10 MARCH 1877, page 20

Some Magazines.

THE first number of the Nineteenth Century is a very good one, though, perhaps, not quite equal to the exaggerated expectations naturally entertained. Englishmen are so little......

Comets.*

Tuvalu are few subjects at once more interesting or more perplexing than cometary astronomy. The remarkable ap- pearance presented by many comets, their strange apparent......