Stories of Starland
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Obvious typographical errors have been corrected. Inconsistent spelling and hyphenation in the original document have been preserved.
RICHARD A. PROCTOR.
BY MARY PROCTOR ( Daughter of late Richard A. Proctor )
NEW YORK POTTER & PUTNAM COMPANY LONDON G. W. BACON & CO., Limited
Copyright, 1898, BY POTTER & PUTNAM COMPANY.
THE MERSHON COMPANY PRESS, RAHWAY, N. J., U. S. A.
DEDICATED TO THE MEMORY OF MY BROTHER HARRY.
The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament sheweth his handiwork.—Psalms.
This book has been a labor of love from the beginning to the end, and I have thoroughly enjoyed conversing with my little friends Harry and Nellie. Now that the book is finished, I leave it with regret.
It is impossible to give all the authorities for my legends of the stars. Many were told to me by my father when I was a little girl, or I found them among books in his library, which is now scattered far and wide. Others are from Grecian mythology, Japanese folk-lore, Hindoo legends, while some of the American Indian stories were found in musty volumes of the Bureau of Ethnology at the Smithsonian Institution.
As for the descriptive astronomy, among my authorities are Professor C. A. Young, Professor Barnard, Agnes M. Clerke, Professor R. S. Ball, Schiaparelli, Flammarion, Professor Todd, Mr. Lowell of Flagstaff, Ariz., and my father, the late Richard A. Proctor.
Mary Proctor
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STORIES OF STARLAND
PREFACE.
CONTENTS.
STORIES OF STARLAND.
THE STORY OF GIANT SUN.
ANCIENT STORIES OF THE SUN.
HEAT OF THE SUN.
DISTANCE OF THE SUN.
SIZE OF THE SUN.
THE SUN IN THE DAYS OF ITS YOUTH.
ON THE SETTING SUN.
THE FOUR SUNBEAMS.
THE SUN.
THE FAMILY OF GIANT SUN.
WHAT IS A PLANET?
STORY OF PLANET MERCURY.
STORY OF PLANET VENUS.
ESTELLE'S ASTRONOMY.
VENUS.
THE EVENING STAR.
MERCURY.
A RAMBLE ON THE MOON.
THE MAN IN THE MOON.
THE WOMAN IN THE MOON.
THE TOAD IN THE MOON.
SCENERY ON THE MOON.
THE HINDOO LEGEND.
THE NEW MOON.
LADY MOON.
A LEGEND.
THE PLANET MARS AND THE BABY PLANETS.
STORY OF PLANET MARS.
STORY OF THE BABY PLANETS.
STORY OF JUPITER AND HIS MOONS.
STORY OF JUPITER.
JUPITER AS SEEN THROUGH A TELESCOPE.
THE MOONS OF JUPITER.
ECLIPSE OF JUPITER'S MOONS.
JUPITER.
A LESSON IN ASTRONOMY.
THE GIANT PLANETS.
THE PLANET SATURN.
THE PLANET URANUS.
DIFFERENCE BETWEEN A PLANET AND A STAR.
THE DISCOVERY OF PLANET NEPTUNE.
"IS IT TRUE?"
COMETS AND METEORS.
STORY OF COMETS.
STORY OF METEORS.
STORY OF A SHOOTING STAR.
STARLIGHT AT SEA.
STORIES OF THE SUMMER STARS.
LEGENDS OF THE GREAT BEAR.
STORIES OF THE GREAT DIPPER.
STORY OF THE DRAGON.
STORIES OF THE NORTHERN CROWN.
STORY OF THE LION.
THE MILKY WAY.
A SWEDISH LEGEND.
LEGEND OF THE SWAN.
MEETING OF THE STAR-LOVERS.
THE STARS AND THE VIOLETS.
THE NIGHTS.
THE CALLING OF THE STARS.
STORY OF THE ROYAL FAMILY.
STORY OF THE FISHES.
STORY OF THE PLEIADES.
STORY OF THE SEVEN LITTLE INDIAN BOYS.
WHY THE STARS TWINKLE.
THE FLOWERS OF HEAVEN.
NUMBER OF THE STARS.
DISTANCE OF THE STARS.
WHAT ARE THE STARS MADE OF?
OUR ISLAND UNIVERSE.
WYNKEN, BLYNKEN, AND NOD.
SEVEN LITTLE INDIAN STARS.
WHY THE STARS TWINKLE.
"GOD BLESS THE STAR!"
CROSSING THE BAR.
YE GOLDEN LAMPS OF HEAVEN.
