1877. This collection of essays more or less refer to the conditions of success, in various departments of life. The leading idea is, that nothing really succeeds which is not based on reality. The writer has tried to illustrate a less familiar maxim, that truth is mighty and has prevailed. Contents: young men in history; ethics of popularity; grit; vital and mechanical; economy of invective; sale of souls; tricks of imagination; cheerfulness; mental and moral pauperism; genius of Dickens; shoddy; John A. Andrew.