CONTENTS.
| PAGE | ||
| [Light,] | F. W. Bourdillon, | 13 |
| [The Story of Giant Sun.] | ||
| Ancient Stories of the Sun—Heat of the Sun—Distance of the Sun—Sizeof the Sun—The Sun in the Days of Its Youth, | 13-33 | |
| [On the Setting Sun,] | Sir Walter Scott, | 29 |
| [The Four Sunbeams,] | M. K. B., from St. Nicholas, | 31 |
| [The Sun,] | 32 | |
| [The Family of Giant Sun.] | ||
| What Is a Planet?—Story of Planet Mercury—Story of Planet Venus, | 34-45 | |
| [Estelle's Astronomy,] | Delia Hart Stone, | 47 |
| [Venus,] | Milton, | 47 |
| [The Evening Star,] | Longfellow, | 48 |
| [Mercury,] | Baker, | 48 |
| [A Ramble on the Moon.] | ||
| Story of the Moon—Story of the Man in the Moon—Story of the Womanin the Moon—Story of the Toad in the Moon—Scenery on the Moon—HindooLegend, | 49-67 | |
| [The New Moon,] | Mrs. Follen, | 65 |
| [Lady Moon,] | Lord Houghton, | 66 |
| [A Legend,] | Taken from the New York Tribune, | 67 |
| [The Planet Mars and the Baby Planets.] | ||
| Story of Planet Mars—Story of the Baby Planets, | 68-79 | |
| [Story of Jupiter and His Moons.] | ||
| Story of Jupiter—Jupiter as Seen through a Telescope—The Moons ofJupiter—Eclipse of Jupiter's Moons, | 80-93 | |
| [Jupiter,] | Moore, | 92 |
| [A Lesson in Astronomy,] | Youth's Companion, | 92 |
| [The Giant Planets.] | ||
| The Planet Saturn—The Planet Uranus—Difference between a Planetand a Star—Discovery of Planet Neptune, | 94-103 | |
| [Is It True?] | Morgan Growth, from Child-StudyMonthly, | 102 |
| [Comets and Meteors.] | ||
| Story of Comets—Story of Meteors—Story of a Shooting Star, | 104-114 | |
| [Starlight at Sea,] | Amelia B. Welby, | 113 |
| [Stories of the Summer Stars.] | ||
| Legends of the Great Bear—Stories of the Great Dipper—Story of theDragon—Stories of the Northern Crown—Story of the Lion—TheMilky Way—A Swedish Legend—Legend of the Swan—Meeting ofthe Star-Lovers, | 116-146 | |
| [The Stars and the Violets,] | 145 | |
| [The Nights,] | Adelaide Proctor, | 145 |
| [The Calling of the Stars,] | 146 | |
| [Story of the Winter Stars.] | ||
| Story of the Royal Family—Story of the Fishes—Story of the Pleiades—Storyof the Seven Little Indian Boys—Why the Stars Twinkle—Flowersof Heaven—Number of the Stars—Distance of the Stars—WhatAre the Stars Made of?—Our Island Universe, | 147-179 | |
| [Wynken, Blynken, and Nod,] | Eugene Field, | 177 |
| [Seven Little Indian Stars,] | Mrs. S. M. B. Piatt, from St. Nicholas, | 178 |
| [Why the Stars Twinkle,] | Oliver Wendell Holmes, | 179 |
| "[God Bless the Star!]" | ||
| "God Bless the Star!" | 181-186 | |
| [Crossing the Bar,] | Tennyson, | 185 |
| [Ye Golden Lamps of Heaven,] | Doddridge, | 185 |
"HARRY."
STORIES OF STARLAND.
LIGHT.
Night has a thousand eyes,