CONSIDERABLE alterations have been made in this edition. The principal are these: many of the longer epistles have been omitted, and several short, piquant letters introduced into the vacant place created by the omission of each long one. Some preceptive letters, of rather formidable extent, have been left out on account of their having been superseded by the publication of matter substantially the same, in other parts of the series of books of which this volume is one; as, for example, in the "YOUNG MAN'S OWN BOOK," "SUNDAY Book," &c. A large number of letters have been inserted from works which have appeared since the first edition of this was