17 NOVEMBER 1888, Page 46

Old and New Astronomy. By R. A. Proctor. Part I.

(Longmans and Co.)—This introduction to astronomy, the first of a series of monthly numbers, is written in the late Mr. Proctor's usual pleasant and instructive style. His remarks are couched in a manner worthy of astronomy, and inculcate the distinction between the philo- sophic and the mercantile astronomer. What Mr. Proctor had to say of the old astronomy, as represented by the Great Pyramid and the Delhi Observatories, possesses a vital interest for modern observers, and should stimulate them to obtain the thoroughness and accuracy so conspicuously possessed by the old observers.