BJ 1611

M 43

1874

BY THE SAME AUTHOR.

THE GREAT CONVERSERS,

And other Essays.

1 Volume, 12mo. Price, $1.75.

"He writes with great force and beauty."- Albany Evening Journal.

His style is brilliant and captivating, and his myriads of illustrative anecdotes are invariably happily chosen and judiciously used."- Liverpool Albion, England.

"A master in the art of elegant composition. In his hand the driest and most commonplace theme would glow with life and beauty."-REV. A. HUELSTER, PH. D., Prof. of Greek, Northwestern College, Ill.

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GETTING ON IN THE WORLD;

OR,

HINTS ON SUCCESS IN LIFE.

BY

WILLIAM MATHEWS, LL. D.,

PROFESSOR OF RHETORIC AND ENGLISH LITERATURE IN THE UNIVERSITY
OF CHICAGO.

Fungar vice cotis, acutum

Reddere quæ ferrum valet, exsors ipsa secandi.

HORACE.

Do not shun this maxim as commonplace. On the contrary, take the closest heed of what observant men, who would probably like to show originality, are yet constrained to repeat. Therein lies the marrow of the wisdom of the world. - ARTHUR HELPS.

1874.

W. W. Beman

6- 123-1923

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1872,

BY SAMUEL C. GRIGGS,

in the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington.

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