This is, in briefest outline, the Story of Astronomy. It has led us from a time when men were acquainted with only a few square miles of the Earth, and knew nothing of its size and shape, or of its relation to the moving lights which shone down from above, on to our present conception of our place in a universe of suns of which the vastness, glory, and complexity surpass our utmost powers of expression. The science began in the desire to use Sun, Moon, and stars as timekeepers, but as the exercise of ordered sight and ordered thought brought knowledge, knowledge began to be desired, not for any advantage it might bring, but for its own sake. And the pursuit itself has brought its own reward in that it has increased men's powers, and made them keener in observation, clearer in reasoning, surer in inference. The pursuit indeed knows no ending; the questions to be answered that lie before us are now more numerous than ever they have been, and the call of the heavens grows more insistent: "LIFT UP YOUR EYES ON HIGH." {91} BOOKS TO READ POPULAR GENERAL DESCRIPTIONS:-- Sir R. S. Ball.--_Star-Land_. (Cassell.) Agnes Giberne.---Sun, Moon and Stars_. (Seeley.) W. T. Lynn.--_Celestial Motions_. (Stanford.) A. & W. Maunder.---The Heavens and their Story_. (Culley.) Simon Newcomb.--_Astronomy for Everybody_. (Isbister.) FOR BEGINNERS IN OBSERVATION:-- W. F. Denning.--_Telescopic Work for Starlight Evenings_. (Taylor & Francis.) E. W. Maunder.--_Astronomy without a Telescope_. (Thacker.) Arthur P. Norton.--_A Star Atlas and Telescopic Handbook_. (Gall & Inglis.) Garrett P. Serviss.--_Astronomy with an Opera-Glass_. (Appleton.) STAR-ATLASES:-- Rev. J. Gall--_An Easy Guide to the Constellations_. (Gall and Inglis.) E. M'Clure and H. J. Klein.--_Star-Atlas_. (Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge.) R. A. Proctor.--_New Star Atlas_. (Longmans.) ASTRONOMICAL INSTRUMENTS AND METHODS:-- Sir G. B. Airy.--_Popular Astronomy; Lectures delivered at Ipswich_. (Macmillan.) E. W. Maunder.--_Royal Observatory, Greenwich; its History and Work_. (Religious Tract Society.) {92} GENERAL TEXT-BOOKS:-- Clerke, Fowler & Gore.--Concise Astronomy. (Hutchinson.) Simon Newcomb.--Popular Astronomy. (Macmillan.) C. A. Young.--Manual of Astronomy. (Ginn.) SPECIAL SUBJECTS:-- Rev. E. Ledger.--_The Sun; its Planets and Satellites_. (Stanford.) C. A. Young.--_The Sun_. (Kegan Paul.) Mrs. Todd.--_Total Eclipses_. (Sampson Low.) Nasmyth and Carpenter.--_The Moon_. (John Murray.) Percival Lowell.--_Mars_. (Longmans.) Ellen M. Clerke.--_Jupiter_. (Stanford.) E. A. Proctor.--_Saturn and its System_. (Longmans.) W. T. Lynn.--_Remarkable Comets_. (Stanford.) E. W. Maunder.--_The Astronomy of the Bible_. (Hodder and Stoughton.) HISTORICAL:--