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The Complete Bachelor, by Walter Germain
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Title: The Complete Bachelor Manners for Men
Author: Walter Germain
Release Date: July 2, 2008 [EBook #25950]
Language: English
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The Complete Bachelor
Manners for Men
By the Author of the "As Seen by Him" Papers
With Index
[Illustration: Publisher's logo]
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 answered