interesting. The character of correspondence that comes to The Mentor is extraordinary. It is the natural response to the offer of service that The Mentor extends. The keynote of The Mentor Association plan is helpful service. Our mail shows that there is a large public that is eager and earnest in its desire to benefit by this service. It seemed to us that we could not express the spirit of The Mentor better than by quoting literally the phrase that defines the word—“a guide and friend.”

In return The Mentor reader can be in the full sense a guide and friend to us. There must be an exchange in order to get the greatest good out of an educational plan. You can help us if you do as many others have done—write and tell us what you think of The Mentor. A number of valuable suggestions have come to us in the mail. Under the stimulus of the encouragement that we have had from so many we are broadening the plan in the future. Our new prospectus, just finished, will tell you fully about this. It is not simply a magazine subscription that we are concerned with. We offer a membership in an Association that brings many advantages. There is a saying, “It is a good thing to be doing a good thing, and it is a good thing to know that you are.” We know that The Mentor is a good thing, and it is a good thing to be told so by so many. A member of our Advisory Board, Dr. Hamilton W. Mabie, wrote us recently: “The Mentor is really a triumph of high class work and popular treatment. I believe that the very best things can be given to people in the very best way, not by writing down, but simply by using standard language instead of technical language. The more I think of the whole enterprise, the more I believe in it.”

We want to know what you think of The Mentor, and we want you to tell us how we can be of benefit to you as a member of the Association. Our service is not complete in simply sending you The Mentor and the pictures week by week. We can bring you in touch with our Advisory Board, so that you may have the best advice in matters of side reading, and intelligent direction as to the organization and conducting of reading clubs; also expert information concerning books and pictures that bear on the topics in The Mentor. In the day’s mail we find one inquiry from a member of a reading club who wants to know what side reading she should take up to prepare for an evening on “American Landscape Painters.” The copy of The Mentor treating that subject is to be the core and center of the evening’s reading. The writers of authority associated with us enable us to give our correspondent the benefit of the best advice.

Another writer asks for a selection of pictures suitable for wall decoration in the schoolroom, leaving it to us to suggest appropriate subjects. This is the sort of inquiry that we delight in, and we can help of course, for we have a great store of good art material, to which we are adding each week and from which a wide variety of subjects can be selected.

RUFFED GROUSE

COPYRIGHTED BY LOUIS AGASSIZ FUERTES, 1906