CONTENTS 



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Hunting with the Lens, by Howard H. Cleaves i 



Young Japan, by Eliza R, Scidmore 36 



Explorers of a New Kind, by L. O. Howard, Chief of the Bureau of Entomology, 



U. S. Department of Agriculture 38 



The Need of Conserving the Beauty and Freedom of Nature, by Charles W. Eliot, 



President Emeritus of Harvard University 67 



The Unique Island of Mount Desert, by George B. Dorr, Ernest Howe Forbush, 



and M. L. Fernald 75 



A Book of Monsters, by David and Marian Fairchild 89 



Experiences in the Grand Canyon, by Ellsworth and Emery Kolb 99 



The Cape Cod Canal, by Commodore J. W. Miller 185 



Statistics of Populations, Armies and Navies of Europe 191 



The France of Today, by Major General A. W. Greely, U. S. Army 193 



Belgium : The Innocent Bystander, by William Joseph Showalter. 223 



The Foreign-born of the United States 265 



The Remarkable Growth of Europe During 40 Years of Peace, by O. P. Austin, 



Secretary of the National Geographic Society 272 



The German Nation 275 



Hungary : A Eand of Shepherd Kings, by C. Townley-Fullam 311 



England : The Oldest Nation of Europe, by Roland G. Usher, Professor of History, 



Washington University 303 



Young Russia: The Land of Unlimited Possibilities, by Gilbert H. Grosvenor, 



Director and Editor, National Geographic Society ;. 423 



Life in Constantinople, by H. G. Dwight 521 



Where Adam and Eve Lived, by Frederick and Margaret Simpich 546 



Mystic Nedjef : The Shia Mecca, by Frederick Simpich 589 



Impressions of Asiatic Turkey, by Stephen van Rensselaer Trowbridge 598 



Henry Gannett, President of the National Geographic Society, Biography of, by 



S. N. D. North 60^ 



The Most Historic Lands on Earth 615 



