INTRODUCTION. 



Most of us, on leaving school or college, are 

 anxious about our future career in the world, and 

 concerning how we are to live, and what will be 

 our occupations. Some young people who have 

 finished their education, find themselves in com- 

 fortable circumstances, and are apt to look forward 

 to an easy life ; but the majority have a hard 

 struggle before them, ere they can hope to be free 

 from cares and to be successful. Yet it usually 

 happens, that those youths starting with the very 

 best prospects, do not live so happily, usefully, and 

 well, as those who have to struggle with poverty, 

 and who casting aside inglorious ease, labour on 

 perseveringly. It is hard to believe, until the 

 experience of years brings its very practical proofs 



