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[April 6, 1911 



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piMir 111 nnlciKiuii (li-sci u ,111(1 ,i(Kiiil 111 I > in uii- 

 lr;i\ II M-il pallia." 



Ndl, liouiAir, iiiilil hill I. Ill w.is |i.i-.s( (I (!(..> li. 

 rcicli till' ilc-iil wiih uiiirh ilii- l)nok ni.iinlv ili.ils. 



.■liul (111 W ilich llir ll.l\r!lir (.llll|)((l (l;i\ ,illi| <l,i\ l.ii 

 si\r|;il mmilli-^, (Milil in^ ,ll llir |i\\ i,,i~,.v, |n llir^i- 



l.illiT il u.i-> 1 1(1 ,1^'h >M,ill\ jxi^'^iMi- 111 (.iiii|i iiiidrr ilii- 

 p.iliiis. will 11- "llir -~iiiL;in;; liiid^ whlcli tuitlcrcd diii- 

 iiiti the d.i\ .111- ^ili'iil. I hi- j,irl-;.ils slarl ;i incliiiu ImK 

 MiriKidi, and ihr Niili |il,iiiiii\' ^.f till' dc^cri 



\ilir.iii-, lhi"iiui;li llir ni;;lii." iscs arc n<il 



• iiliiilv plca^uraliii'. I lir\ air iiii'-ii'i, rs|)rcial!\ 1)\ 



I ' |,l,r II ■>ii|)ports Sii 



I n I\iii li-lxiian and I ebbcs, ill 



|,i' ir niiKJiin \'\<\\ lit ( 'oli>neI Skyes 



ami iiiiiM^. iiiai il x^ a s l»\ \ailiriid. It i>> interesting 

 aU(. II. Iiiid thai I'lilo's dr -( ripiiun cf ffiis desert "is 

 a - I . ,i 1 1 I I 111 t\\ as in till- 



I >i III din's alluring ! »ration o( 



I imlirii inlnrst ,:i;,l i i i ipi ,i !ai ii i in itSClf, is 



II III iiilnrs! |(,| llir j,'(-nrral reader as well. 

 Ml- mniirii.ii- slvctchcs .'ind (olourrd iliiistrxitions are 

 adiniraiili and characteristic, hut his photoj*raphs are 

 fxceplioiialis 1)( autiful. 'J lu v far surpass in artistic 



tiiirc \ riiiinii.iis crraluies: (11 a i|radl\ snal<r. ( .• ) ; and terimiial excellence anvtliin;; to be found in 



sc(ir|)iiins, lilacl< and wliilr, and i;l a pnisunnns taran- I previous Imuks on those ret^ions. '["he publishers are 



rula spitirr. which |i\rs nni in tlir drsrii, Imt is ; to be tdiiL^raUilated (in theii' s[)iendid reproduction of 



attracted by tlie lii^lii of the camp lircs. j these pictures, and on tiic altractive apj^earance gener- 



FiG. 3. — The Village of Chahrdeh. From "Overland to India. 



Wolves levy a heavy tax upon the village flocks. 

 Thev are individually so well known to the shepherds 

 that each of theni has received names, and their 

 haunts are well known. They even attack the camels : 

 "they leap on to the camel's back and crawl down 

 to his neck and tear his throat." Although it was 

 reported that wild camels existed, "no one had ever 

 seen them." 



The northern limit of the date palm was found at 

 Tebbes. Beyond this no palm-groves are met with, 

 only a few single specimens in well-protected sites. 

 At Tebbes, where, as throutjhout southern Persia, the 

 palm supplies the staple food and is otherwise of in- 

 estimable service to man, it was calculated that there 

 were 100,000 of the female tree — the male palms are 

 very much fewer in number, and ar(^ calh d ' nchr" 

 the same word which is used to denote a stallion 

 camel. 



]Marco Polo is believed to have passed through 

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ally of the book, which is certain to meet \\ ith a wide 

 and hearty welcome. 



Tin: VKOni.KM OF IXnrSTRIAl. TRMSISG. 

 T~^LRlN(.i the last 1\ w years ihr In ling has \nvn 

 *-^ steadily gnn\ ing that a lari^^e part of the money 

 spent on elementary education is wasted for the want 

 of a proper s\steni of educatiiHi in continuation 

 schools, whether day or evening, which should pre- 

 pare children for their future wmk. I'nemployment, 

 the decay of apprenticesliip due to the changed condi- 

 tions of labour, the increased number of occupations 

 for boys and girls which lead to no definite future, 

 and the bookish stvle of our elementary-school educa- 

 tion, have been responsible for this feeling of unrest 

 in the minds of all thinkiiii,'- lursons. Some have 

 suggested the reform of the elementar\ -school curri- 

 culum by making it more practical; others the rais- 



