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management ; and the author hopes that the 

 following pages will be of assistance in indicating 

 the means to the desired end. This little work 

 makes no pretension to a complete scientific ex- 

 position of the subject ; but the writer, strongly 

 impressed with the difficulty of first steps, has laid 

 before himself the modest attempt to smooth away 

 preliminary difficulties for such as need it. The 

 object sought to be attained is mainly the lay- 

 ing down of general principles, in such clear lan- 

 guage that one who had never before given the 

 subject a thought might rise from its perusal 

 with a good general idea of what to do and how 

 to do it. 



