Photograph from Mary Mills Patrick 

 AN OLD TURKISH BRIDGE NEAR BRUSA 

 The silting up of the river beds in the Near East shows the deplorable effects of deforestation. 



Photograph by Cass Arthur Reed 

 THE CARRIAGE, THE CAMEL TRAIN, THE GREEK PRIEST SEATED SERENELY ASTRIDE 

 A DIMINUTIVE DONKEY, AND THIT PEDESTRIAN'S ARE ALL 

 TYPICAL OF MODERN SMYRXA 



This city, like six others of Greece, the iEgean archipelago, and Asia Minor, lays claim 

 to the distinction of being Homer's birthplace. The poet was once worshiped here in a 

 magnificent building known as the Homerenm. 



