Contents: if you can talk well; put beauty into your life; enjoying what others own; personality as a success asset; how to be a social success; miracle of tact; I had a friend; ambition; education by reading; discrimination in reading; reading a spur to ambition; self-improvement habit, a great asset; raising of values; self-improvement through public speaking; what a good appearance will do; self-reliance; mental friends and foes.