THE

AMERICAN GENTLEMAN'S

GUIDE TO POLITENESS

AND

FASHION;

OR,

FAMILIAR LETTERS TO HIS NEPHEWS, CONTAINING RULES
OF ETIQUETTE, DIRECTIONS FOR THE FORMATION OF
CJARACTER, ETC., ETC., ILLUSTRATED BY SKETCHES
DRAWN FROM LIFE, OF THE MEN AND MANNERS
OF OUR TIMES,

People sometimes complain of writers who talk of "I, I.”— • • • When I speak to you
myself, I am speaking to you of yourself, aleo. Is it possible that you do not feel that it is so!

VICTOR HUGO.

NEW YORK:

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