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[colorized photographof a mosque and reflecting pool]

Photograph by Raja Deen Dayal & Sons

THE MIRRORED MINARETS OF HYDERABAD

Before the Moslem prays, he stops beside some placid pool which serves as his baptismal font and there prepares to testify to the greatness of this God. The mosque tanks of Islam mirror the beauty of sun-bathed scenes which men of their creed of forbidden to paint.

[photograph of a dock along the Ganges River]

Photograph Courtesy Dr. Alexander Graham Bell
ONE OF THE FAMOUS GHATS, OR LANDING PLACES, ON THE BANKS OF THE GANGES AT BENARES, THE HOLY CITY OF THE HINDUS
The flyers passed over this great city, noted alike for its age, its shrines and temples, and for its innumerable host of deformed beggars, who clutter its streets, soliciting alms from rich Hindus who elect to spend their declining years in its holy atmosphere