Transcriber's Note: Inconsistent hyphenation and spelling in the original document have been preserved. Obvious typographical errors have been corrected. Italic text is denoted by _underscores_, bold text by =equal marks=. LEARN ONE THING EVERY DAY JANUARY 15 1919 SERIAL NO. 171 THE MENTOR ITALY UNDER WAR CONDITIONS By E. M. NEWMAN Lecturer and Traveler DEPARTMENT OF TRAVEL VOLUME 6 NUMBER 23 TWENTY CENTS A COPY TO ITALY You had to choose 'twixt liberty and guilt; There is no half-way house for human kind If human kind is still to breathe God's air. And so you placed your lips upon the hilt Of Freedom's sword, devoted soul with mind To this great task which frees sad Europe from despair. Hence we who loved and love you, Italy,... Send winged words of greeting. You are free; Sun-smitten the cloud that hid the soaring dome Of Liberty, your Palace and your Home. We who are free greet you from sea to sea. * * * * * Mazzini, Garibaldi, great Cavour Watch now and greet you from their timeless place, Whence they behold the growth of your great race Which so they knit that long it should endure. Spectators of eternity, whose pure, Untarnished brows recall their ancient grace, Behold them once again, and in them trace The soul of freedom, splendid, patient, sure! J. E. G. DE MONTMORENCY. In _The Contemporary Review_. THE MENTOR ASSOCIATION ESTABLISHED FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF A POPULAR INTEREST IN ART, LITERATURE, MUSIC, SCIENCE, HISTORY, NATURE, AND TRAVEL THE MENTOR IS PUBLISHED TWICE A MONTH BY THE MENTOR ASSOCIATION, INC., AT 114-116 EAST 16TH STREET, NEW YORK, N. Y. SUBSCRIPTION, FOUR DOLLARS A YEAR. FOREIGN POSTAGE 75 CENTS EXTRA. CANADIAN POSTAGE 50 CENTS EXTRA. SINGLE COPIES TWENTY CENTS. PRESIDENT, THOMAS H. BECK; VICE-PRESIDENT, WALTER P. TEN EYCK; SECRETARY, W. D. MOFFAT; TREASURER, J. S. CAMPBELL; ASSISTANT TREASURER AND ASSISTANT SECRETARY, H. A. CROWE. JANUARY 15, 1919 VOLUME 6 NUMBER 23 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. [Illustration: A BANK IN VENICE PROTECTED AGAINST ATTACK PHOTOGRAPH BY E. M. NEWMAN] _ITALY UNDER WAR CONDITIONS_ PREPARED SPECIALLY FOR THE MENTOR BY E. M. NEWMAN ILLUSTRATION FOR THE MENTOR, VOL. 6, No. 23, SERIAL No. 171 COPYRIGHT, 1919, BY THE MENTOR ASSOCIATION, INC. _The Business of War_ ONE