LESSONS IN LIFE A SERIES OF FAMILIAR ESSAYS BY TIMOTHY TITCOMB AUTHOR OF "LETTERS TO THE YOUNG" "GOLD-FOIL" ETC. NEW YORK 1885 Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1861, by CHARLES SCRIBNER In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York TROW'S PRINTING AND BOOKBINDING COMPANY, NEW YORK. 814 H212 1885 PREFACE. THE quick and cordial reception which greeted the author's "Letters to the Young," and his more recent series of essays entitled "Gold Foil," and the constant and substantial friendship which has been maintained by the public toward those productions, must stand as his apology for this third venture in a kindred field of effort. It should be -and probably is-unnecessary for the author to say that in this book, as in its predecessors, he has aimed to be neither brilliant nor profound. He has endeavored, simply, to treat in a familiar and attractive way a few of the more prominent questions which concern the life of every thoughtful man and woman. Indeed, he can hardly pretend to |