How To Do It

How To Do It

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How To Do It.
By
Edward Everett Hale.

Contents.

Chapter I.
Introductory.--How We Met
Chapter II.
How To Talk
Chapter III.
Talk
Chapter IV.
How To Write
Chapter V.
How To Read. I.
Chapter VI.
How To Read. II.
Chapter VII.
How To Go Into Society
Chapter VIII.
How To Travel
Chapter IX.
Life At School

Chapter X.
Life In Vacation
Chapter XI.
Life Alone
Chapter XII.
Habits In Church
Chapter XIII.
Life With Children
Chapter XIV.
Life With Your Elders
Chapter XV.
Habits Of Reading
Chapter XVI.
Getting Ready

How To Do It.

Chapter I.
Introductory.--How We Met.

The papers which are here collected enter in some detail into the
success and failure of a large number of young people of my
acquaintance, who are here named as
Alice Faulconbridge, Bob Edmeston, Clara, Clem Waters, Edward
Holiday, Ellen Liston, Emma Fortinbras, Enoch Putnam, brother of
Horace, Esther, Fanchon, Fanny, cousin to Hatty Fielding Florence,
Frank, George Ferguson (Asaph Ferguson's _brother_), Hatty Fielding,
Herbert, Horace Putnam, Horace Felltham (_a very different person_),
Jane Smith, Jo Gresham, Laura Walter, Maud Ingletree, Oliver
Ferguson, brother to Asaph and George, Pauline, Rachel, Robert, Sarah
Clavers, Stephen, Sybil, Theodora, Tom Rising, Walter, William
Hackmatack, William Withers.
It may be observed that there are thirty-four of them. They make up a
very nice set, or would do so if they belonged together. But, in truth,

they live in many regions, not to say countries. None of them are too
bright or too stupid, only one of them is really selfish, all but one or
two are thoroughly sorry for their faults when they commit them, and
all of them who are good for anything think of themselves very little.
There are a few who are approved members of the Harry Wadsworth
Club. That means that they "look up and not down," they "look forward
and not back," they "look out and not in," and they "lend a hand."
These papers were first published, much as they are now collected, in
the magazine "Our Young Folks," and in that admirable weekly paper
"The Youth's Companion," which is held in grateful remembrance by a
generation now tottering off the stage, and welcomed, as I see, with
equal interest by the grandchildren as they totter on. From time to time,
therefore, as the different series have gone on, I have received pleasant
notes from other young people, whose acquaintance I have thus made
with real pleasure, who have asked more explanation as to the points
involved. I have thus been told that my friend, Mr. Henry Ward
Beecher, is not governed by all my rules for young people's
composition, and that Miss Throckmorton, the governess, does not
believe Archbishop Whately is infallible. I have once and again been
asked how I made the acquaintance of such a nice set of children. And I
can well believe that many of my young correspondents would in that
matter be glad to be as fortunate as I.
Perhaps, then, I shall do something to make the little book more
intelligible, and to connect its parts, if in this introduction I tell of the
one occasion when the dramatis personae met each other; and in order
to that, if I tell how they all met me.
First of all, then, my dear young friends, I began active life, as soon as I
had left college, as I can well wish all