Riley’s poetry is popular because it goes right to the feelings of the people. He could not have written as he does, but for the schooling of that wandering life, which gave him an insight into the struggle for existence among the great unnumbered multitude of his fellow-men. He learned in his travels and journeys, in his hard experience as a strolling sign-painter and patent-medicine peddler the freemasonry of poverty. His poems are natural; they are those of a man who feels as he writes. As Thoreau painted nature in the woods, and streams, and lakes, so Riley depicts the incidents of everyday life, and brightens each familiar lineament with that touch that makes all the world akin.
SUCCESS BOOKS
By DR. ORISON SWETT MARDEN
STEPPING STONES
12mo. Red Cloth. Decorative Cover. Illustrated. Price, $1.25
Dr. Marden’s new volume of essays, “Stepping Stones,” has the attractive qualities made familiar to a large audience of readers by his earlier books. At the same time it is entirely new in contents and most helpful and entertaining in character. It contains talks to young people of both sexes full of practical value, happy sketches of great characters, salient suggestions on deportment and conduct, and shrewd advice of all kinds touching everyday living. The author’s wide knowledge of history and literature is used to give the essays atmosphere and quality, and no success book of the series is more engaging and wholesome than “Stepping Stones.”
HOW THEY SUCCEEDED
Life Stories of Successful Men told by Themselves