| PAGE | |
| Halley’s Comet | [ 7] |
| The Terror of the Comet | [10] |
| Famous Comets of Olden Times | [30] |
| The Star of Bethlehem | [39] |
| Great Events and Disasters Linked with Comets | [42] |
| Halley’s Comet the Bloodiest of All | [60] |
| The Story of Edmund Halley | [90] |
| What Are Comets? | [101] |
| Our Peril from Collision with the Comet | [113] |
| The End of the World | [122] |
ILLUSTRATIONS
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| Cover Designs by William Stevens | |
| Halley’s Comet of 1910 | [Frontispiece] |
| The Terror of the Comet in Antiquity | [13] |
| The Terror of the Comet in Mediæval Times | [20] |
| The Terror of the Comet at the Present Day | [25] |
| The Latest Photograph of the Comet of 1910 | [28] |
| Napoleon’s Comet of 1811 | [53] |
| The Great Comet of 1843 | [56] |
| Comet of Tel-el-Kebir, 1882 | [59] |
| Halley’s Comet of 1835 | [62] |
| Halley’s Comet of 1682 | [69] |
| Halley’s Comet of 1066 in the Bayeux Tapestry | [78] |
| William the Conqueror, an English Dream | [81] |
| Portrait of Edmund Halley | [92] |
| The Orbit of Halley’s Comet | [103] |
| Relative Sizes of the Earth, the Moon and Halley’s Comet | [103] |
| Donati’s Comet of 1858 | [106] |
| The Civil War Comet of 1863 | [109] |
| Coggia’s Comet of 1874 | [112] |
| Halley’s Conception of a Collision with the Comet | [119] |
TO THE COMET
“Thereby Hangs a Tail.”—Shakespeare.
Lone wanderer of the trackless sky!
Companionless! Say, dost thou fly
Along thy solitary path,
A flaming messenger of wrath—
Warning with thy portentous train