Part 39

An Easy Guide to the Constellations

With a Miniature Atlas of the Stars

By James Gall

Author of "The People's Atlas of the Stars," etc.

New and Enlarged Edition, with 30 Maps 16mo.

This new edition of An Easy Guide to the Constellations has been thoroughly revised: five additional plates have been added, so as to include all the constellations of the Zodiac, and render the book complete for Southern Europe and the United States.

G.P. Putnam's Sons New York London

The Destinies of the Stars

Svante Arrhenius

Author of "Worlds in the Making," etc.

12mo. 26 Illustrations.

With keenness, brilliancy, and distinguished learning, Dr. Arrhenius, a Nobel Prize winner, having had occasion repeatedly to treat new questions of a cosmological nature, questions largely arisen from new discoveries and observations within the scope of astronomy, opens to the reader vast new vistas, through the study of the relation of the stars to the "Milky Way" and through observations of our neighbor planets.

G.P. Putnam's Sons New York London

Transcriber's Notes:

The original text contains many characters that cannot be rendered properly in a 7 bit (ascii) version of the text.

Accented characters markup scheme:

Accented characters indicate pronunciation. The accented character and the symbol representing the accent are surrounded with square brackets. Symbols in this text have been placed in front of the character as the accents all appear above the character.

Accent Symbol acute / macron = breve ) diaresis : circumflex ^

Greek characters markup scheme:

Greek characters indicate specific stars within a given constellation. The Greek character has been transcribed and surrounded with square brackets. Where the transcription resulted in an accented character this character was rendered according to the character markup scheme (above) and both sets of square brackets were retained. Example [[^e]].

Other symbols markup scheme:

Symbols that represent the various signs of the zodiac were rendered according to the following example [Symbol: Gemini] The degree symbol is represented by Acute accent as a single character represented by '. The ae ligature has been expanded to ae. Superscripted characters are preceded by a ^

Corrections made: Page 12 Au iga corrected to Auriga. Page 118 preceptible corrected to perceptible. Page 148 Oeti corrected to Ceti. Page 163 cometimes corrected to sometimes.

Inconsistencies retained: Alphecca and Alphacca. Gloria Frederika and Gloria Frederica. Bull of Poniatowskio and Bull of Poniatowski.