The following is a list of works upon topics treated in this text-book, which have been consulted in its preparation, and which may be useful to students: _Self-Culture_, by John Stuart Blackie. Edinburgh: David Douglas. Twentieth edition. 1892. _Plain Living and High Thinking, or Practical Self-Culture--Moral, Mental and Physical_, by W. H. Davenport Adams. London: John Hogg, Paternoster Row. 1880. _The Secret of Success_, by W. H. Davenport Adams. London: John Hogg, Paternoster Row. 1880. _The Threshold of Life_, by W. H. Davenport Adams. T. Nelson & Sons, Paternoster Row. 1876. _On the Threshold_, by Theodore T. Munger. London: Ward, Lock & Co. 1888. _Beginning Life_, by John Tulloch, D.D. London: Chas. Burnet & Co. 1883. _Life: a Book for Young Men_, by J. Cunninghame Geikie. London: Strahan & Co. 1870. _The Gentle Life_, by J. Hain Friswell. London: Sampson Low & Marston. 1870. _Self-Culture_, by James Freeman Clarke. Boston: J. R. Osgood & Co. 1881. _Life Questions_, by M. J. Savage. Boston: Lockwood, Brooks & Co. 1879. _Elements of Morality, for Home and School Teaching_, by Mrs. Chas. Bray. London: Longmans, Green & Co. 1863. _The Family and its Duties_, by Robert Lee, D.D. London: Longmans, Green & Co. 1863. _Christianity in its Relation to Social Life_, by Rev. Stephen J. Davis. London: Religious Tract Society. _Home Life_, by Marianne Farningham. London: James Clarke & Co. _The Domestic Circle_, by the Rev. John Thomson. London: Swan Sonnenschein & Co. 1886.