Excerpt from The Poetry of Astronomy: A Series of Familiar Essays on the Heavenly Bodies

Many readers of Knowledge, in which Weekly Paper an effort has been made to bring scientific news and discoveries before the public in a cheap and trustworthy form, have asked me whether I could not publish cheaper editions of some of my own books. In the great majority of cases, the matter does not rest in my own hands, but having had an opportunity to purchase from Messrs. Smith, Elder, & Co., their rights in my three works, "The Borderland of Science, " "Science Byways, " and the "Poetry of Astronomy, " I have much pleasure in so far acceding to the above-named wishes, as to publish an edition of each of these works at two-thirds of their original price. Owing to the circumstance which led to this, I have thought it desirable to class those three books as the first three volumes of a series to be called the Knowledge Library. Most of the volumes of the series are to be republications of Essays by various Contributors to the Magazine from which the series takes its name.

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