The call of the stars; a popular introduction to a knowledge of the starry skies with their romance and legend . rough eternity. It is supposed to be sixty times more brilliant thanSirius, and is famous as being the star which the Ger-man astronomer Madler, some sixty years ago, imaginedto be the centre of revolution of the universe—theplace of the Almighty, the Mansion of the Eternal!Madlers fascinating theory, which was largely a revivalof the old Hindu conception of the material imiverse,and was popular for a time, has, however, long sincebeen rejected. Alcyone culminates at (f?M., December
The call of the stars; a popular introduction to a knowledge of the starry skies with their romance and legend . rough eternity. It is supposed to be sixty times more brilliant thanSirius, and is famous as being the star which the Ger-man astronomer Madler, some sixty years ago, imaginedto be the centre of revolution of the universe—theplace of the Almighty, the Mansion of the Eternal!Madlers fascinating theory, which was largely a revivalof the old Hindu conception of the material imiverse,and was popular for a time, has, however, long sincebeen rejected. Alcyone culminates at (f?M., December31st. The star, Maia, has an invisible companion,detectable by the spectroscope. The chief stars of the Pleiades are of the sirian type,and are drifting across the heavens in the same generaldirection. They are supposed to be about two himdredand fifty light years distant, and are receding from thesolar system at the rate of twenty-five miles a cluster is, by some, considered to be even largerthan the Greater Bear. Modem photographs show theentire group to be completely enshrouded in a magnifi-. Yerkes Observatory Plate XVII. The Nebulosities of the Pleiades (In these wonderful nebulosities several instances have been found of starand nebula radiating light of identical quality.) The Night-Sky of Winter 177 cent tracery of nebulous matter (Plate XVIL), whichstretches in curious wisps and streaks from star to this wonderful mass of apparently intertwistednebulas, or cosmical fog, which for ages may havebeen condensing into stars, a great system is possiblydeveloping and is already in the last stages of its forma-tion. Or again, it may be, as some astronomers haveasserted, that what is seen is radiant matter ejectedfrom these great and far-off orbs, just as rare gaseousmatter is driven away from the sun to form its corona,but on an inconceivably more colossal scale. To the Greeks, the Pleiades were the daughters ofAtlas and Pleione, and nymphs of Dianas tra
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