And since the word “library” has been used, let us follow that just a bit further. The Mentor may well become _yourself_ in library form. Does that statement seem odd? Then let us put it this way: The Mentor is a cumulative library for you, each day, each week--a library that grows and develops as you grow and develop--a library that has in it just the things that you want to know and ought to know--and nothing else. Day by day and week by week you add with each number of The Mentor something to your mental growth. You add it as you add to your stature--by healthy development; and the knowledge that you acquire in this natural, agreeable way becomes a permanent possession. You gather weekly what you want to know, and you have it in an attractive, convenient form. It becomes thus, in every sense, _your_ library, containing the varied things that you know. And you have its information and its beautiful pictures always ready to hand to refer to and to refresh your mind. * * * * * So in time your assembled numbers of The Mentor will represent in printed and pictorial form the fullness of your own knowledge. [Illustration: NAPOLEON AT ARCOLE--BY ANTOINE JEAN GROS] NAPOLEON AT ARCOLE, from the painting by Antoine Jean Gros, is the subject of one of the intaglio-gravure pictures illustrating “Napoleon Bonaparte.” MONDAY DAILY READING IN THE MENTOR COURSE PREPARED BY THE EDITORIAL STAFF OF THE MENTOR ASSOCIATION AT THE BRIDGE AT ARCOLE “Follow your general!” was the cry with which young Bonaparte urged his army to victory at Arcole. He was only twenty-seven years old at the time--and yet was commander in chief of the army of Italy. The years that brought Napoleon into prominence had been troublous ones. He was born in Corsica, and in moderate circumstances. The exact date of his birth is uncertain. At school he said it was 1768. It is stated that he gave this date because that made him a citizen of Genoa, inasmuch as Corsica was at that time a dependency of Genoa. Later on he said that he was born in 1769; for Corsica had then become a French possession, and this made him a Frenchman by birth. After early schooling at Brienne young Napoleon entered the military academy of Paris in 1784. After a year he was commissioned as a sublieutenant in the regular army, and made rapid progress from the start. As lieutenant colonel he distinguished himself in the wars of Spain. He held the mobs boldly and in masterful manner during the turbulent scenes in the early days of the Revolution. Barras, a high official, recognized his military genius and gave Bonaparte command of the army of Italy.