Excerpt from Mental and Social Culture: A Text Book for Schools and Academies What are the means by which my mental faculties may be best developed and strengthened? What is the most successful mode of study? How much, and when, and how? How shall I learn the principles of politeness, of personal accomplishment - of rendering myself agreeable? What are the errors into which I am most liable to fall? What the habits I should seek to avoid? These are questions that come home to every youth, but on which instruction has been greatly neglected. With no word of counsel in his whole course of instruo tion, the youth is expected to develop for himself mental Success and social excellence. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.