74 Star ant) KHeatber 



heralding the day, and had emerged from behind 

 the cloud-bank into the pearly light of dawn, and 

 there she shone, dazzling to look upon. 



And here are some notes of a Northern night-sky 

 which I took under the stars on Saturday, March 4th, 

 1911 : "How exquisite the scene in the south-west 

 this evening of early March ! The crescent moon ; 

 Saturn closely attendant upon her ; the big silver 

 lamp of Venus showing them to their setting. That 

 wonderful earthlight on the moon, too ! Is it cendree, 

 ashen ? Or olive-coloured, as Lambert described it 

 well over a century ago ? It is both by turns ; ashy, 

 when in the deepening twilight it timidly insinuates 

 itself on the fascinated sight ; olive, when darkness at 

 length has crept upon the earth, and lordly Orion and 

 the rest of the winter constellations blaze out in all 

 their glittering splendour. A charming nocturne ! 

 The memory of such scenes as these dies only with 

 death itself." 



