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r^THER WORLDS THAN OURS: The Plurality 

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Contents.— Introduction. — What the Earth teaches us.— What we learn from 

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 Arctic Planets.— The Moon and other Satellites.— Meteors and Comets : their Office 

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f^UR PLACE AMONG LNEINITLES. A Series 



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Jewish Sabbath and Astrology. i2mo. Cloth, $1.75. 



Contents.— Past and Future of the Earth.— Seeming Wastes in Nature.— New 

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Contents,— A Dream that was not all a Dream.— The Sun.— The Queen of 

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^HE MOON : Her Motions, Aspect, Scenery, and 



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Contents.— The Moon's Distance, Size, and Mass.— The Moon's Motions.— 

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