Abstract
THE first edition of this book was published in 1900, and there was a reprint in 1906. To the present issue two large charts of the northern and southern celestial hemispheres have been added, and also a chapter of forty-two pages, entitled “Celestial Objects.” By means of these additions, the reader will “be able easily to find his way about the heavens and identify objects and scenes of particular interest. It is a little to be regretted that the text has apparently been unaltered with the view of bringing it up to date; for though the fundamental facts relating to the solar and stellar systems remain much as they were when the book was written, a few statements, such as that, for instance, referring to Halley's comet' as “due again about 1910,” are to say the least-anachronistic. We hope that the demand for the book will be great enough to justify the publication of a revised edition at no distant date.
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