Excerpt from Youth's Golden Cycle, or Round the Globe in Sixty Chapters: Showing How to Get on in the World, With Hints on Success in Life; Examples of Successful Men; The Blessings of Loving Mothers, Careful Housewives, Clean, Cozy Homes; What and How to Eat and Drink: What to Read and How to Write; The Structure and Uses Of N ow the express object of this book is to counteract the evil influence of this vicious literature, and to furnish youth with reading that will be as exciting as any novel, and at the same time instructive, wholesome, manly, and fresh. Nor will it be of the goody-goody order, to which so much of our Sunday-school literature belongs. In this world of ours, the good boy does not get all the plums honesty is not always the best policy, from A merely worldly point OF view; and to teach that It is the best, is to impress youth with the demoralizing idea that they should be honest from policy, and from policy only. 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.