WORDS FOR THE WISE.
BYT. S. ARTHUR.
PHILADELPHIA:
LIPPINCOTT, GRAMBO & CO.
NO. 14 NORTH FOURTH STREET.
1851.Entered according to act of Congress, in the year 1851, by T. S. ARTHUR, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. Stereotyped by L. Johnson & Co. Philadelphia. Printed by T. K. & P. G. Collins.
PREFACE.
THE title of this book—"WORDS FOR THE WISE"—is too comprehensive to need explanation. May the lessons it teaches be "sufficient" as warnings, incentives and examples, to hundreds and thousands who read them.
page: 4-5 (Table of Contents) [View Page 4-5 (Table of Contents) ]CONTENTS.
- THE POOR DEBTOR 7
- THE SUNDAY CHRISTIAN 20
- I KNEW HOW IT WOULD BE 31
- JACOB JONES; OR, THE MAN WHO COULDN'T GET ALONG IN THE WORLD 46
- STARTING A NEWSPAPER. AN EXPERIENCE OF MR. JONES 65
- THE WAY OF TRANSGRESSORS 85
- JUST GOING TO DO IT 101
- MAKING HASTE TO BE RICH 125
- LET HER POUT IT OUT 142
- A FINE, GENEROUS FELLOW 162
- TAKING IT FOR GRANTED 184
- LOVE AND LAW 199
