mental logic in distributing the subjects through the year.

And now we are asked how the schedule is made up. The selection of subjects begins with the editors. After considerable study a list is made that is large enough to form the basis of more than a year’s reading. This list is divided into departments, and the subjects in each department are submitted to the member of our Editorial Board who has that department in charge. In a number of cases changes are made and new subjects are suggested by the members of the Advisory Board. Not only are the subjects of the articles determined under their supervision, but the names of the writers are often suggested by them, and in many cases the illustrations are selected under their direction. The association of the members of the Advisory Board with the Editors of The Mentor is close and continuous. We give the readers of The Mentor the direct benefits of this association.

But our answer would be incomplete if it failed to include mention of a most interesting source of suggestion—the readers of The Mentor. It is a great pleasure to say this, for it is the best evidence in the world of the coöperative spirit that exists in The Mentor Association. That is the spirit we seek.

We have had some of the most valuable suggestions from Mentor readers. Only last week we received a letter from an interested reader who had been following the historical articles in The Mentor. She wanted to know what we had in store for a lover of history. She suggested that it would be interesting to take up history from several special points of view—the great historic rivers for example. The idea is good. Think of the historic value and of the human interest in the story of the Rhine; the story of the Nile; the story of the Danube; the story of the Mississippi! The great rivers of the world have borne some of the most important historic events along on their currents. We are planning a set of articles on this subject.

This is but one case in which a reader of The Mentor has helped us. We could cite many others. And in acknowledging them we want to express our heartfelt appreciation of the earnest interest shown by our readers in The Mentor. Our mail brims over with it every day.

LADY WENTWORTH, by John Singleton Copley—Lenox Library, N. Y.