E ask every reader of this Magazine to recommend it to his 

 or her friends. During the year 1909 the publication will be 

 more entertaining, more instructive, more indispensable 

 than ever. In its educational value we believe the Magazine is un- 

 equalled by any other periodical. It ought to be taken by every public 

 and every school library in the United States and Canada. 



The following quotations are from letters by readers of the 

 National Geographic Magazine : 



"The Magazine seems, if possible, to grow more valuable and 

 more beautiful with every number." 



"There is always a happy time in my study when the National 

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 reveals to me more that it is important for a thinking American citizen 



to know." — From Andrew D. White., formerly Ambassador to Germany, Minister to 

 Russia, ex- President of Cornell University, etc. 



"The National Geographic Magazine is just long enough and 

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 say that I always read it through, which is more than I can say of 

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— From Edward Everett Hale, author oj '" The Man Without a Country." 



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