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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

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No.

  1. Beautiful Children in Art
  2. Makers of American Poetry
  3. Washington, the Capital
  4. Beautiful Women in Art
  5. Romantic Ireland
  6. Masters of Music
  7. Natural Wonders of America
  8. Pictures We Love to Live With
  9. The Conquest of the Peaks
  10. Scotland: The Land of Song and Scenery
  11. Cherubs in Art
  12. Statues With a Story
  13. The Discoverers
  14. London
  15. The Story of Panama
  16. American Birds of Beauty
  17. Dutch Masterpieces
  18. Paris, the Incomparable
  19. Flowers of Decoration
  20. Makers of American Humor
  21. American Sea Painters
  22. The Explorers
  23. Sporting Vacations
  24. Switzerland: The Land of Scenic Splendors
  25. American Novelists
  26. American Landscape Painters
  27. Venice, the Island City
  28. The Wife in Art
  29. Great American Inventors
  30. Furniture and Its Makers
  31. Spain and Gibraltar
  32. Historic Spots of America
  33. Beautiful Buildings of the World
  34. Game Birds of America
  35. The Contest for North America
  36. Famous American Sculptors
  37. The Conquest of the Poles
  38. Napoleon
  39. The Mediterranean
  40. Angels in Art
  41. Famous Composers
  42. Egypt, the Land of Mystery
  43. The Revolution
  44. Famous English Poets
  45. Makers of American Art
  46. The Ruins of Rome
  47. Makers of Modern Opera
  48. Dürer and Holbein
  49. Vienna, the Queen City
  50. Ancient Athens
  51. The Barbizon Painters
  52. Abraham Lincoln
  53. George Washington
  54. Mexico
  55. Famous American Women Painters
  56. The Conquest of the Air
  57. Court Painters of France
  58. Holland
  59. Our Feathered Friends
  60. Glacier National Park
  61. Michelangelo
  62. American Colonial Furniture
  63. American Wild Flowers
  64. Gothic Architecture
  65. The Story of the Rhine
  66. Shakespeare
  67. American Mural Painters
  68. Celebrated Animal Characters
  69. Japan
  70. The Story of the French Revolution
  71. Rugs and Rug Making
  72. Alaska
  73. Charles Dickens
  74. Grecian Masterpieces
  75. Fathers of the Constitution
  76. Masters of the Piano
  77. American Historic Homes
  78. Beauty Spots of India
  79. Etchers and Etching
  80. Oliver Cromwell
  81. China
  82. Favorite Trees
  83. Yellowstone National Park
  84. Famous Women Writers of Engl'd
  85. Painters of Western Life
  86. China and Pottery of Our Forefathers
  87. The Story of The American Railroad
  88. Butterflies
  89. The Philippines
  90. The Louvre
  91. William M. Thackeray
  92. Grand Canyon of Arizona
  93. Architecture in American Country Homes
  94. The Story of The Danube
  95. Animals in Art
  96. The Holy Land
  97. John Milton
  98. Joan of Arc
  99. Furniture of the Revolutionary Period
  100. The Ring of the Nibelung
  101. The Golden Age of Greece
  102. Chinese Rugs
  103. The War of 1812
  104. The National Gallery, London
  105. Masters of the Violin
  106. American Pioneer Prose Writers
  107. Old Silver
  108. Shakespeare's Country
  109. Historic Gardens of New England
  110. The Weather
  111. American Poets of the Soil
  112. Argentina
  113. Game Animals of America
  114. Raphael
  115. Walter Scott
  116. The Yosemite Valley
  117. John Paul Jones
  118. Russian Music
  119. Chile
  120. Rembrandt
  121. Southern California: The Land of Sunshine
  122. Keeping Time

NUMBERS TO FOLLOW

February 1. GEMS. By Esther Singleton, Author.

February 15. THE ORCHESTRA. By W. J. Henderson, Author and Music Critic.

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Transcriber's Notes
Last Page: Changed "Elmdneorf" to "Elmendorf."
(Orig: CHINA By Dwight L. Elmdneorf)
Page Two: Changed "amployment" to "employment."
(Orig: ample appreciation and amployment,)