The Art of Worldly Wisdom #220405

The gem on the title, representing a votive offering to Hermes, the god of Worldly Wisdom, is from a fine paste in the British Museum of the best period of Greek glyptic art. I have to thank Mr. Cecil Smith of that Institution for kind advice in the selection. Let me conclude these prefatory words with a piece of advice as oracular as my original When reading this little book for the first time, read only fifty maxims and then stop for the day.