discipline which awaits them, touches me to tears. Their dawning sun gilds only the mountain-tops of life, and leaves the blind defiles and dismal gorges for their weary feet to find, through years of patient or fretful travel. To tell them how to perform this journey worthily, and to do it hand in hand, in harmonious companionship, I have written these letters. It has been with me an honest and earnest work, in the object of which I am sure that you will sympathize. I only hope that you will find little to criticise and nothing to condemn, in the nature and style of the means by which I have sought to accomplish it.

II. Female Society-The Woman for a Wife,

III. Manners and Dress,

V. The Blessings of Poverty-Office and Effect of a

Profession,

VI. Food and Physical Culture,

VII. Social Duties and Privileges,

VIII. The Reasonableness and Desirableness of Religion.

LETTERS TO YOUNG WOMEN.

L Dress Its Proprieties and Abuses,

II. The Transition from Girlhood to Womanhood, .

III. Acquisitions and Accomplishments,

IV. Unreasonable and Injurious Restraints,

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V. The Claims of Love and Lucre,

VI. The Prudent and Proper Use of Language,

VII. Housewifery and Industry,

VIII. The Beauty and Blessedness of Female Piety,

LETTERS TO YOUNG MARRIED PEOPLE.

L. The First Essential Duties of the Connubial Relation, 167

II. Special Duties of the Husband,

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IV. The Rearing of Children. .

V. Separation-Family Relatives-Servants, .

VI. The Institution of Home,.

VII. Social Homes, and Blessings for Daily Use,

VIII. A Vision of Life and its Meaning..

LETTERS TO YOUNG MEN.

LETTER I.

I

GETTING THE RIGHT START.

In idle wishes fools supinely stay,

Be there a will, then wisdom finds a way.

BURNS.

SUPPOSE that the first great lesson a young

man should learn is that he knows nothing; and that the earlier and more thoroughly this lesson is learned, the better it will be for his peace of mind and his success in life. A young man, bred at home, and growing up in the light of parental admiration and fraternal pride, cannot readily understand how it is that every one else can be his equal in talent and acquisition. If, bred in the country, he seeks the life of the town, he will very early obtain an idea of his insignificance. After putting on airs and getting severely laughed at, going into a bright and facile society and finding himself awkward and tongue-tied, undertaking