412 AN INTERESTING SUBJECT. 



Is, then, the corona simply the projection of these systems, 

 illuminated as they must be by an intensity of solar light 

 exceeding many hundred-fold that which illumines our summer 

 days, nay, in certain places, were raised by his heat to a state 

 of incandescence ? 



Such aie some of the questions which, it is hoped, the 

 eclipse of December 1870 will help to solve; and we think 

 our readers will admit that their importance justifies us in 

 looking forward to the approaching phenomenon with anxious 

 curiosity. The bounds of human knowledge are gradually 

 enlarging; and as they enlarge, they do but more vividly 

 illustrate the infinite wisdom and perfectness of the scheme 

 of creation. 



COLOURED STARS. 



Before bringing these pages to a close, and appending to 

 our description of Everyday Objects (everyday, but not com- 

 monplace) the word " Finis," we wish to direct the reader's 

 attention to the subject of coloured stars ; not because these 

 beautiful spheres can be fairly classed under our general title, 

 but because they serve to show the peculiar attractiveness and 

 novelty of scientific inquiry, and the wonderful results that 

 spring from the persevering study of God's universe. 



To the eye of the ordinary observer, one star seems much 

 like another; these "lamps of night" differ, indeed, in 

 brilliancy, in their distance from the earth, in their relative 

 magnitudes; but to all appearance they exhibit a complete 



