The title of this book-"WORDS FOR THE WISE"-is too comprehensive to need explanation. May the lessons it teaches be "sufficient" as warnings, incentives and examples, to hundreds and thousands who read them. Words for the wise is a book that contains twelve stories. Each one, more beautiful than the other. The Stories included are as follows: THE POOR DEBTOR THE SUNDAY CHRISTIAN I KNEW HOW IT WOULD BE JACOB JONES; OR, THE MAN WHO COULDN'T GET ALONG IN THE WORLD STARTING A NEWSPAPER. AN EXPERIENCE OF MR. JONES THE WAY OF TRANSGRESSORS JUST GOING TO DO IT MAKING HASTE TO BE RICH LET HER POUT IT OUT A FINE, GENEROUS FELLOW TAKING IT FOR GRANTED LOVE AND LAW