THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY 686330

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ASTOR, LENOX AND TILDEN FOUNDATIONS 1915

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PRINTED BY A. J, VẬLPV,

RKD LION COURT, FLEET STREET.

PREFACE.

WHEN a young man of birth and fortune takes leave of the University, and sets out in the career of life, he should ask himself these questions:Have I ambition? or taste, atid talent? or a love of military reputation"?or the patience and goodhumour of a well-meaning country magistrate? or am I fit for nothing but to be a patron of prizefighters, a saunterer, or a dandy?

To those who feel that they possess ambition, the following pages are addressed: their object is to place before the view of aspiring and inexperienced minds, the road to public honours in a nation like Great Britain. They are supposed to have but just shut up their classics and ethics, and to have their minds imbued with all those disinterested and exalted notions, which arise from an academic education.