The Practical Affairs of Life. By Robert Lennox Ludlow. (Winchester
Publishing Company. 5p.)—Mr. Ludlow is anxious to make his readers understand that this volume contains, not . quotations from others, but his own carefully considered counsels on various matters of conduct, ke. These counsels extend over a very wide range of affairs. They deal with morals, with property, with marriage, with married life, in fact, de omnibus rebus et quibusdam aliis. To deal with the whole adequately would require the knowledge of the moralist, the financier, the lawyer, and we know not who else besides. We should not advise a reader to trust this new counsellor implicitly; there are points on which we distinctly differ from him. But he is worth consult- ing ; he gives his advice with brevity and force; he always knows what he means, and how to say it.
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