How to Be a Man: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

How to Be a Man, credited to Harvey Newcomb, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

LibriVox recording of How to Be a Man by Harvey Newcomb. Read in English by LibriVox Volunteers. I wish to see the youth of my country come forward upon the stage of life, models of excellence, with characters formed for the times in which they are to act. How much influence my book may have, in securing such a result, I cannot tell; but my design in writing it has been, to contribute something toward forming the character of some of those who are to be our future electors, legislators, governors, judges, ministers, lawyers, and physicians, — after the best model; and, from the kind reception of my former attempts to benefit American youth, I trust they will give a candid hearing to the few hints contained in the following pages. It is intended for boys, — or, if you please, for young gentlemen, — in early youth, from eight or ten to fifteen or sixteen years of age. It covers substantially the same ground occupied by a work for girls issued simultaneously with it; and some of the chapters are identical in the two books, while others are entirely different, and some partially so. It is the hope of the Author, that every one who reads it, will strive to be a man in the highest sense of the term. (Summary by Preface)

Recording facts

• Recording title: How to Be a Man
• Author credits: Harvey Newcomb
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 30
• Listed recording duration: 5:18:07

Catalogue topics

• youth
• childhood
• brothers
• boys
• courage
• conduct of life
• altruism
• young men

Opening tracks: first 24 of 30

1. 01 - On Childhood and Youth — 7:55
2. 02 - Nature and Objects of Education — 7:29
3. 03 - Piety, as the Spring of Action and Regulator of the Soul — 9:57
4. 04 - Filial Piety — 18:05
5. 05 - Treatment of Brothers and Sisters and Others in the Family — 10:43
6. 06 - Behavior at School — 8:02
7. 07 - Behavior at Table — 6:29
8. 08 - Behavior at Family Worship — 4:15
9. 09 - Private Prayer — 7:10
10. 10 - Keeping the Sabbath — 33:44
11. 11 - Habits — 24:16
12. 12 - Education of the Body — 13:17
13. 13 - On Useful Labor — 14:31
14. 14 - Education of the Heart — 34:33
15. 15 - Education of the Mind — 12:46
16. 16 - Reading — 11:05
17. 17 - Writing — 5:32
18. 18 - Indolence — 5:13
19. 19 - On Doing One Thing at a Time — 3:09
20. 20 - On Finishing What is Begun — 3:00
21. 21 - Choice of Society and Formation of Friendships — 4:45
22. 22 - Bad Company and Mischievousnes — 6:47
23. 23 - On Amusements — 17:00
24. 24 - Government of the Tongue — 12:10

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