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lion's skin, <uid Andromeda, his bride, tbo rosy red 

 dawn ; but if so, the dead myth has passed tlirough 

 minds who could lill it with a human interest, and 

 so imbue it with the spirit of life. As in the story 

 of Pygmalion, it may be that that which was cold and 

 dead was the original; but surely for us, as for him, 

 the living Galatea is not only more worthy, but is more 

 i-eal and time than the lifeless marble whose form she 

 bore. So, we may still look upon Andromeda and 

 Perseus as no mere abstractions of natural phenomena, 

 but as the innocent persecuted maiden and her gallant 

 deliverer; the old romance, ever new and ever tiiic 

 throughout the ages of the world s long history. 



Two of the live constellations, Cassiopeia and Ccphous, 

 were touched upon in the lirst of these papers. The 

 chief stai-s of the group now under consideration are 



i.e., " elbow," Alpha Persei, marking the elbow of the 

 hero as the word denotes. These three bright stars form 

 the upj)cr points of a greater W just below the smaller, 

 more distinct W of Cassiopeia. The lower points of 

 tho \V are maaked by two stars. Alpha Persei, better 

 known as Algol, the " demon ' star, so called from its 

 wonderful variation, and Beta Trianguli, the brightest 

 star in the small but ancient constellation of the 

 Triangle. 



This little constellation, insignificant as it is in itself, 

 is of great importance, from tho evidence which it 

 supplies that the ancient constellations were the result 

 of deliberate design and forethought. Brown's remarks 

 on this i)oint are so just that I may be forgiven for 

 quoting them. Referring to the type of explanation 

 popular in a certain school, ho says: — -"They would 



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easy to find when once we have found Ca.ssiopeia. When 

 Cassiopeia is in the zenith, as she is about 10 o clock 

 at this time of the year, then may be seen, high up in 

 the sky, but slightly to the west of the meridian, four 

 stai-s marking out the corners of a figure which is 

 generally known from its shape as the square of Pegasus. 

 Taking the two upper stars of the square, which are 

 now known as Beta Pegasi and Alpha Androniedae. and 

 proceeding eastward, we find three bright stars at about ' 

 the distance apart from each other that the stars of the 

 square are, and which are respectively Beta and Gamma 

 Andromedae and Alpha Persei. The latter is readily 

 found. The Milky Way streams down from the zenith, 

 where Cassiopeia "is seated, to the east point of the 

 horizon ; and along its axis, a chain of bright stars run 

 down from Ca.'^iopeia. The brightest of these is Mirfak. 



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say that someone noticed these stars, saw they resembled 

 a triangle, called them the Triangle, and everyone else 

 followed suit; a pretended explanation which nicrely 

 repeats the fact that such a constellation exists." It 

 is clear, as Brown further points out, that there ai-e 

 hundreds of stars which might have been combined in 

 triangles, and which would have equally suggested such 

 a figure. Not a few would have suggested it much more 

 strongly ; as, for example, the stars in the head of 

 Taurus. The selection therefore of these by no means 

 conspicuous stars to form the constellation of the 

 Triangle is a strong indication that, not only the do- 

 signs, but their positions were matters of definite pur- 

 pose to the old constellation makers. 



The principal characteristics of the three constella- 

 tions. Andromeda, Pegasus and Perseus, as they are 



