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snre, would ultimately result in disappointment and failure. 

 Those we have hitherto sent out have included the sons or 

 relatives of noblemen, officers, clergymen, solicitors, and 

 country and other gentlemen, and wards in Chancery, and. 

 we are happy to believe that in the case of many for whom 

 no suitable position could be found at home, we have been 

 instrumental in laying the foundation of a manly, honour- 

 able, and prosperous future. 



The system we have initiated has been very generally 

 commended, and our pamphlets describing it have been 

 prepared with a desire to place the matter candidly before 

 inquirers. In evidence that this object has been obtained, 

 quotations may be given from a few of the numerous 

 letters received from correspondents. A clergyman, in 

 writing on this subject, says : 



" I thank you for abstaining from inducing my son to go by 

 any highly. coloured representations of the life there." 



Another writer says of this publication : 



"It makes a most candid statement of the facts, dealing fairly 

 with both sides of the question. There is nothing in it to lead me 

 to expect too much without activity." 



A barrister says of the pamphlet : 



" So far as I can judge from its contents, the system you are 

 working upon is the only true one to command success.'* 



As to the desirability of the life, a gentleman writes : 



" A friend has placed in my hands a pamphlet containing your 

 prospectus (if I may so term it) of an ' occupation and business for 

 gentlemen's sons.' He did so knowing the great interest I had in 

 things American, acquired during a period of sixteen years' resi- 

 dence in the States, and also for the purpose of asking my advice 

 in the matter, in the interest of a friend of his. 



" I have perused the various documents with much interest, 

 and the scheme has my entire approval .... and if any- 

 thing I can say or write will induce any enterprising young man 

 to go out, I shall consider that I am conferring upon him a great 

 favour. 



" Your great difficulty, it strikes me, speaking from an English 

 standpoint, is to make them understand how the dignity of labour 

 is respected in the States . . . ." 





