Excerpt from A Young Man's Problems Here I am my own man With the most of life be fore me. My past is gone forever. The present and the future pain me With deep concern. I want my name to have a place With those of others Who have made life a success._ An active brain, a fairly vigorous body, and good name constitute the most of my capital. The ques tion What and how to do rests heavily on me. But it is not manly to complain of one's lot; so I Will face things bravely, take them as they come, and do the best I know and can. So Paul Essen soliloquized the day he was twenty one, as he thought of his future career. To this time he had been looking With strong yearnings for years, and the hope of its freedom had cheered him in many a duty. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.