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December, 1911 
HOUSE AND GARDEN 
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A TRAVEL BOOK THAT TAKES YOU THERE 
The Real Palestine 
of To-day 
DR. LEWIS GASTON LEARY’S 
JUST READY 
First Volume of the 
“Blue Books of Travel” 
Devoted to the Human Side of Travel 
A scries filled with vivid descriptions that hold you fast, 
and striking illustrations that make each place live for you. 
Each book is of true educational worth, yet as wholly absorb¬ 
ing as a novel. Not the stereotyped guide book or mere 
colorless record of events. 
OUR EDUCATION is never complete. The more we 
travel the broader our education becomes, but many of us 
cannot travel, time does not allow. 
THE REAL PALESTIN E OF TO-DAY, as seen through 
the eyes of Dr. Leary, is an unfailing source of real education, 
and absorbing interest. From what land can more of educa¬ 
tional value be had, than Palestine, with its present day char¬ 
acteristics, the outgrowth of the successive influence of Persia, 
Macedonia, and Rome, before the Christian era, and the in¬ 
numerable latter-day conflicts between Christian and Moslem, 
the possession of the Holy Sepulchre? 
THOSE WHO HAVE READ Dr. Leary’s articles on Palestine need no 
assurance as to the real gripping interest with which he clothes the people, 
the customs, and the landmarks of this tiny land that is “Holy” alike to Jew, 
and Christian and Moslem. His residence for a time in Beirut gave ample 
opportunity for an unusually thorough study of the people themselves—their 
mode of life, their customs and prejudices, and this side of the subject is one 
that must always have the widest educational value. The author’s intimate 
knowledgeof the country’s legends—those that are well substantiated and those 
that are merely amusing—makes the book as entertaining as the best fiction. 
Copyright by Underwood & Underwood, N. Y. 
By the Sea of Galilee Where the Fishermen Draw Their Nets To-day as They Did in Biblical Times 
The following list of chapter headings proves The Real Palestine of To¬ 
day a book of uncommon worth: 
Tiny Palestine 
The Great South Road 
The Races and Religions 
The Oldest Church in the 
World 
The Mystery of Mach- 
pelah 
The Dome of the Rock 
The Wall of Tears 
The Heart of Christen¬ 
dom 
The Holy Fire 
Valleys and Tombs 
The Mount of Olives 
The River that Goes 
Down 
The Sea of Death 
The Backbone of Pales¬ 
tine 
The War-path of the 
Empires 
Greetings by the Way 
The Ring of the Gentiles 
The Glory of All Lands 
The Dike of God’s Delight 
Chronological Table 
The book is of convenient size — 5hf by 7 34 in. Bound in dark blue linen boards with a charming cover design in white, red and gold by George Hood, 
illustrations, besides maps of the whole country and of unportant sections of it at larger scale. Price, $ 1 , net, postage 10c. 
There are 64 pages of 
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AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS DECEMBER NUMBER 
T HE reader of AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS will find many important articles in the next issue of the magazine. 
This December number will contain a beautifully illustrated article on one of America’s loveliest gardens, a garden which, 
though planned and planted by one of our foremost landscape architects, is nevertheless full of suggestion and ideas that 
might be applied to the laying-out and making of even a very small garden by the amateur himself. The article will be accom¬ 
panied by ground diagrams and gives an indication of what AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS will present this coming 
year for the consideration of its readers. To this number one of the foremost authorities on the subject of textiles will contribute 
a most entertaining and helpful article on Oriental Rugs. Many persons imagine that genuine oriental rugs must necessarily be 
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which never can be too generally employed. Edward I. Farrington, the poultry expert and a writer of accepted authority, wili 
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issue has found pleasure in the various photographic reproductions of “friendly dooryards,” which the Editor hopes will serve 
as a little primer for stimulating home-building efforts in such directions, it is to be hoped that he will also find as much of 
interest in a similar feature that will occupy the middle pages of the magazine for December, a feature especially appropriate to 
the holiday season, as will be several other articles, including an essay by a New England writer of note on nature subjects. 
There will be other articles dealing with homes and gardens of distinction and the issue will be fully as interesting as the present 
one. “Good Taste in Decoration” will head the department established in the present issue called “Within the House,” and the 
j Garden Department will cover a variety of hints and suggestions useful to the home-builder and the garden maker, while some 
new, original and delicious Christmas dishes will be described in the “Plelps to the Housewife” Department. The December 
I number will be richly illustrated throughout. 
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