266 THROUGH LIBRARY WINDOWS 



They were familiar with the Zodiac and its 

 signs; they located the planets, the constella- 

 tions were known and named. Then naturally 

 there came their real or supposed influence on 

 human lijfe and character and destiny. There 

 are phases of it most bewitching still. 



Star study is full of intense interest to the 

 amateur. When once we know a star or planet, 

 or constellation, how eager for additional 

 knowledge, how relishful the nightly observa- 

 tion, what a race-course for the imagination. 

 We know the constellations and can easily find 

 them through the changing year, but the study 

 reaches ever out and new discoveries are made, 

 new knowledge gained, new thoughts come of 

 it and new joys are born. The beauty, the 

 mystery and the magic of the heavens grow 

 upon us and pay the sixty and one hundred fold 

 of interest. One can never be alone if famil- 

 iarly acquainted with the stars. He may rise 

 early in the summer morning and see his win- 

 ter friends, in winter he may gladden his heart 

 with his genial summer acquaintances. How 

 sensitive and sympathetic the human spirit in 

 studying these infinite problems of a vast uni- 

 verse. By all such study, life means more and 

 correlation with its forces and purposes are 



