The Tuftonian (Volume 22) (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1895 Excerpt: ... tions are offered which will admirably aid the student in an analysis of the dramatic motive and character, and in the appreciation of the essential poetry of the work. Every volume is complete in itself, and the text in every case is based upon that of the Globe edition. Aside from the typographical work of the text, which is a trifle crowded, the edition is a most attractive one. ARCHITECTS OF FATE; OR, STEPS TO SUCCESS AND POWER. By Orison Sweet Marden. Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin & Co. In this new book from the pen of the author of " Pushing to the Front," which was so enthusiastically received a year ago, are embodied a wonderfully interesting collection of anecdotes of men who have overcome great difficulties in the pursuit of the object of lofty ambitions. These brief stories are chosen from all periods of history and are woven together in a suggestive and easy, but rather striking, style, for the purpose of showing the author's theories that it is the man with one unwavering aim who cuts his way through opposition to the front, and that every germ of goodness will at last struggle into bloom and fruitage. The work is designed as a companion volume to " Pushing to the Front," and has a similar scope and purpose. Like that volume, it aims by actual illustration and practical advice to touch the aspirations of youth, to teach him that there is something nobler in an occupation than merely living-getting and money-making. "Manhood is everything," is the keynote to the volume, struck in the first chapter and sounding throughout the whole. He believes that the world is clamoring for a man, and he is almost carried away by his own enthusiasm in an attempt to force it upon his readers. It is a trifle difficult, however, to completely harmonize hi...