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• Forewarned-Forearmed (New York: A. C. Armstrong and Son, ca. 1885), by John Thain Davidson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lectures to Young Men, by William Greenleaf Eliot (page images at MOA)
• Rovering to Success: A Book of Life-Sport for Young Men (London: H. Jenkins Ltd., 1922), by Robert Baden-Powell
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• The Way Lost and Found: A Book for the Young, Especially Young Men, by Joseph F. Tuttle (page images at MOA)
• The Young Man's Guide (tenth edition, 1836), by William A. Alcott (HTML at nimbus.org)
• Lectures to Young Men on Various Important Subjects (1853), by Henry Ward Beecher (searchable page images at Google)
• Lectures to Young Men on Various Important Subjects (New York: J. C. Derby, 1856), by Henry Ward Beecher (searchable page images at Google)
• Carta de Don Carlos de los Rios, XXII señor y VI. conde de Fernán-Núñez, a sus hijos. (Impr. P. Didot, 1791), by Carlos José Gutiérrez de los Ríos y Rohan Chabot Fernán-Núñez (page images at HathiTrust)
• Tom Brown at Oxford (Macmillan and Co., 1879), by Thomas Hughes (page images at HathiTrust)
• My son's manual : comprising a summary view of the studies, accomplishments, and principles of conduct, best suited for promoting respectability and success in life. (D. Appleton & Co., 1837), by J. Fagan and D. Appleton and Company (page images at HathiTrust)
• The golden censer : or, the duties of to-day and the hopes of the future (Union Pub. House, 1883), by John McGovern (page images at HathiTrust)
• Advice to a young gentleman on entering society (Lea & Blanchard, 1839) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Letters written by the Earl of Chesterfield to his son. (J.B. Lippincott & co., 1876), by Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield (page images at HathiTrust)
• [Christian pamphlets. Vol. 13]. (s.n., 1844), by William A. Stearns, Geo. F. Walker, Ebenezer Cutler, Truman M. Post, Zachary Eddy, J. C. Bodwell, Joshua W. Wellman, Elihu P. Marvin, H. D. Kitchel, J. T. Tucker, F. D. Huntington, Ezra S. Gannett, Elam Smalley, Charles Murray Nairne, Wendell Phillips, Thomas Starr King, William G. T. Shedd, Jonathan Blanchard, Joseph P. Thompson, Charles Sumner, and George Bush (page images at HathiTrust)
• Manhood's morning : a book to young men between fourteen and twenty-eight years of age (The Vir Pub. Co. ;, 1903), by Joseph Alfred Conwell (page images at HathiTrust)
• The works of Lord Chesterfield, including his letters to his son, &c. : to which is prefixed an original life of the author. (Harper & Brothers, 1838), by Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield and Philip Stanhope (page images at HathiTrust)
• The young man's affairs (Thomas Y. Crowell, 1909), by Charles Reynolds Brown (page images at HathiTrust)
• Counsels to young men on the formation of character, and the principles which lead to success and happiness in life : being addresses principally delivered at the anniversary commencements in Union College (Harper, 1856), by Eliphalet Nott (page images at HathiTrust)
• The young man's counsellor; or, Sketches and illustrations of the duties and dangers of young men. Designed to be a guide to success in this life, and to happiness in the life which is to come. (Carlton & Porter, 1850), by Daniel Wise (page images at HathiTrust)
• What is your name? (More "Yale talks"). (Yale University Press, 1925), by Charles Reynolds Brown (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The Young man's own book : a manual of politeness, intellectual improvement, and moral deportment, calculated to form the character on a solid basis and to insure respectability and success in life. (Desilver, Thomas, 1835), by McManus-Young Collection (Library of Congress) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The young man's counsellor : or, Sketches and illustrations of the duties and dangers of young men : designed to be a guide to success in this life, and to happiness in the life which is to come (Published by Poe & Hitchcock for the Methodist Episcopal Church, 1862), by Daniel Wise (page images at HathiTrust)
• Truths of to-day ; a young man's creed (New York : Eaton & Mains, 1909), by Albert Glenthorn Mackinnon (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lectures delivered... in Exeter hall, from Nov. 1855 to Feb. 1866. (Nisbet, 1856), by Young Men's Christian Association (England) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The letters of the Earl of Chesterfield to his son (Methuen, 1901), by Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, Annette Calthrop, Charles Strachey, and Philip Stanhope (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The young man and the world (D. Appleton, 1905), by Albert Jeremiah Beveridge (page images at HathiTrust)
• The three great temptations of young men : with several lectures addressed to business and professional men (Moore & Anderson, 1852), by Samuel Ware Fisher (page images at HathiTrust)
• Through boyhood to manhood : a plea for ideals (Longmans, Green, and Co., 1899), by Ennis Richmond (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The young man foursquare. (F. H. Revell Co., 1894), by James I. Vance (page images at HathiTrust)
• Is it possible to make the best of both worlds? a book for young men (Robert Carter & Brothers, 1854), by Thomas Binney (page images at HathiTrust)
• Banīn. (al-Maṭbaʻah al-Ahlīyah, 1911), by Paul Doumer and ʻAbd al-Ghanī ʻUraysī (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• A voice to youth : addressed to young men and young ladies (Grosh and Hutchinson, 1839), by John Mather Austin (page images at HathiTrust)
• Leon Battista Alberti e i libri della Famiglia. (S. Lapi, 1913), by Enrico Aubel (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Lettres de Lord Chesterfield a son fils (Jules Labitte, 1842), by Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield and Amédée Renée (page images at HathiTrust)
• Stones rolled away, and other addresses to young men (J. Pott, 1899), by Henry Drummond (page images at HathiTrust)
• What a young man ought to know (Vir ;, 1904), by Sylvanus Stall and Todd A. Herring Collection (Mississippi State University. Libraries) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• What a young husband ought to know (Vir, 1907), by Sylvanus Stall (page images at HathiTrust)
• Erfahrne Rathgeber. (Im der Schulbuchhandlung, 1819), by Joachim Heinrich Campe (page images at HathiTrust)
• Green mountain annals, a tale of truth. (Burnett & Smith, 1832), by G. V. H. Forbes (page images at HathiTrust)
• Letters to a young gentleman commencing his education : to which is subjoined a brief history of the United States (Sold by Howe & Spalding, S. Converse, printer, 1823), by Noah Webster (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lectures to young men, on the cultivation of the mind, the formation of character, and the conduct of life (J. Murphy ;, 1841), by George W. Burnap (page images at HathiTrust)
• The young man's friend (J. Munroe, 1838), by A. B. Muzzey (page images at HathiTrust)
• The duties of educated young men of the West : an address delivered to the candidates for the baccalaureate, July 20, 1842 (Cutler & Chamberlain, printers, 1842), by Charles White (page images at HathiTrust)
• Why be a Christian? Addresses to young men (Hodder and Stoughton, 1896), by Marcus Dods (page images at HathiTrust)
• Man to man (Hodder and Stoughton, 1913), by R. E. Welsh (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Della famiglia (Istituto editoriale italiano, 1910), by Leon Battista Alberti and Francesco De Sanctis (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Ungdomsliv : tanker og meninger ... fremsat for unge maend i Danmark fra 14-15 aars alderen og derover (O. Lohses Forlag, 1911), by Olfert Herman Ricard (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• A letter to a young man who has just entered college (Crosby & Nichols, 1849), by William P. Atkinson (page images at HathiTrust)
• A few thoughts for a young man : a lecture, delivered before the Boston Mercantile Library Association, on its 29th anniversary (Ticknor, Reed and Fields, 1850), by Horace Mann and Mass.) Mercantile Library Association (Boston (page images at HathiTrust)
• The young man's counsellor: or, Sketches and illustrations of the duties and dangers of young men (Carlton & Phillips, 1853), by Daniel Wise (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lectures to young men, on various important subjects, (J.P. Jewett ;, 1850), by Henry Ward Beecher (page images at HathiTrust)
• A few thoughts for a young man : a lecture, delivered before the Boston mercantile library association, on its 29th anniversary. (Ticknor, Reed and Fields, 1853), by Horace Mann (page images at HathiTrust)
• True manhood : its nature, foundation and development. A book for young men. (J. Nisbet and co., 1861), by William Landels (page images at HathiTrust)
• Original essays (Printed and published T.W. White, 1829), by Robert R. Collier and Francis Walker Gilmer (page images at HathiTrust)
• From fifteen to twenty-five; a book for young men (McDonald & Gill, 1885), by Jennie Fowler Willing (page images at HathiTrust)
• The country church and the making of manhood (Funk , 1907), by George Frederick Wells (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lectures to young men : on various important subjects (John P. Jewett, 1852), by Henry Ward Beecher (page images at HathiTrust)
• Golden censer (Union Pub. House, 1883), by John McGovern (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lecture to young men (Q. Dalrymple, 1842), by Edinburgh Young Men's Society (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lecture delivered before the Saint John Early Closing Association at the hall of the Mechanics' Institute (s.n.], 1859), by Joseph Howe (page images at HathiTrust)
• Our business boys (what eighty-three business men say) (D. Lothrop, 1884), by Francis E. Clark (page images at HathiTrust)
• Advice to young men, and (incidentally) to young women, in the middle and higher ranks of life in a series of letters, addressed to a youth, a bachelor, a lover, a husband, a citizen or a subject (J. Doyle, 1833), by William Cobbett (page images at HathiTrust)
• Guide du jeune homme recueil de prières suivi du petit office de la Sainte-Vierge, de l'office des morts, du petit office de l'ange gardien, du cérémonial de la réception des congréganistes [sic], des conseils du P. Olivaint, de cantiques, etc., etc. (Cadieux & Derome, 1882) (page images at HathiTrust)
• From fifteen to twenty-five a book for young men (International Book and Bible House, 1885), by Jennie Fowler Willing (page images at HathiTrust)
• Advice to young men, and (incidentally) to young women, in the middle and higher ranks of life in a series of letters addressed to a youth, a bachelor, a lover, a husband, a father, a citizen, or a subject (Griffin, Bohn, 1862), by William Cobbett (page images at HathiTrust)
• Advice to young men, and (incidentally) to young women, in the middle and higher ranks of life in a series of letters addressed to a youth, a bachelor, a lover, a husband, a father, a citizen, or a subject (Ward, Lock, 1830), by William Cobbett (page images at HathiTrust)
• Advice to young men, and (incidentally) to young women, in the middle and higher ranks of life in a series of letters addressed to a youth, a bachelor, a lover, a husband, a father, a citizen, or a subject (W. Cobbett, 1829), by William Cobbett (page images at HathiTrust)
• The age and its young men a lecture delivered before the Young Men's Christian Association of Halifax, on the opening of the session 1857-8 (s.n.], 1857), by John Hunter (page images at HathiTrust)
• Your mother's apron strings, and other talks to young men (W. Briggs, 1910), by Byron H. Stauffer (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Forewarned -forearmed (S.R. Briggs, 1886), by J. Thain Davidson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lessons from the life and character of Robert Shields being a hand-book for the guidance of youths generally, and especially for those about to enter upon commercial pursuits ; with selections from some of the best authors (Printed for the author by Hunter, Rose, 1880), by G. W. Grote (page images at HathiTrust)
• Life and conduct (W. Briggs, 1896), by J. Cameron Lees (page images at HathiTrust)
• Thoughts upon thought for young men, in three parts. (J. Snow, 1843), by John Griggs Hewlett (page images at HathiTrust)
• True men as we need them; a book of instruction for men in the world. (P.J. Kenedy, 1878), by Bernard O'Reilly (page images at HathiTrust)
• "Boy wanted" : a book of cheerful counsel (Forbes, 1906), by Nixon Waterman (page images at HathiTrust)
• Stepping stones to manhood : a book of inspiration for boys and young men (Harper & Brother Co., 1903), by William P. Pearce (page images at HathiTrust)
• Vtangě : Nuiruats hay eritasardnerun oronkʻ ankeghtsōrēn kě baghdzan april makʻrutʻeamb (Tpagrutʻiwn H. Mattʻēosean, 1910), by M. H. Gnachean (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Lectures to young men on various important subjects (M. H. Newman and co., 1851), by Henry Ward Beecher (page images at HathiTrust)
• The modern Chesterfield; a selection of Chesterfield's letters to his son (R.G. Badger, 1917), by Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield and Robert McMurdy (page images at HathiTrust)
• Young manhood : its relations to a worthy future : address delivered before the literary societies of Wilberforce University, commencement week, June 15th, 1880 ([Washington, D.C.?] : [The Author?], [1880?], 1880), by William E. Matthews, Charles Simpson Butcher, W. S. Scarborough, and Wilberforce University (page images at HathiTrust)
• The pocket rifle (Lothrop, Lee & Shepard, 1881), by J. T. Trowbridge (page images at HathiTrust)
• Clark's lectures to young men (A. Colby, 1861), by Rufus W. Clark and T. J. Proctor (page images at HathiTrust)
• Gift book for young men : or, Familiar letters on self-knowledge, self-education, female society, marriage, &c (Miller, Orton & Mulligan, 1856), by William A. Alcott and N.Y. Imprint Auburn (page images at HathiTrust)
• Letters from a nobleman to his son, during the period of his education at Eton and Oxford. (Printed for R. Phillips by Gillet, 1810) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Advice to young men on their duties and conduct in life (John E. Potter and Company, 1860), by T. S. Arthur (page images at HathiTrust)
• Earnest words to young men : in a series of discourses (Charleston, S.C. : Published by Walker and James ; Augusta, Geo : Sold by Joseph A. Carrie & Co., 1851., 1851), by E. P. Rogers, J. Durelle Boles, J. Durelle Boles Collection of Southern Imprints, Joseph A. Carrie & Co, and Walker & James (page images at HathiTrust)
• Baccalaureate address delivered August 12, 1833 : at the second annual commencement of the University of Alabama (Tuscaloosa : W.W. & F.W. M'Guire, Printers, 1833., 1833), by Alva Woods, J. Durelle Boles, J. Durelle Boles Collection of Southern Imprints, W.W. & F.W. M'Guire, and University of Alabama (page images at HathiTrust)
• Manliness for young men and their well-wishers (Presbyterian Board of Publication, 1864), by B. B. Hotchkin (page images at HathiTrust)
• Letters to the farm boy (Wallace Pub. Co., 1897), by Henry Wallace (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lectures to Young Men on their Moral Dangers and Duties. (B., 1846), by Abiel Abbot Livermore (page images at HathiTrust)
• A series of discourses addressed to young men on the principles and duties by which their conduct should be regulated. (Printed by H.B. Ten Eyck, 1831), by John C. Rudd, Henry B. Ten Eyck, and Office of the Gospel Messenger (page images at HathiTrust)
• My son's book (A.V. Blake, 1841) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Man to man (Jennings and Graham ;, 1907), by R. E. Welsh (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Dei doveri degli uomini : con due lettere inedite del Pellico ad Alessandro Manzoni (Scuola Tipo-Litografica "Figli della Provvidenza,", 1915), by Silvio Pellico (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Advice to young men : and (incidentally) to young women, in the middle and higher ranks of life. In a series of letters, addressed to a youth, a bachelor, a lover, a husband, a citizen or a subject (J. Doyle, 1831), by William Cobbett (page images at HathiTrust)
• Training the boy, by William A. McKeever (The Macmillan company, 1913), by William A. McKeever (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Young man's own book : a manual of politeness, intellectual improvement, and moral deportment : calculated to form the character on a solid basis, and to insure respectability and success in life ... (J. Locken, 1842) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Stepping stones to manhood : A book of inspiration for boys and young men, by William Peter Pearce (Gutenberg ebook)
• Young Men; In Business, by William Guest and J. D. Wells (Gutenberg ebook)
• Advice to a Young Man upon First Going to Oxford: In Ten Letters, From an Uncle to His Nephew, by Edward Berens (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Golden Censer: Or, the duties of to-day, the hopes of the future, by John McGovern (Gutenberg ebook)
• A Jolly by Josh (Gutenberg ebook)
• Times precious jewel, or, A dialogue between a young-man and death being a seasonable warning for youth to forsake their sins and to lead a religious life, lest death surprize them and repentance comes too late. ([London] : Printed for R. Kell, 1688) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Words of advice to young men delivered in two sermons at two conventions of young men, the one Decemb. 25, 1666, the other Decemb. 25, 1667 / by Thomas Vincent ... (London : Printed for Thomas Parkhurst, 1668), by Thomas Vincent (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Advice to the English youth relating to the present juncture of affairs. (London : Printed by George Larkin, l688) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• An exhortation of holye Basilius Magnus to hys younge kynsemen styrynge theym to the studie of humaine lernynge that they might thereby be the more apt to attayne to the knowlege of diuine literature / translated oute of Greke into Englyshe by Wyllyam Berker. ([S.l. : J Cawodde], M.D.LUJJ [1557]), by Saint Basil and William Barker (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Compassionate counsel to all young men especially I. London apprentices, II. students of divinity, physick, and law, III. the sons of magistrates and rich men / by Richard Baxter. (London : Printed by T.S. and are to be sold by B. Simmons and Jonath. Greenwood, 1681), by Richard Baxter (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Machiavil's advice to his son newly translated out of Italian into English verse by R. L., Esq. ([London : Printed for T. Burrel, 1681.]), by Niccolò Machiavelli and Roger L'Estrange (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Instructions to his son and to posterity (London : Printed for Beniamin Fisher, dwelling in Aldersgate-street at the Talbot, 1632), by Walter Raleigh (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Counsel for youth;: delivered in two sermons upon Psalm 119. vers 9. Preached by H.V. Rector of Alhallows-Honie-lane. (London : Printed by William Du-gard, in the Year M DC L. [1650]), by U. H. (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• A Friendly letter to all young men shewing the benefit of a religious and friendly reproof, conversation and admonition, and not only to live good lives themselves but to incourage others to do the same : with a letter to masters of families : to which is added a specimen of the rules and orders of the religious societies, as now practiced in the cities of London and Westminster. (London : Printed and are to be sold by W. Downing, 1699) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• A call to parents, and children. Or The great concern of parents; and the important duty of children. The first being the subject of the publick exercises, on the Lord's Day; the second delivered to a religious society of young men, the evening after; on April 24. 1737. / By John Barnard, M.A. Pastor of a church in Marblehead. ; [Three lines from Genesis] (Boston: : Printed by T. Fleet, for Daniel Henchman, over against the Brick Meeting House in Cornhill., 1737), by John Barnard (HTML at Evans TCP)
• Spiritual fortitude recommended to young men, in resisting and overcoming the Wicked One, by the word of God abiding in them. A sermon preach'd at a lecture to a society of young men, in the North-Parish of Danvers, December 15th 1757. : And publish'd at their request, with some enlargement. / By Peter Clark, M.A. Pastor of the First Church in Danvers. ; [Five lines of Scripture texts] (Boston: : Printed and sold by Edes & Gill, at their printing-office in Queen-Street,, 1758), by Peter Clark (HTML at Evans TCP)
• Early piety again inculcated from those famous words of Solomon, Eccles. XII. 1. Remember now thy Creator in the days of thy youth. In a sermon preached to a society of young men, in Boston, July 10. 1720. / By Benjamin Colman. (Boston: : Printed by S. Kneeland, for D. Henchman, and J. Edwards, and sold at their shops., 1720), by Benjamin Colman (HTML at Evans TCP)
• Cleansing our way in youth press'd, as of the highest importance: and observing the word of God recommended, as the only sufficient means. In a discourse upon Psal. CXIX. ver. 9. Wherewith shall a young man cleanse his way? By taking heed thereto according to thy word. / By Thomas Foxcroft, M.A. ; With a recommendatory preface, by the Reverend Mr. Wadsworth, Pastor of the First Church of Christ in Boston. (Boston: in N. E. : Printed by S. Kneeland, for S. Gerrish, and sold at his shop in Corn-Hill, near the brick meeting-house., 1719), by Thomas Foxcroft and Benjamin Wadsworth (HTML at Evans TCP)
• A letter of advice to a young gentleman leaving the university concerning his behaviour and conversation in the world. By R.L. ([New York] : Printed and sold by W. Bradford, printer to His Majesty, King William, at the Bible in New-York,, 1696), by R. Lingard and James Lane Lanesborough (HTML at Evans TCP)
• Two sermons to young men, preached in the Independent or Congregational Church, at Wappetaw, in Christ Church Parish. / By Daniel M'Calla, A.M. (Charleston [S.C.]: : Printed by Markland & M'Iver, no. 47, Bay., MDCCXCI. [1791]), by Daniel McCalla (HTML at Evans TCP)
• The Young gentleman's parental monitor; containing, I. Lord Chesterfield's advice to his son on men and manners; on the Principles of politeness; and on the art of acquiring a knowledge of the world, II. Marchioness de Lambert's Advice to her son. III. Lord Burghley's Ten precepts to his son. ([Hartford] : London: printed. Hartford, re-printed and sold by, Nathaniel Patten,, M.DCC.XCII. [1792]), by Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, Anne Thérèse de Marguenat de Courcelles Lambert, and William Cecil Burghley (HTML at Evans TCP)

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