15 OCTOBER 1898, Page 25

The Observer's Atlas of the Heavens. By William Beck. (Gall

and Inglis.)—In this volume we have thirty well-executed star- charts "in which nine thousand objects are accurately depicted, embracing the whole Star Sphere, and showing nearly every Constellation complete in itself." A preliminary explanation of the charts is given, and there is a catalogue of the double stars, which are also separately figured. Other useful lists and catalogues are supplied. Star-Clusters, Stellar Magnitudes, and "Positions of the More Important Stars for Epoch 1890," each star having its number in Flamsteed's Catalogue, and the B. A. C, given, with magnitude, Right Ascension and Declination. There are, Mr. Beck tells us, 8,282 stars of all magnitudes visible to the naked eye.