CONTENTS[The Heavens.] Amédée Guillemin25[Space.] Richard A. Proctor33[Extent of the Sidereal Heavens.] Sir Robert S. Ball42[The Stars.] Amédée Guillemin53[The Lucid Stars.] J. E. Gore60[The Constellations.] Camille Flammarion70[The Arabian Heavens.] Ludwig Ideler106[Astronomy Without a Telescope.] J. E. Gore120[The Milky Way.] Richard A. Proctor133[The Magellanic Clouds—Zodiacal Light—Star Groups.] Amédée Guillemin147[The Nebulæ and Swarms of Suns.] J. E. Gore154[The Great Nebula of Orion.] Sir Robert S. Ball176[Colored, Double, Multiple, Binary, Variable, and Temporary Stars.] J. E. Gore187[A World on Fire—Nova Persei.] Alexander W. Roberts228[Telescopes.] A. Fowler238[Meteors.] Sir Robert S. Ball266[Comets.] Sir John Herschel282[Life in Other Worlds.] J. E. Gore307[The Sun—What we Learn from It.] Richard A. Proctor316[Mercury.] William F. Denning353[The Planet Venus.] Camille Flammarion 358[The Earth as a Planet.] Élisée Réclus364[The Moon.] Thomas Gwyn Elger376[Mars.] Agnes M. Clerke385[The Planetoids.] Camille Flammarion396[Jupiter.] Agnes M. Clerke403[Saturn.] Agnes M. Clerke415[Uranus and Neptune.] William F. Denning426THESTORY OF THE UNIVERSE