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PREFACE .
..A. BOOK can scared,)' be said to be uncalleu
for, aud certainly it is not of necessity render.
e~ uscle:,;~because other books on the same
gCllcral subject have preceded it. Every
man h.ll."I his proper gift of God; and with
Inod~ of thought yery much his own, and
connections and relations in life peculiar to
Jlim.::;clf, he lUay hope to reach some to whom
no similar work has found 11ccc.."S. nc~idc,::l,
it ::eems to the author that, though new prin-
cip1cl'1 and rules for the guidance of the young
may not w required, 'yet much can be done
to aid tLtlm in applying principles and rules
already understood to the exigencies of actual
life. 'l'hc WcWtrc of the rising race ill his
Own immediate neighborhood, and through
the country at large, h:tS long Geen to him an