AN ELEPHANT CLEARING LAND IN CEYLON 



Scenes from Every Land 



(FOURTH SERIES) 



200 Full -page I/lustrations, 24 Pages in Matchless Tour Colors, 20,000 Words of Descriptive Text 

 By GILBERT GROSVENOR, Editor National Geographic Magazine 



UPON A BETTER UNDERSTANDING OF GEOGRAPHY DE- 

 PENDS THE WORLD'S PERMANENT PEACE. Next to actual 

 travel, there is no better way to become acquainted with and understand 

 the viewpoints of the peoples of other countries than through seeing them. 

 We all cannot visit far-away peoples in person and meet them in the flesh, 

 but through the medium of true-to-life pictures we can approximate a personal 

 visit and learn much of their customs and conditions of life, which have so 

 important a bearing upon the formation of their opinions. No better collection 

 of such pictures exists than that contained in the National Geographic So- 

 ciety's "SCENES FROM EVERY LAND," where a careful selection of 200 

 remarkable illustrations is reproduced. 



The members of the National Geographic Society have the opportunity, through the 

 pictorial study of "humanized" geography, to know at first hand the peculiar character- 

 istics and customs of the peoples of many lands — a knowledge that broadens their vision 

 and makes them more sympathetic with the desire of other nations for enlightenment. 

 "SCENES FROM EVERY LAND" is a geographic pictorial gem. 



Today as never he fore it is a duty and a responsibility to possess a working knowledge 



