My first acquaintance with Saturn was when he was traveling through Pisces and Aries, where there are no first-magnitude stars to mark the path of the wandering bodies in the heavens. It was then that I was most impressed with the fixity and reliability of his return. Every autumn then for five years we watched Antares passing toward the west, followed by the little “milk dipper” in Sagittarius; and then Fomalhaut, crossing the sky in the same direction, though below the constellations of the zodiac; and then turned our eyes toward the east, knowing that the next bright body to come peeping over the tops of the trees would be Saturn. And when the first frosts began to strip the leaves from the trees we found the compensation that nature always gives when she destroys one beauty: we could see earlier in the evening, through the bare branches, that lovely yellowish disc, with its suggestion of aloofness and grandeur that is peculiar to it. For the face of Saturn, while never what we would call cold, has little in it of that bright, warm, friendly aspect which is at times so characteristic of Venus, Mars, and Jupiter. AROUND ONE CIRCUIT OF THE SKIES WITH SATURN Saturn is now (the autumn of 1912) in the first part of his path through Taurus, and he will be in that constellation during all of 1913 and the greater part of 1914. From 1912 to 1920 he will be a beautiful object in the winter sky, threading his way slowly through that splendid galaxy of stars that blazes across the glittering sky peculiar to the cold winter nights. He will pass between the Pleiades and Aldebaran, and will be in opposition in that region on November 23, 1912. Farther east in the constellation he will be in opposition in the first week of December, 1913. Almost on the border line between Taurus and Gemini he will be in opposition during the third week in December, 1914; and, as this is very near the perihelion point in Saturn’s orbit, the planet will then be at his brightest. In 1915 he will not be in opposition at all; but sometime within the first two or three days of 1916 he will reach that position, and will then be well on in his journey across Gemini. For these four years--from 1912 to 1916--he will be visible during the entire night, at the times of his opposition, and in his best condition. The rings that surround him will then be placed so that we will get a broad expanse of light from them, as well as from the planet itself, which greatly increases its brightness.