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SUCCESS BOOKS By DR. ORISON SWETT MARDEN 12mo. Red Cloth. Decorative Cover. Illustrated. Price, $1.25 Dr. Marden's new volume of essays, "Stepping Stones," has the attractive qualities made familiar to a large audience of readers by his earlier books. At the same time it is entirely new in contents and most helpful and entertaining in character. It contains talks to young people of both sexes full of practical value, happy sketches of great characters, salient suggestions on deportment and conduct, and shrewd advice of all kinds touching everyday living. The author's wide knowledge of history and literature is used to give the essays atmosphere and quality, and no success book of the series is more engaging and wholesome than "Stepping Stones." Life Stories of Successful Men told by Themselves 12mo. Red Cloth. Decorative Cover. Illustrated. Price, $1.50 The author in this book has set down the story of successful men and women told by themselves, either in a series of interviews or by semi-autobiographical sketches. They make a most entertaining and inspiring series of life stories, full of incentive to ambitious youth. The Boston Transcript says: "To the young man who is determined to succeed in life, no matter in what direction his aim may lie, this volume will be a direct source of inspiration. It shows that the people 'who have got there' have invariably done so through pluck, perseverance, and principle, and not through 'pull' or social position. It emphasizes the fact that success depends wholly and entirely upon the person himself." A Book about Success 12mo. Red Cloth. Decorative Cover. Gilt Top. Illustrated. Price, $1.00 Dr. Marden has made for himself a wide reputation by his earlier volumes, "Architects of Fate" and "Pushing to the Front." But "Winning Out," while constructed along somewhat the same lines, is his first book designed especially for young readers. Its theme is "Character Building by Habit Forming." The Louisville Courier Journal says: "Pleasant teaching Dr. Marden's anecdotes make. They are of men and things that have actually been and happened. The moral is often an epigram, always apropos. Through the pages of the small volume pass a procession of figures that have aspired, struggled, and achieved. Such work is good for the world, good for the youth in it, and for more experienced and serious middle age." Lothrop Publishing Company, Boston |
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