PEE PACE, 



NoW'A-DAYS a non-literary practical man, 

 if tolerably successful in any specially, must 

 do one of tAvo things. He either must keep 

 his own counsel and reticently go on, making 

 what profit he may, or he must be prepared 

 daily to answer a thousand-and-one questions 

 by mouth, and by letter, conscious that his 

 " pursley " is getting ahead of him, while he 

 casts and recasts multitudinous counsels from 

 his one little mould of experience. 



There is a way of evading these alterna- 

 tives, though it may call for a radical change 

 in the nature of the aforesaid practical man. 

 He can go into a book, there say whatever he 

 has to say, and, going out again (backward at 

 the preface) , explain humbly : friends, you 

 will find it all in this volume. I've been as 

 matter-of-fact and explicit as possible, avoid- 



