“The table of contents gives such a bill of fare as will render the boy into whose hands this book falls eager to enjoy the feast prepared for him. We venture to predict for this charming book a popularity equal to ‘Self-Help.’... No better gift could be put into a boy’s hands, and it will become a standard work for the school library.”—_Scholastic World._ “Who the author of the book is, has been kept a secret, and the anonymity we regret, because the work is one with which no writer need be ashamed to identify his name and stake his reputation.”—_Edinburgh Daily Review._ “It is a boy’s book of the best style.”—_Aberdeen Journal._ WITH EIGHT PORTRAITS ON TONED PAPER. _Dedicated by permission to the Rt. Hon. W. E. GLADSTONE, M.P., &c._ Third edition, small crown 8vo., 384 pp., cloth, price 3s. 6d.; gilt edges, 4s. =Plain Living and High Thinking; or=, Practical Self-Culture: Moral, Mental, and Physical. By W. H. DAVENPORT ADAMS, Author of “The Secret of Success,” etc. PART I.—MORAL SELF-CULTURE. Chap. 1. At Home. ” 2. Life Abroad. ” 3. Character. ” 4. Conduct. PART II.—MENTAL SELF-CULTURE. Chap. 1. How to Read. Chaps. 2 to 9. Courses of Reading in English Poetry, History, Biography, Fiction, Travel and Discovery, Theology, Philosophy and Metaphysics, Miscellaneous Science and Scientific Text-Books. Chap. 10. How to Write: English Composition. PART III.—PHYSICAL SELF-CULTURE. “Mens sana in corpore sano.” “We like the thorough way in which Mr. Adams deals with ‘Self-Culture: Moral, Mental, and Physical.’ His chapter on the courtesies of home life, and the true relation between parent and child, is specially valuable nowadays. He certainly answers the question, ‘Is life worth living?’ in a most triumphant affirmative.”—_Graphic._ “Books for young men are constantly appearing—some of them genuine, earnest, and useful, and many of them mere products of the art of book-making. We have pleasure in saying that this volume by Mr. Adams deserves to take its place among the best of the first-mentioned class. It is fresh, interesting, varied, and, above all, full of common sense, manliness, and right principle.”—_Inverness Courier._ “Young men who wish to make something of themselves should invest seven sixpences in this most valuable volume.”—_Sword and Trowel._ “A better book of the class in all respects we have seldom had the pleasure to notice.... We cannot too strongly recommend it to young men.”—_Young Men’s Christian Association Monthly Notes._ “_A glimpse through Mr. Hogg’s catalogue shows how admirably he caters for the young of both sexes._”—WOLVERHAMPTON CHRONICLE. “The best book of the kind.” } “A complete Society Encyclopædia.” } _Vide Critical Notices._ With Frontispiece, small crown 8vo., 352 pp., handsomely bound in cloth price 3s. 6d.; gilt edges, 4s.