Rome is still the Rome familiar to travelers. Its hotels are filled, not with tourists, but with officers and their families. Its streets are still throbbing with life, it remains one of the most interesting cities on this spinning globe.
THE MENTOR · DEPARTMENT OF TRAVEL
SERIAL NUMBER 171
By courtesy of the Italian Embassy, Washington
A "BABY NEST"—A retreat for children of Italian soldiers in service
ITALY UNDER WAR
CONDITIONS
By E. M. NEWMAN, Traveler and Lecturer
MENTOR GRAVURES—A BANK IN VENICE, PROTECTED AGAINST ATTACK · A MARKET SQUARE IN ROME · AN ITALIAN KINDERGARTEN SHATTERED BY A BOMB · TAKING DOWN THE HORSES OF ST. MARK'S · CHURCH OF ST. MARK'S BOARDED UP FOR PROTECTION · PIAZZA DEL POPOLO, ROME
Entered as second-class matter March 10, 1913, at the postoffice at New York, N. Y., under the act of March 3, 1879. Copyright, 1919, by the Mentor Association, Inc.
ITALY has played a far more important part in the World War than is apparent to one who has not given the subject special consideration. The neutral nations have directed most of their thoughts to England and France. To do Italy full justice, the fact must be emphasized that she came into the war at a time when the Allies were in great need of her. The outlook for England and France was most serious when the Italian people, roused by love of liberty and democracy, demanded that their Government cast its lot with the Allies and declare war.