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"There is only |." Editor's note: Or all things disregard or deny that which will eventually invade and destroy them-- Until comes the day when some one thing shall say, and enforce upon Infinitude: "Thus far shalt thou go: here is absolute demarcation." The final utterance: In the Monthly Notices of the R.A.S., 11-48, there is a letter from the Rev. W. Read: That, upon the 4th of September, 1851, at 9:30 A.M., he had seen a host of self-luminous bodies, passing the field of his telescope, some slowly and some rapidly. They appeared to occupy a zone several degrees in breadth. The direction of most of them was due east to west, but some moved from north to south. The numbers were tremendous. They were observed for six hours. "May not these appearances be attributed to an abnormal state of the optic nerves of the observer?" In Monthly Notices, 12-38, Mr. Read answers that he had been a diligent observer, with instruments. of a superior order, for about 28 years--"but | have never witnessed such an appearance before." As to illusion he says that two other members of his family had seen the objects. The Editor withdraws his suggestion.