St Nicholas [serial] . tons hermit, to Sit and rightly spellOf every star that heaven doth show. And it is not at all difficult to learn all the chiefstar-groups,—or constellations, as they are called,—if only the learner goes properly to work. PerhapsI ought rather to say, if the teacher goes properlyto work. I remember, when I was a boy abouttwelve years old, being very much perplexed by thebooks of astronomy, and the star-charts, from whichI tried to learn the stars. There was Bonny-castles Astronomy, with a very pretty picture ofone constellation,—Andromeda,—in which, if onelooked very car
St Nicholas [serial] . tons hermit, to Sit and rightly spellOf every star that heaven doth show. And it is not at all difficult to learn all the chiefstar-groups,—or constellations, as they are called,—if only the learner goes properly to work. PerhapsI ought rather to say, if the teacher goes properlyto work. I remember, when I was a boy abouttwelve years old, being very much perplexed by thebooks of astronomy, and the star-charts, from whichI tried to learn the stars. There was Bonny-castles Astronomy, with a very pretty picture ofone constellation,—Andromeda,—in which, if onelooked very carefully, one could perceive stars,though these were nearly lost in the carefullyshaded picture of the Chained Lady herself. An-other book which I found in my fathers libraryshowed a series of neat pictures of all the chiefconstellations, but gave no clear information as totheir whereabouts. And the charts which I found were not at all easy to understand, being, in fathe usual star-charts, which give no informat;. whatever about the places of star-groups on the &of any place or at any time. So that it was only I 7-1 THE STARS FOR JANUARY 167
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