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The Complete Bachelor

Manners for Men

By the Author of the
"As Seen by Him" Papers

With Index

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New York
D. Appleton and Company

1896




COPYRIGHT, 1896,
BY D. APPLETON AND COMPANY.




PREFACE.


I suppose a book of this character needs some excuse. The world is full
of volumes written on etiquette, and, in adding another to the number,
my plea for filling the want long felt may seem ridiculous. But I have
an excellent reason, and that is, that in all treatises of this
character I have found the bachelor sadly neglected.

For many years, while conducting the query or "agony department" in
Vogue, I received letters from all parts of the United States asking for
information on certain details of etiquette which seem to have been
overlooked by the compilers or writers of etiquette manuals. My
correspondents always wanted these questions answere