Published 11 November 1926. Cf. My second 25 years / E. Haldeman-Julius, p. 116.
Reprinted from Literary lapses / Stephen Leacock. London ; New York : J. Lane, 1911.
Contents
My financial career -- Boarding-house geometry -- The awful fate of Melpomenus Jones -- How to make a million dollars -- How to live to be 200 -- How to avoid getting married -- How to be a doctor -- The new food -- Men who have shaved me -- Hints to travelers -- A manual of education -- On collecting things -- Society chit-chat as it should be written -- Borrowing a match -- A lesson in fiction.