* TIME'S TELESCOPE FOR 1832 Is, as usual, a multifarious volume, and abounds with reading that must please all tastes.

All the telescopes and microscopes which man makes, curiously and cunningly as they are made, are clumsy things compared with the divine workmanship of the eye.

The telescope was a relic of the Civil War.

It is situated on Waterloo dock, and the pier of the observatory rests upon the sandstone of that region, The telescope is an equatorial; like many good instruments in our country, it is almost unused.

A large telescope is a great luxury, but it is an enormous expense, and not at all necessary for teaching....

Telescopes were braqués from every part of the ship upon this unhappy cask, which went bobbing up and down, very unconscious of the sensation it was creating.

If it is a pleasure to look through a telescope in an observatory, gradually increasing its powers until a dim nebula is resolved into a whole galaxy of separate stars, how much more when the nebula is one of language around you, and the telescope is your own more educated ear!

The telescopes used by Cook and Green were two reflecting ones made by Mr. J. Short.