Doubtless there are excellent reasons for rejecting the theory that a massive body like a planet, or a nebulous mass like those which are found among the star-depths (the least of which would exceed many times in volume a sphere filling the entire space of the orbit of Neptune), fell on some remote sun in the Northern Crown. But there are no sufficient reasons for rejecting or even doubting the theory that a comet, bearing in its train a flight of many millions of meteoric masses, falling directly upon such a sun, might cause it to shine with many times its ordinary lustre, but only for a short time, a few months or weeks, or a few days, or even hours. In the article entitled “Suns in Flames,” in my “Myths and Marvels of Astronomy,” before the startling evidence recently obtained from the star in Cygnus had been thought of, I thus indicated the probable effects of such an event:—“When the earth has passed through the richer portions (not the actual nuclei be it remembered) of meteor systems, the meteors visible from even a single station have been counted by tens of thousands, and it has been computed that millions must have fallen upon the whole earth. These were meteors following in the trains of very small comets. If a very large comet followed by no denser a flight of meteors, but each meteoric mass much larger, fell directly upon the sun, it would not be the outskirts but the nucleus of the meteoric train which would impinge upon him. They would number thousands of millions. The velocity of downfall of each mass would be more than 360 miles per second. And they would continue to pour in upon him for several days in succession, millions falling every hour. It seems not improbable that under this tremendous and long-continued meteoric hail, his whole surface would be caused to glow as intensely as that small part whose brilliancy was so surprising in the observation made by Carrington and Hodgson. In that case our sun, seen from some remote star whence ordinarily he is invisible, would shine out as a new sun for a few days, while all things living, on our earth and whatever other members of the solar system are the abodes of life, would inevitably be destroyed.”