Contents: Preface; How to Be Happy Through Rich or Poor; Rocks You are Likely to Bump on; Rovering. 'To sum up in a few words, success does not consist so much in gaining money and power as in gaining happiness. Many young men drift along with the rest of the crowd according to chance, and thus never reach happiness. From being passive be active. Don't drift. Take your own line. Paddle your own canoe. Only mind the rocks! Avoid them by cultivating other qualities." Powell explains the 'rocks" you are likely to bump on (Through herd temptation) Horses, betting and looking on at false sports. Wine, and other forms of self indulgence. Women, dangers of a wrong attitude and blessing of the right one. Extremists in politics, irreligion, etc. Powell elaborates on the antidotes to the 'rocks" (through individual effort) active hobbies, earning money, self-control, character, chivalry, health of mind and body, service for your fellow-men and for God. 'If you aim for it by practicing these safeguards, instead of being stranded among the rocks, you will win success and happiness." These and dozens of other inspiring maxims make this extraordinary book a useful companion for Scouts and Scout Leaders.

    The book's chapters include Advance and Use Our Liberties, Alternative to the Treaty, The Proof of Success, Four Historic Years, Collapse of the Terror, Partition Act's Failure, Why Britain Sought Irish Peace, Distinctive Culture, Building up Ireland, and Freedom within Grasp. Also included are notes by General Michael Collins, 1922.

    IntroductionThe bronze ageThe middle ageThe city-stateColonial expansion & the rise of tyranny Sparta & the Peloponnesian league Athens & the triumph of democracy The civilization of archaic Greece The Persian wars The Delian leagueThe Greek world after PlataeaThe Athenian empire The Peloponnesian warThe Periclean age Sparta & Thebes Sicily & Magna GraeciaThe rise of Macedon Alexander the great Greece during Alexander's absenceGreek civilization in the fourth centuryThe new era The third centuryThe social & economic conditions of the Hellenistic ageEgypt & Asia under the successorsThe art & literature of the Hellenistic ageThe encroachment of RomeSelect BibliographyIndex