The Mentor Association
Reading edition
ESTABLISHED FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF A POPULAR INTEREST IN ART, LITERATURE, SCIENCE, HISTORY, NATURE, AND TRAVEL
CONTRIBUTORS—PROF. JOHN C. VAN DYKE, HAMILTON W. MABIE, PROF. ALBERT BUSHNELL HART, REAR ADMIRAL ROBERT E. PEARY, WILLIAM T. HORNADAY, DWIGHT L. ELMENDORF, HENRY T. FINCK, WILLIAM WINTER, ESTHER SINGLETON, PROF. G. W. BOTSFORD, IDA M. TARBELL, GUSTAV KOBBÉ, DEAN C. WORCESTER, JOHN K. MUMFORD, W. J. HOLLAND, LORADO TAFT, KENYON COX, E. H. FORBUSH, H. E. KREHBIEL, SAMUEL ISHAM, BURGES JOHNSON, STEPHEN BONSAL, JAMES HUNEKER, W. J. HENDERSON, AND OTHERS.
The purpose of The Mentor Association is to give its members, in an interesting and attractive way, the information in various fields of knowledge which everybody wants to have. The information is imparted by interesting reading matter, prepared under the direction of leading authorities, and by beautiful pictures, produced by the most highly perfected modern processes.
THE MENTOR IS PUBLISHED TWICE A MONTH
BY THE MENTOR ASSOCIATION, INC., AT 52 EAST NINETEENTH STREET, NEW YORK, N. Y. SUBSCRIPTION, THREE DOLLARS A YEAR. FOREIGN POSTAGE 75 CENTS EXTRA. CANADIAN POSTAGE 50 CENTS EXTRA. SINGLE COPIES FIFTEEN CENTS. PRESIDENT, THOMAS H. BECK; VICE-PRESIDENT, WALTER P. TEN EYCK; SECRETARY, W. D. MOFFAT; TREASURER, ROBERT M. DONALDSON; ASST. TREASURER AND ASST. SECRETARY, J. S. CAMPBELL
COMPLETE YOUR MENTOR LIBRARY
Subscriptions always begin with the current issue. The following numbers of The Mentor Course, already issued, will be sent postpaid at the rate of fifteen cents each
Serial No.
Beautiful Children in Art
Makers of American Poetry
Washington, the Capital
Beautiful Women in Art
Romantic Ireland
Masters of Music
Natural Wonders of America
Pictures We Love to Live With
The Conquest of the Peaks
Scotland: The Land of Song and Scenery
Cherubs in Art
Statues With a Story
The Discoverers
London
The Story of Panama
American Birds of Beauty
Dutch Masterpieces
Paris, the Incomparable
Flowers of Decoration
Makers of American Humor
American Sea Painters
The Explorers
Sporting Vacations
Switzerland: The Land of Scenic Splendors
American Novelists
American Landscape Painters
Venice, the Island City
The Wife in Art
Great American Inventors
Furniture and Its Makers
Spain and Gibraltar
Historic Spots of America
Beautiful Buildings of the World
Game Birds of America
The Contest for North America
Famous American Sculptors
The Conquest of the Poles
Napoleon
The Mediterranean
Angels in Art
Famous Composers
Egypt, the Land of Mystery
The Revolution
Famous English Poets
Makers of American Art
The Ruins of Rome
Makers of Modern Opera
Dürer and Holbein
Vienna, the Queen City
Ancient Athens
The Barbizon Painters
Abraham Lincoln
George Washington
Mexico
Famous American Women Painters
The Conquest of the Air
Court Painters of France
Holland
Our Feathered Friends
Glacier National Park
Michelangelo
American Colonial Furniture
American Wild Flowers
Gothic Architecture
The Story of the Rhine
Shakespeare
American Mural Painters
Celebrated Animal Characters
Japan
The Story of the French Revolution
Rugs and Rug Making
Alaska
Charles Dickens
Grecian Masterpieces
Fathers of the Constitution
Masters of the Piano
American Historic Homes
Beauty Spots of India
Etchers and Etching
Oliver Cromwell
China
Favorite Trees
Yellowstone National Park
Famous Women Writers of Engl'd
Painters of Western Life
China and Pottery of Our Forefathers
The Story of The American Railroad
Butterflies
The Philippines
The Louvre
William M. Thackeray
Grand Canyon of Arizona
Architecture in American Country Homes
The Story of The Danube
Animals in Art
The Holy Land
John Milton
Joan of Arc
Furniture of the Revolutionary Period
The Ring of the Nibelung
The Golden Age of Greece
Chinese Rugs
The War of 1812
The National Gallery, London
Masters of the Violin
American Pioneer Prose Writers
Old Silver
Shakespeare's Country
Historic Gardens of New England
The Weather
American Poets of the Soil
Argentina
Game Animals of America
Raphael
Walter Scott
The Yosemite Valley
John Paul Jones
Russian Music
Chile
Rembrandt
Southern California: The Land of Sunshine
Keeping Time
NUMBERS TO FOLLOW
February 1. GEMS. By Esther Singleton, Author.
February 15. THE ORCHESTRA. By W. J. Henderson, Author and Music Critic.
THE MENTOR ASSOCIATION, Inc.
52 EAST 19th STREET, NEW YORK, N. Y.
THE MENTOR
LITTLE VISITS TO THE BEAUTY SPOTS OF THE WORLD
Nothing is more broadening than travel. To see foreign lands, to study individual characters, their manners, their mode of living, means a wider appreciation of the world, a broadening of your view-point of life. These particular Mentors, therefore, are extremely valuable.
ROMANTIC IRELAND By Dwight L. Elmendorf
SCOTLAND, THE LAND OF SONG AND SCENERY By Dwight L. Elmendorf
SWITZERLAND By Dwight L. Elmendorf
SPAIN AND GIBRALTAR By Dwight L. Elmendorf
THE MEDITERRANEAN By Dwight L. Elmendorf
PARIS, THE INCOMPARABLE By Dwight L. Elmendorf
EGYPT, THE LAND OF MYSTERY By Dwight L. Elmendorf
HOLLAND By Dwight L. Elmendorf
JAPAN By Dwight L. Elmendorf
BEAUTY SPOTS OF INDIA By Dwight L. Elmendorf
CHINA By Dwight L. Elmendorf
THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS By Dean C. Worcester
THE HOLY LAND By Dwight L. Elmendorf
SHAKESPEARE'S COUNTRY By William Winter
SEND AT ONCE FOR THIS TRAVEL SET
This set will be sent you upon receipt of request. They cost $2.10. Send no money, merely a post card indicating that you desire this Travel Set. A bill will follow in due course. Address your request to
SECRETARY, THE MENTOR ASSOCIATION 52 East Nineteenth Street . . New York City
MAKE THE SPARE MOMENT COUNT