THE YOUNG MAN'S BOOK: or, Lectures for the Times

by Patton, Rev. William W

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Auburn, N.Y.:: Derby & Miller,, 1850. Full calf; in ink on front endpaper: `No. 131, School Dis [sic] Library No. 17 Otego [N.Y.]'; cover tips bumped & worn through to boards; contents lightly foxed but very readable; split rear joint repaired.. 2nd edn. ||| Rev. William Weston Patton (1821-89), later became second president of Howard University from 1874, where he also taught Natural Theology, & Evidences of Christianity. ||| This 1850 book, issued when Rev. Patton was 29 years old, speaks to young men as one who is their own age, rather than as an old man `who was neither identified with their position, nor prepared to sympathize with their views.'