Chapter IV: Part VII: Women and Marriage

I. To a young gentleman of intellectual tastes, who, without
having as yet any particular lady in view, had
expressed, in a general way, his determination to get
married 285

II. To a young gentleman who contemplated marriage 291

III. To the same 299

IV. To the same 306

V. To the same 312

VI. To a solitary student 322

VII. To a lady of high culture who found it difficult to associate
with persons of her own sex 325

VIII. To a lady of high culture 330

IX. To a young man of the middle class, well educated, who
complained that it was difficult for him to live agreeably
with his mother, a person of somewhat authoritative
disposition, but uneducated 333

PART VIII.

ARISTOCRACY AND DEMOCRACY.

I. To a young English nobleman 341

II. To an English democrat 358

PART IX.

SOCIETY AND SOLITUDE.

I. To a lady who doubted the reality of intellectual
friendships 374

II. To a young gentleman who lived much in fashionable society 379

III. To the same 384

IV. To the same 391

V. To a young gentleman who kept entirely out of company 397

VI. To a friend who kindly warned the author of the bad effects
of solitude 402

PART X.

INTELLECTUAL HYGIENICS.

I. To a young author whilst he was writing his first book 415

II. To a student in the first ardor of intellectual ambition 422

III. To an intellectual man who desired an outlet for his
energies 431

IV. To the friend of a man of high culture who produced nothing 441

V. To a student who felt hurried and driven 446

VI. To an ardent friend who took no rest 451

VII. To the same 456

VIII. To a friend (highly cultivated) who congratulated himself
on having entirely abandoned the habit of reading
newspapers 466

IX. To an author who appreciated contemporary literature 470

X. To an author who kept very irregular hours 476

PART XI.

TRADES AND PROFESSIONS.

I. To a young gentleman of ability and culture who had not
decided about his profession 488

II. To a young gentleman who had literary and artistic tastes,
but no profession 499

III. To a young gentleman who wished to devote himself to
literature as a profession 504

IV. To an energetic and successful cotton manufacturer 513

V. To a young Etonian who thought of becoming a cotton-spinner 522

PART XII.

SURROUNDINGS.

I. To a friend who often changed his place of residence 530

II. To a friend who maintained that surroundings were a matter
of indifference to a thoroughly occupied mind 539

III. To an artist who was fitting up a magnificent new studio 546

THE INTELLECTUAL LIFE.