241-243, 334

  Ritchey, G.W., 118

  Roberts, A.W., 308, 310

  Roberts, Isaac, 325

  "Roche's limit," 238

  Roemer, 235

  Roman history, eclipses in, 85-86

  Romulus, 85

  Röntgen, 120

  Rosse, great telescope of Lord, 117, 314

  Rotation, 30;
    of earth, 33, 161-165, 170;
    of sun, 34, 125, 135-136, 231;
    periods of sun and planets, 35

  Royal Society of London, 90-91, 111

  Rubicon, Passage of the, 85

  "Runaway" stars, 281, 326, 330

  Sagittarius (constellation), 316

  Salt, spectrum of table, 122

  Samarcand, 107

  "Saros," Chaldean, 76-78, 84

  Satellites, 26-27, 37

  Saturn, 20, 22, 34, 37, 108, 236-243, 258;
    comet family of, 252;
    a puzzle to the early telescope observers, 241-243;
    retrograde motion of satellite Phoebe, 240, 250, 336;
    ring system of, 241;
    satellites of, 36, 239-240;
    shadows of planet on rings and of rings on planet, 237

  Schaeberle, 95-96, 303, 316

  Schiaparelli, 155, 214, 223

  Schickhard (lunar crater), 199

  Schmidt, 206

  Schönfeld, 290

  Schuster, 95

  Schwabe, 136

  Scotland, solar eclipses visible in, 89-90, 92

  Sea of Serenity, 205

  "Sea of Showers," 197

  "Seas" of moon, 197, 206

  Seasons on earth, 174-175;
    on Mars, 211

  Secondary bodies, 26

  Seneca, 95, 260

  _Septentriones_, 291

  Serenitatis, Mare, 205

  "Seven Stars," 291

  "Shadow Bands," 69

  Shadow of earth, circular shape of, 62-64

  Shadows on moon, inky blackness of, 202

  Shakespeare, 259, 293

  Sheepshanks Telescope, 119

  "Shining fluid" of Sir W. Herschel, 328

  "Shooting Stars." _See_ Meteors

  Short (of Edinburgh), 114

  "Showers, Sea of," 197

  Sickle of Leo, 270-271, 296

  Siderostat, 118

  Silver, 145

  Silvered mirrors for reflecting telescopes, 116

  Sinus Iridum, 197

  Sirius, 280, 282, 284-285, 288-290, 297, 303-304, 320;
    companion of, 303;
    stellar magnitude of, 289

  Size of celestial bodies, how ascertained, 59

  Skeleton telescopes, 110

  Sky, international photographic survey of, 290-291;
    light of the, 323

  Slipher, E.C., 213, 222

  Smithsonian Institution of Washington, 98

  Snow on Mars, 213

  Sodium, 122, 124, 254

  Sohag, 95

  Solar system, 20-21, 29-31;
    centre of gravity of, 42;
    decay and death of, 344

  Somniorum, Lacus, 197

  Sound, 125, 166, 331

  South pole of heavens, 163, 285, 298-299

  Southern constellations, 298-299

  Southern Cross. _See_ Crux

  Space, 328

  Spain, early astronomy in, 107;
    eclipse tracks across 93, 97-98

  Spectroheliograph, 140

  Spectroscope, 120, 122, 124-125, 144-145, 212, 231;
    prominences first observed with, 94, 140, 236

  Spectrum of chromosphere, 132-133;
    of corona, 133;
    of photosphere, 132;
    of reversing layer, 132, 137;
    solar, 122-123, 127, 132

  Speculum, 111, 116;
    metal, 112

  Spherical bodies, 29

  Spherical shape of earth, proofs of, 158-161

  Spherical shapes of sun, planets, and satellites, 160

  Spiral nebulæ, 314-316, 337-338

  Spring balance, 166

  Spring tides, 192

  Spy-glass, 108

  "Square of the distance," 43-44

  Stannyan, Captain, 90

  Star, mass of, how determined, 305;
    parallax of, first ascertained, 173, 280

  Stars, the, 20, 124, 126, 278 _et seq._;
    brightness of, 287, 320;
    distances between, 326-327;
    distances of some, 173, 280, 320;
    diminution of, below twelfth magnitude, 324;
    evolution of, from nebulæ, 317-318;
    faintest magnitude of, 288;
    number of those visible altogether, 324;
    number of those visible to naked eye, 288

  "Steam cracks," 221

  Steinheil, 118

  Stellar system, estimated extent of, 325-327;
    an organised whole, 327;
    limited extent of, 322-328, 330;
    possible disintegration of, 329

  Stiklastad, eclipse of, 88

  Stone Age, 285

  Stoney, G.J., 202, 222

  Stonyhurst Observatory, 100

  _Story of the Heavens_, 271

  Streams of stars, Kapteyn's two, 284

  Stroobant, 196

  Stukeley, 91

  Sulphur, 145

  Summer, 175, 178

  Sun, Chaps XII. and XIII.;
    as a star, 124, 278, 289;
    as seen from Neptune, 246, 304;
    chemical composition of, 144-145;
    distance of, how ascertained, 151, 211;
    equator of, 135-136, 139;
    gravitation at surface of, 129, 138-139;
    growing cold of, 343-344;
    mean distance of, from earth, 47, 211;
    motion of, through space, 282-286, 326;
    not a solid body, 136;
    poles of, 136;
    radiations from, 130;
    revolution of earth around, 170-173;
    stellar magnitude of, 288-289;
    variation in distance of, 66, 178

  Sunspots, 34, 125, 134-137, 140-141, 143-144, 308;
    influence of earth on, 144

  Suns and possible systems, 50, 286

  Superior conjunction, 147-149

  Superior planets, 22, 146, 209-210, 229

  Swan (constellation). _See_ Cygnus

  Swift, Dean, 224

  "Sword" of Orion, 297, 316

  Syrtis Major. _See_ Hour Glass Sea

  "_Systematic_ Parallax," 326

  Systems, other possible, 50, 286

  Tails of comets, 182

  Tamerlane, 107

  Taurus (constellation), 103, 296-297, 307

  "Tears of St. Lawrence," 273

  Tebbutt's Comet, 257-258

  Telescope, 33, 55, 107-108, 149;
    first eclipse of moon seen through, 104;
    of sun, 90

  Telescopes, direct view reflecting, 114;
    gigantic, 111;
    great constructors of, 117-118;
    great modern, 117-118

  Tempel's Comet, 274

  Temperature on moon, 203;
    of sun, 128

  Temporary (or new) stars, 310-314

  Tennyson, Lord, 109, 296, 334

  Terrestrial planets, 229-230

  Terrestrial telescope, 117

  Thales, Eclipse of, 84

  Themis, 240

  "Tidal drag," 180, 188, 208, 344

  Tide areas, 179-180

  Tides, 178-180, 338-339

  _Time Machine_, 344

  Tin, 145

  Titan, 240

  Titius, 245

  Total phase, 71-72

  Totality, 72;
    track of, 66

  Trail of a minor planet, 226-227

  Transit, 62, 150-154;
    of Mercury, 62, 151, 154;
    of Venus, 62, 151-152, 154, 211

  Trifid Nebula, 316

  Triple stars, 300

  Tubeless telescopes, 110-111, 243

  Tubes used by ancients, 110

  Tuttle's Comet, 274

  Twilight, 167, 202

  Twinkling of stars, 168

  Twins (constellation). _See_ Gemini

  Tycho Brahe, 290, 311

  Tycho (lunar crater), 204

  Ulugh Beigh, 107

  Umbra of sunspot, 134-135

  Universe, early ideas concerning, 17-18, 158, 177, 342

  Universes, possibility of other, 330-331

  Uranus, 22-24, 31, 210, 243, 245, 275;
    comet family of, 252;
    discovery of, 22, 210, 243;
    rotation period of 34, 245;
    satellites of, 26, 245;
    "year" in, 35-36

  Ursa Major (constellation), 279, 281, 291, 295, 314;
    minor, 177, 279, 293-294

  Ursæ Majoris, ([z]) Zeta. _See_ Mizar

  Variable stars, 307-310

  Variations in apparent sizes of sun and moon, 67, 80, 178

  Vault, shape of the celestial, 194-196

  Vega, 177, 278, 280, 282-283, 285, 290, 294, 302, 307, 323

  Vegetation on Mars, 221, 217-218;
    on moon, 205

  Venus, 20, 22, 31, 71, 90, 108-109, 111, Chap. XIV., 246, 311;
    rotation period of, 34, 155

  Very, F.W., 314

  Vesta, 225, 227

  Violet (rays of light), 121-122, 125

  Virgil, 19

  Volcanic theory of lunar craters, 203-204, 214

  Volume, 38

  Volumes of sun and planets compared, 38-39

  "Vulcan," 25

  Wallace, A.R., on Mars, 220-223

  Water, lack of, on moon, 201-202

  Water vapour, 202, 213, 222

  Wargentin, 103

  Warner and Swasey Co., 117

  Weather, moon and, 206-207

  Weathering, 202

  Webb, Rev. T.W., 204

  Weight, 43, 165-166

  Wells, H.G., 344

  Whale (constellation). _See_ Cetus

  Whewell, 190

  Willamette meteorite, 277

  Wilson, Mount, 118

  Wilson, W.E., 313

  "Winged circle" (or "disc"), 87

  Winter, 175, 178

  Witt, 227

  Wolf, Max, 226-227, 232

  Wright, Thomas, 319, 334

  Wybord, 89

  Xenophon, 101

  Year, 35

  "Year" in Uranus and Neptune, 35-36

  Year, number of eclipses in a, 68

  "Year of the Stars," 270

  Yellow (rays of light), 121-122, 124

  Yerkes Telescope Great, 117, 303

  Young, 94, 137, 166

  Zenith, 174

  Zinc, 145

  Zodiacal light, 181

  Zone of asteroids, 30-31, 227

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THE ROMANCE OF INSECT LIFE

DESCRIBING THE CURIOUS & INTERESTING IN THE INSECT WORLD

BY EDMUND SELOUS

AUTHOR OF "THE ROMANCE OF THE ANIMAL WORLD," ETC.

_With Sixteen Illustrations._ _Extra Crown 8vo._ 5_s._

     "An entertaining volume, one more of a series which seeks with much
     success to describe the wonders of nature and science in simple,
     attractive form."--_Graphic._

     "Offers most interesting descriptions of the strange and curious
     inhabitants of the insect world, sure to excite inquiry and to
     foster observation. There are ants white and yellow, locusts and
     cicadas, bees and butterflies, spiders and beetles, scorpions and
     cockroaches--and especially ants--with a really scientific
     investigation of their wonderful habits not in dry detail, but in
     free and charming exposition and narrative. An admirable book to
     put in the hands of a boy or girl with a turn for natural
     science--and whether or not."--_Educational Times._

     "Both interesting and instructive. Such a work as this is genuinely
     educative. There are numerous illustrations."--_Liverpool Courier._

     "With beautiful original drawings by Carton Moore Park and Lancelot
     Speed, and effectively bound in dark blue cloth, blazoned with
     scarlet and gold."--_Lady._

     "Admirably written and handsomely produced. Mr. Selous's volume
     shows careful research, and the illustrations of insects and the
     results of their powers are well done."--_World._

THE ROMANCE OF MODERN MECHANISM

INTERESTING DESCRIPTIONS IN NON-TECHNICAL LANGUAGE OF WONDERFUL
MACHINERY, MECHANICAL. DEVICES, & MARVELLOUSLY DELICATE SCIENTIFIC
INSTRUMENTS

BY ARCHIBALD WILLIAMS, B.A., F.R.G.S.

AUTHOR OF "THE ROMANCE OF MODERN EXPLORATION," ETC.

_With Twenty-six Illustrations._ _Extra Crown 8vo._ 5_s._

     "No boy will be able to resist the delights of this book, full to
     the brim of instructive and wonderful matter."--_British Weekly._

     "This book has kept your reviewer awake when he reasonably expected
     to be otherwise engaged. We do not remember coming across a more
     fascinating volume, even to a somewhat blasé reader whose business
     it is to read all that comes in his way. The marvels miracles they
     should be called, of the modern workshop are here exploited by Mr.
     Williams for the benefit of readers who have not the opportunity of
     seeing these wonders or the necessary mathematical knowledge to
     understand a scientific treatise on their working. Only the
     simplest language is used and every effort is made, by illustration
     or by analogy, to make sufficiently clear to the non-scientific
     reader how the particular bit of machinery works and what its work
     really is. Delicate instruments, calculating machines, workshop
     machinery, portable tools, the pedrail, motors ashore and afloat,
     fire engines, automatic machines, sculpturing machines--these are a
     few of the chapters which crowd this splendid
     volume."--_Educational News._

     "It is difficult to make descriptions of machinery and mechanism
     interesting, but Mr. Williams has the enviable knack of doing so,
     and it is hardly possible to open this book at any page without
     turning up something which you feel you must read; and then you
     cannot stop till you come to the end of the
     chapter."--_Electricity._

     "This book is full of interest and instruction, and is a welcome
     addition to Messrs. Seeley and Company's Romance Series."--_Leeds
     Mercury._

     "A book of absorbing interest for the boy with a mechanical turn,
     and indeed for the general reader."--_Educational Times._

     "An instructive and well-written volume."--_Hobbies._

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A Catalogue of Books on Art, History, and General Literature Published
by Seeley, Service & Co Ltd. 38 Great Russell St. London

_Some of the Contents_

Crown Library, The                       4

Elzevir Library, The                     5

Events of Our Own Times Series           6

Illuminated Series, The                  8

Miniature Library of Devotion, The       9

Miniature Portfolio Monographs, The      9

Missions, The Library of                10

New Art Library, The                    11

Portfolio Monographs                    11

Science of To-Day Series, The           14

Seeley's Illustrated Pocket Library     14

Seeley's Standard Library               15

Story Series, The                       15

"Things Seen" Series, The               16

_The Publishers will be pleased to post their complete Catalogue or
their Illustrated Miniature Catalogue on receipt of a post-card_

CATALOGUE OF BOOKS

_Arranged alphabetically under the names of Authors and Series_

ABBOTT, Rev. E.A., D.D.

     How to Parse. An English Grammar. Fcap. 8vo, 3s. 6d.

     How to Tell the Parts of Speech. An Introduction to English
     Grammar. Fcap. 8vo, 2s.

     How to Write Clearly. Rules and Exercises on English Composition.
     1s. 6d.

     Latin Gate, The. A First Latin Translation Book. Crown 8vo, 3s. 6d.

     Via Latina. A First Latin Grammar. Crown 8vo, 3s. 6d.

ABBOTT, Rev. E.A., and Sir J.R. SEELEY.

     English Lessons for English People. Crown 8vo, 4s. 6d.

     ADY, Mrs. _See_ CARTWRIGHT, JULIA.

À KEMPIS, THOMAS.

     Of the Imitation of Christ. With Illuminated Frontispiece and Title
     Page, and Illuminated Sub-Titles to each book. In white or blue
     cloth, with inset miniatures. Gilt top; crown 8vo, 6s. nett; also
     bound in same manner in real classic vellum. Each copy in a box,
     10s. 6d. nett; Antique leather with clasps, 10s. 6d. nett.

     "It may well be questioned whether the great work of Thomas à
     Kempis has ever been presented to better advantage."--_The
     Guardian._

ANDERSON, Prof. W.

     Japanese Wood Engravings. Coloured Illustrations. Super-royal 8vo,
     sewed, 2s. 6d. nett; half-linen, 3s. 6d. nett; also small 4to,
     cloth, 2s. nett; lambskin, 3s. nett.

ARMSTRONG, Sir WALTER.

     The Art of Velazquez. Illustrated. Super-royal 8vo, 3s. 6d. nett.

     The Life of Velazquez. Illustrated. Super-royal 8vo, 3s. 6d. nett.

     Velazquez. A Study of his Life and Art. With Eight Copper Plates
     and many minor Illustrations. Super-royal 8vo, cloth, 9s. nett.

     Thomas Gainsborough. Illustrated. Super-royal 8vo, half-linen, 3s.
     6d. nett. Also new edition small 4to, cloth, 2s. nett; leather, 3s.
     nett and 5s. nett.

     The Peel Collection and the Dutch School of Painting. With
     Illustrations in Photogravure and Half-tone. Super-royal 8vo,
     sewed, 5s. nett; cloth, 7s. nett.

     W.Q. Orchardson. Super-royal 8vo, sewed, 2s. 6d.; half-linen, 3s.
     6d. nett.

AUGUSTINE, S.

     Confessions of S. Augustine. With Illuminated pages. In white or
     blue cloth, gilt top, crown 8vo, 6s. nett; also in vellum, 10s. 6d.
     nett.

BAKER, Captain B. GRANVILLE

     The Passing of the Turkish Empire in Europe. With Thirty-two
     Illustrations. Demy 8vo, 16s. nett.

BARING-GOULD, Rev. S.

     Family Names and their Story. Demy 8vo, 7s. 6d. nett. 5s. nett.

BEDFORD, Rev. W.K.R.

     Malta and the Knights Hospitallers. Super-royal 8vo, sewed, 2s. 6d.
     nett; half-linen, 3s. 6d. nett.

BENHAM, Rev. Canon D.D., F.S.A.

     The Tower of London. With Four Plates in Colours and many other
     Illustrations. Super-royal 8vo, sewed, 5s. nett; cloth, 7s. nett.

     Mediæval London. With a Frontispiece in Photogravure, Four Plates
     in Colour, and many other Illustrations. Super-royal 8vo, sewed,
     5s. nett; cloth, gilt top, 7s. nett. Also extra crown 8vo, 3s. 6d.
     nett.

     Old St. Paul's Cathedral. With a Frontispiece in Photogravure, Four
     Plates printed in Colour, and many other Illustrations. Super-royal
     8vo, sewed, 5s. nett, or cloth, gilt top, 7s. nett.

BENNETT, EDWARD.

     The Post Office and its Story. An interesting account of the
     activities of a great Government department. With Twenty-five
     Illustrations. Ex. crn. 8vo, 5s. nett.

BICKERSTETH, Rev. E.

     Family Prayers for Six Weeks. Crown 8vo, 3s. 6d.

     A Companion to the Holy Communion. 32mo, cloth, 1s.

BINYON, LAURENCE.

     Dutch Etchers of the Seventeenth Century. Illustrated. Super-royal
     8vo, sewed, 2s. 6d.; half-linen, 3s. 6d. nett.

     John Crome and John Sell Cotman. Illustrated. Super-royal 8vo
     sewed, 3s. 6d. nett.

BIRCH, G.H.

     London on Thames in Bygone Days. With Four Plates printed in Colour
     and many other Illustrations. Super-royal 8vo, sewed, 5s. nett;
     cloth, 7s. nett.

BRIDGES, Rev. C.

     An Exposition of Psalm CXIX. Crown 8vo, 5s.

BUTCHER, E.L.

     Things Seen in Egypt. With Fifty Illustrations. Small 4to, cloth,
     2s. nett; lambskin, 3s. nett; velvet leather, in box, 5s. nett.

     Poems, 1s. 6d. nett.

CACHEMAILLE, Rev. E.P., M.A.

     XXVI Present-Day Papers on Prophecy. An explanation of the visions
     of Daniel and of the Revelation, on the continuous historic system.
     With Maps and Diagrams. 700 pp. 6s. nett.

CARTWRIGHT, JULIA.

     Jules Bastien-Lepage. Super-royal 8vo, sewed, 2s. 6d.; cloth, 3s.
     6d. nett.

     Sacharissa. Some Account of Dorothy Sidney, Countess of Sunderland,
     her Family and Friends. With Five Portraits. Demy 8vo, 7s. 6d.

     Raphael in Rome. Illustrated. Super-royal 8vo, sewed, 2s. 6d.;
     half-linen, 3s. 6d. nett; also in small 4to, cloth, 2s. nett;
     leather, 3s. nett and 5s. nett.

     The Early Work of Raphael. Illustrated. Super-royal 8vo, sewed 2s.
     6d.; half-linen, 3s. 6d. Also new edition, revised, in small 4to,
     in cloth, 2s. nett; leather, 3s. nett.

     Raphael: A Study of his Life and Work. With Eight Copper Plates and
     many other Illustrations. Super-royal 8vo, 7s. 6d. nett.

CESARESCO, The Countess MARTINENGO

     The Liberation of Italy. With Portraits on Copper. Crown 8vo, 5s.

CHATTERTON, E. KEBLE.

     Fore and Aft. The Story of the Fore and Aft Rig from the Earliest
     Times to the Present Day. Sq. ex. royal 8vo. With 150 Illustrations
     and Coloured Frontispiece by C. Dixon, R.I. 16s. nett.

     Through Holland in the "Vivette." The Cruise of a 4-Tonner from the
     Solent to the Zuyder Zee, through the Dutch Waterways. With Sixty
     Illustrations and Charts, 6s. nett.

CHITTY, J.R.

     Things Seen in China. With Fifty Illustrations. Small 4to; cloth,
     2s.; leather, 3s.; velvet leather in a box, 5s. nett.

CHORAL SERVICE-BOOK FOR PARISH CHURCHES, THE.

Compiled and Edited by J.W. ELLIOTT, Organist and Choirmaster of St.
Mark's, Hamilton Terrace, London. With some Practical Counsels taken by
permission from "Notes on the Church Service," by Bishop WALSHAM HOW.

A. Royal 8vo, sewed, 1s.; cloth, 1s. 6d.
B. 16mo, sewed, 6d.; cloth, 8d.

_The following portions may be had separately:_--

     The Ferial and Festal Responses and the Litany. Arranged by J.W.
     ELLIOTT. Sewed, 4d.

     The Communion Service, Kyrie, Credo, Sanctus, and Gloria in
     Excelsis. Set to Music by Dr. J. NAYLOR, Organist of York Minster.
     Sewed, 4d.

CHURCH, Sir ARTHUR H., F.R.S.

     Josiah Wedgwood, Master Potter. With many Illustrations.
     Super-royal 8vo, sewed, 5s. nett; cloth, 7s. nett; also small 4to,
     cloth, 2s. nett; leather, 3s. and 5s. nett.

     The Chemistry of Paints and Painting. Third Edition. Crown 8vo, 6s.

CHURCH, Rev. A.J.

     Nicias, and the Sicilian Expedition. Crown 8vo, 1s. 6d.

For other books by Professor CHURCH see Complete Catalogue.

CLARK, J.W., M.A.

     Cambridge. With a coloured Frontispiece and many other
     Illustrations by A. BRUNET-DEBAINES and H. TOUSSAINT &c. Extra
     crown 8vo, 6s.; also crown 8vo, cloth, 2s. nett; leather, 3s.;
     special leather, in box, 5s. nett.

CODY, Rev. H.A.

     An Apostle of the North. The Biography of the late Bishop BOMPAS,
     First Bishop of Athabasca, and with an Introduction by the
     ARCHBISHOP of RUPERTS-LAND. With 42 Illustrations. Demy 8vo, 7s.
     6d. nett. 5s. nett.

CORBIN, T.W.

     Engineering of To-day. With Seventy-three Illustrations and
     Diagrams. Extra crown 8vo, 5s. nett.

     Mechanical Inventions of To-Day. Ex. Crown 8vo; with Ninety-four
     Illustrations, 5s. nett.

CORNISH, C.J.

     Animals of To-day: Their Life and Conversation. With Illustrations
     from Photographs by C. REID of Wishaw. Crown 8vo, 6s.

     The Isle of Wight. Illustrated. Super-royal 8vo, sewed, 2s. 6d.
     nett; half-linen, 3s. 6d. nett; also a new edition, small 4to,
     cloth, 2s.; leather, 3s. and 5s.

     Life at the Zoo. Notes and Traditions of the Regent's Park Gardens.
     Illustrated from Photographs by GAMBIER BOLTON. Fifth Edition.
     Crown 8vo, 6s.

     The Naturalist on the Thames. Many Illustrations. Demy 8vo, 7s. 6d.

     The New Forest. Super-royal 8vo, sewed, 2s. 6d. nett; half-linen,
     3s. 6d. nett; also new edition, small 4to, cloth, 2s.; leather, 3s.
     nett; and special velvet leather, each copy in a box, 5s.

     The New Forest and the Isle of Wight. With Eight Plates and many
     other Illustrations. Super-royal 8vo, 7s. 6d. nett.

     Nights with an Old Gunner, and other Studies of Wild Life. With
     Sixteen Illustrations by LANCELOT SPEED, CHARLES WHYMPER, and from
     Photographs. Crown 8vo, 6s.

THE CROWN LIBRARY

A series of notable copyright books issued in uniform binding. Extra
crown 8vo. With many illustrations, 5s. nett.

_JUST ISSUED. SECOND AND CHEAPER EDITION._

SWANN, A.J.

     Fighting the Slave Hunters in Central Africa. A Record of
     Twenty-six Years of Travel and Adventure round the Great Lakes, and
     of the overthrow of Tip-pu-Tib, Rumaliza, and other great Slave
     Traders. With 45 Illustrations and a Map, 5s. nett.

_RECENTLY ISSUED._

GRUBB, W. BARBROOKE.

     An Unknown People in an Unknown Land. An Account of the Life and
     Customs of the Lengua Indians of the Paraguayan Chaco, with
     Adventures and Experiences met with during Twenty Years' Pioneering
     and Exploration amongst them. With Twenty-four Illustrations and a
     Map. Extra crown 8vo, 5s. nett.

FRASER, Sir A.H.L., K.C.S.I., M.A., LL.D., Litt.D.,
ex-Lieutenant-Governor of Bengal.

     Among Indian Rajahs and Ryots. A Civil Servants' Recollections and
     Impressions of Thirty-seven Years of Work and Sport in the Central
     Provinces and Bengal. Third Edition, 5s. nett.

CODY, Rev. H.A.

     An Apostle of the North. The Story of Bishop Bompas's Life amongst
     the Red Indians & Eskimo. Third Edition, 5s. nett.

PENNELL, T.L., M.D., B.Sc.

     Among the Wild Tribes of the Afghan Frontier. A Record of Sixteen
     Years' close intercourse with the natives of Afghanistan and the
     North-West Frontier. Introduction by EARL ROBERTS. Extra crown 8vo.
     Twenty-six Illustrations and Map. Fifth Edition, 5s. net.

CUST, LIONEL.

     The Engravings of Albert Dürer. Illustrated. Super-royal 8vo,
     half-linen, 3s. 6d. nett.

     Paintings and Drawings of Albert Dürer. Illustrated. Super-royal
     8vo, sewed, 3s. 6d. nett.

     Albrecht Dürer. A Study of his Life and Work. With Eight Copper
     Plates and many other Illustrations. Super-royal 8vo, 7s. 6d.

DAVENPORT, CYRIL.

     Cameos. With examples in Colour and many other Illustrations.
     Super-royal 8vo, sewed, 5s. nett; cloth, 7s. nett.

     Royal English Bookbindings. With Coloured Plates and many other
     Illustrations. Super-royal 8vo, sewed, 3s. 6d.; cloth, 4s. 6d.

DAVIES, RANDALL, F.S.A.

     English Society of the Eighteenth Century in Contemporary Art. With
     Four Coloured and many other Illustrations. Super royal 8vo, sewed,
     5s. nett; cloth, 7s. nett.

DAWSON, Rev. E.C.

     The Life of Bishop Hannington. Crown 8vo, paper boards, 2s. 6d.; or
     with Map and Illustrations, cloth, 3s. 6d.

DESTRÉE, O.G.

     The Renaissance of Sculpture in Belgium. Illustrated. Super-royal
     8vo, sewed, 2s. 6d. nett; half-linen, 3s. 6d. nett.

DOLMAGE, CECIL G., M.A., D.C.L., LL.D., F.R.A.S.

     Astronomy of To-Day. A popular account in non-technical language.
     With Forty-six Illustrations and Diagrams. Extra crown 8vo, 5s.
     nett.

DOMVILLE-FIFE, CHARLES W.

     Submarine Engineering of To-Day. Extra crown 8vo, 5s. nett.

ELZEVIR LIBRARY, THE.

     Selections from the choicest English Writers. Exquisitely
     Illustrated, with Frontispiece and Title-page in Colours by H.M.
     BROCK, and many other Illustrations. Half bound in cloth, coloured
     top, 1s. nett; full leather, 1s. 6d. nett; velvet leather, gilt
     edges, in a box, 2s. 6d. nett.

Volume I. Fancy & Humour of Lamb.
  "   II. Wit & Imagination of Disraeli.
  "  III. Vignettes from Oliver Goldsmith.
  "   IV. Wit & Sagacity of Dr. Johnson.
  "    V. Insight & Imagination of John Ruskin.
  "   VI. Vignettes of London Life from Dickens.
  "  VII. XVIIIth Century Vignettes from Thackeray.
  " VIII. Vignettes of Country Life from Dickens.
  "   IX. Wisdom & Humour of Carlyle.

"Decidedly natty and original in get-up."--_The Saturday Review._

EVANS, WILLMOTT, M.D.

     Medical Science of To-Day. Ex. crn. 8vo; 24 Illustrations, 5s.
     nett.

WILMOT, EARDLEY, Rear-Admiral S.

     Our Fleet To-day and its Development during the last Half Century.
     With many Illustrations. Crown 8vo, 5s.

EVENTS OF OUR OWN TIMES

Crown 8vo. With Illustrations, 5s. each.

     The War in the Crimea. By General Sir E. HAMLEY, K.C.B.

     The Indian Mutiny. By Colonel MALLESON, C.S.I.

     The Afghan Wars, 1839-42, and 1878-80. By ARCHIBALD FORBES.

     Our Fleet To-Day and its Development during the last Half-Century.
     By Rear-Admiral S. EARDLEY WILMOT.

     The Refounding of the German Empire. By Colonel MALLESON, C.S.I.

     The Liberation of Italy. By the Countess MARTINENGO CESARESCO.

     Great Britain in Modern Africa. By EDGAR SANDERSON, M.A.

     The War in the Peninsula. By A. INNES SHAND.

FLETCHER, W.Y.

     Bookbinding in France. Coloured Plates. Super-royal, sewed, 2s. 6d.
     nett; half-linen, 3s. 6d. nett.

FORBES, ARCHIBALD.

     The Afghan Wars of 1839-1842 and 1878-1880. With Four Portraits on
     Copper, and Maps and Plans. Crown 8vo, 5s.

FRASER, Sir ANDREW H.L.

     Among Indian Rajahs and Ryots. With 34 Illustrations and a Map.
     Demy 8vo, 18s. nett. Third and Cheaper Edition, 5s. nett.

FRASER, DONALD.

     Winning a Primitive People. Illustrated. Extra crown 8vo, 5s. nett.

FRIPP, Sir ALFRED D., K.C.V.O., & R. THOMPSON, F.R.C.S.

     Human Anatomy for Art Students. Profusely Illustrated with
     Photographs and Drawings by INNES FRIPP, A.R.C.A. Square extra
     crown 8vo, 7s. 6d. nett.

FROBENIUS, LEO.

     The Childhood of Man. A Popular Account of the Lives and Thoughts
     of Primitive Races. Translated by Prof. A.H. KEANE, LL.D. With 416
     Illustrations. Demy 8vo, 16s. nett.

FRY, ROGER.

     Discourses Delivered to the Students of the Royal Academy by Sir
     Joshua Reynolds. With an Introduction and Notes by ROGER FRY. With
     Thirty-three Illustrations. Square Crown 8vo, 7s. 6d. nett.

GARDNER, J. STARKIE.

     Armour in England. With Eight Coloured Plates and many other
     Illustrations. Super-royal 8vo, sewed, 3s. 6d. nett.

     Foreign Armour in England. With Eight Coloured Plates and many
     other Illustrations. Super-royal 8vo, sewed, 3s. 6d. nett.

     Armour in England. With Sixteen Coloured Plates and many other
     Illustrations. The two parts in one volume. Super-royal 8vo, cloth,
     gilt top, 9s. nett.

GARNETT, R., LL.D.

     Richmond on Thames. Illustrated. Super-royal 8vo, sewed, 3s. 6d.
     nett.

GIBERNE, AGNES.

     Beside the Waters of Comfort. Crown 8vo, 3s. 6d.

GIBSON, CHARLES R., F.R.S.E.

     Electricity of To-Day. Its Works and Mysteries described in
     non-technical language. With 30 Illustrations. Extra crown 8vo, 5s.
     nett.

     Scientific Ideas of To-day. A Popular Account in non-technical
     language of the Nature of Matter, Electricity, Light, Heat, &c.,
     &c. With 25 Illustrations. Extra crown 8vo, 5s. nett.

     How Telegraphs and Telephones Work. With many Illustrations. Crown
     8vo, 1s. 6d. nett.

     The Autobiography of an Electron. With 8 Illustrations. Long 8vo,
     3s. 6d. nett.

     Wireless Telegraphy. With many Illustrations. Ex. crn. 8vo, 2s.
     nett.

GODLEY, A.D.

     Socrates and Athenian Society in his Day. Crown 8vo, 4s. 6d.

     Aspects of Modern Oxford. With many Illustrations. Crown 8vo,
     cloth, 2s. nett; lambskin, 3s. nett; velvet leather, in box, 5s.
     nett.

GOLDEN RECITER (_See_ JAMES, Prof. CAIRNS.)

GOMES, EDWIN H., M.A.

     Seventeen Years among the Sea Dyaks of Borneo. With 40
     Illustrations and a Map. Demy 8vo, 16s. nett.

GRAHAME, GEORGE.

     Claude Lorrain. Illustrated. Super-royal 8vo, 2s. 6d. nett;
     half-linen, 3s. 6d. nett.

GRIFFITH, M.E. HUME.

     Behind the Veil in Persia and Turkish Arabia. An Account of an
     Englishwoman's Eight Years' Residence amongst the Women of the
     East. With 37 Illustrations and a Map. Demy 8vo, 16s. nett.

GRINDON, LEO.

     Lancashire. Brief Historical and Descriptive Notes. With many
     Illustrations. Crown 8vo, 6s.

GRUBB, W. BARBROOKE (Pioneer and Explorer of the Chaco).

     An Unknown People in an Unknown Land. With Sixty Illustrations and
     a Map. Demy 8vo, 16s. nett. Third and Cheaper Edition, 5s.

     A Church in the Wilds. Illustrated. Extra crown 8vo, 5s. nett.

HADOW, W.H.

     A Croatian Composer. Notes toward the Study of Joseph Haydn. Crown
     8vo, 2s. 6d. nett.

     Studies in Modern Music. First Series. Berlioz, Schumann, Wagner.
     With an Essay on Music and Musical Criticism. With Five Portraits.
     Crown 8vo, 7s. 6d.

     Studies in Modern Music. Second Series. Chopin, Dvoràk, Brahms.
     With an Essay on Musical Form. With Four Portraits. Crown 8vo, 7s.
     6d.

HAMERTON, P.G.

     The Etchings of Rembrandt, and Dutch Etchers of the Seventeenth
     Century. By P.G. HAMERTON and LAURENCE BINTON. With Eight Copper
     Plates and many other Illustrations. Super-royal 8vo, 7s. 6d. nett.

     The Mount. Narrative of a Visit to the Site of a Gaulish City on
     Mount Beuvray. With a Description of the neighbouring City of
     Autun. Crown 8vo, 3s. 6d.

     Round my House. Notes on Rural Life in Peace and War. Crown 8vo,
     with Illustrations, 2s. 6d. nett. Cheaper edition, 2s. nett.

     Paris. Illustrated. New edition. Cloth, 2s. nett; leather, 3s. nett
     in special leather, full gilt, in box, 5s. nett.

HAMLEY, Gen. Sir E.

     The War in the Crimea. With Copper Plates and other Illustrations.
     Crown 8vo, 5s.

HANOUM ZEYNEB (Heroine of Pierre Loti's Novel "Les Désenchantées.")

     A Turkish Woman's European Impressions. Edited by GRACE ELLISON.
     With a portrait by AUGUSTE RODIN and 23 other Illustrations from
     photographs. Crown 8vo, 6s. nett.

HARTLEY, C. GASQUOINE.

     Things Seen in Spain. With Fifty Illustrations. Small 4to, cloth,
     2s.; leather, 3s.; velvet leather in a box, 5s. nett.

HAYWOOD, Capt. A.H.W.

     Through Timbuctu & Across the Great Sahara. Demy 8vo, with 41
     Illustrations and a Map. 16s. nett.

HENDERSON, Major PERCY E.

     A British Officer in the Balkans. Through Dalmatia, Montenegro,
     Turkey in Austria, Magyarland, Bosnia and Herzegovina. With 50
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