Austin, John Mather. Golden Steps to Respectability, Usefulness, and Happiness : being a series of Lectures to Youth of Both Sexes, on Character, Principles, Associates, Amusements, Religion, and Marriage. New York and Auburn: Miller, Orton & Mulligan, 1856. Seventeenth Thousand. [11737]
Dark green publisher's cloth, binding is worn and soiled, ends & corners frayed, gilt titles faint on spine, 7 1/4 x 5 inches, lacks both front and one back free end papers. Frontispiece engraving of a young man and woman climbing the steps Integrity, Virtue, Usefulness, Truth, Honor, leading to Fame. 243 pages plus publisher's catalogue; foxing, smudging, dark in some places. Fair. Hardcover.
John Mather Austin (1805-1880), was a prominent Universalist minister, the pastor of a congregation in Auburn, N. Y.
Six Lectures: The Value of a Good Education; The Principles and Purposes of Life; Selection of Associates; The Habits and Amusements; The Religious Sentiments; Marriage.
