Name the different kinds of Poetry. Epic, or historical; dramatic, or representative,--from drama, the name of all compositions adapted to recitation on the stage--in which are displayed, for instruction and amusement, all the passions, feelings, errors, and virtues of the human race in real life; lyric poetry, or that suited to music, as songs, odes, &c; didactic, or instructive; elegiac, or sentimental, and affecting; satirical, or censorious; epigrammatic, or witty and ludicrous; and pastoral, or descriptive of country life. _Historical_, relating to history. _Lyric_, pertaining to a lyre. _Didactic_, doctrinal; relating to doctrines or opinions. _Elegiac_, relating to elegy; mournful, sorrowful. _Elegy_, a mournful song: a funeral composition; a short poem without points or affected elegance. _Satirical_, severe in language; relating to satire. _Satire_, a poem in which wickedness or folly is censured. _Epigrammatic_, relating to epigram,--a short poem ending in a particular point or meaning, understood but not expressed. _Pastoral_, from _pastor_, a shepherd; relating to rural employments and those belonging to shepherds. What is Astronomy? The science which treats of the heavenly bodies, their arrangement, magnitudes, distances and motions. The term Astronomy is derived from two Greek words, signifying the _law_ of the _stars_; _astron_ being the Greek for star. What can you say of its origin? Its origin has been ascribed to several persons, as well as to different nations and ages. Belus, King of Assyria; Atlas, King of Mauritania; and Uranus, King of the countries situated on the shores of the Atlantic Ocean, are all recorded as the persons to whom the world is indebted for this noble science. Its origin is generally fixed in Chaldea. Some choose, however, to attribute it to the Hebrews; others to the Egyptians,--from whom, they say, it passed to the Greeks. What country is meant by Mauritania? Mauritania is the name formerly given to a country in the northern part of Africa. Chaldea is the ancient name for Babylonia, now called Irak Arabi, a district of Asiatic Turkey. By whom were the heavenly bodies first divided into Constellations or groups? By the ancients. The phenomena of the heavens were studied in very early ages by several nations of the East. The Chaldeans, the Indians, the Chinese and the Egyptians have all left evidence of the industry and ingenuity with which their observations were conducted. _Phenomena_, appearances. _Ingenuity_, skilfulness. What progress did they make in Astronomy?