This is the only work of its kind. No other single author has visited all the countries of the world and written on the spot, in plain and simple language, the story of what he has found. CARPENTER’S WORLD TRAVELS are not the casual record of incidents of the journey, but the painstaking study of a trained observer, devoting his life to the task of world-wide reporting. Each book is complete in itself; together they form the most vivid, interesting, and understandable picture of our modern world yet published. They are the fruit of more than thirty years of unparalleled success in writing for the American people through the medium of their greatest newspapers. They are a fitting climax to Mr. Carpenter’s distinguished services to the teaching of geography in our public schools, which have used some four million copies of the Carpenter Geographical Readers. In the present state of the world, a knowledge of its countries and peoples is essential to an understanding of what is going on, of how all that is happening affects us, and why. Carpenter takes his readers to the lands of the news, and makes more real the daily flashes by cable and radio. A word to your bookseller, or a line to the publishers, will enable you to secure each volume of Carpenter’s World Travels as it appears. BIBLIOGRAPHY An enormous number of books on the Holy Land have been written, some few of which have become standard works, in spite of having been written a generation ago. Among these the most familiar, perhaps, are Dean Stanley’s “Sinai and Palestine,” in many editions, and G. A. Smith’s “Historical Geography of the Holy Land,” thirteenth edition, London, 1907, and the same author’s “Atlas of the Historical Geography of the Holy Land,” London, 1915. The following brief list is a selection from the most recent publications: BAEDEKER. “Syria and Palestine” Guidebook. London, 1912. BELL, GERTRUDE. “Syria.” London, 1919. BENTWICH, NORMAN. “Palestine and the Jews, Past, Present, and Future.” London, 1919. COPPING, ARTHUR E. “A Journalist in the Holy Land.” London, 1911. GORDON, BEN L. “New Judea: Jewish Life in Modern Palestine.” Philadelphia, 1919. GRANT, ELIHU. “Peasantry of Palestine.” New York, 1907. GREAT BRITAIN. “Handbook of Syria” (including Palestine) Prepared by Naval Intelligence Division, British Admiralty. London, 1921. “Syria and Palestine,” Historical section British Foreign Office—No. 60. London, 1921. HICHENS, ROBERT. “The Holy Land” illus. by Jules Guérin. New York, 1910. HILPRECHT, H. V. “Explorations in Bible Lands during the 19th Century.” Philadelphia, 1903. HUNTINGTON, ELLSWORTH. “Palestine and Its Transformation.” Boston, 1911. HYAMSON, A. M. “Palestine: the Rebirth of an Ancient People.” London, 1917. JASTROW, MORRIS. “Zionism and the Future of Palestine.” New York, 1919.