The Complete Bachelor

Manners for Men

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

With Index

New York
D. Appleton and Company
1896

Copyright, 1896,
BY D. APPLETON AND COMPANY.

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PREFACE.

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

For many years, while conducting the query or "agony department" inVogue, I received letters from all parts of the United States asking forinformation on certain details of etiquette which seem to have beenoverlooked by the compilers or writers of etiquette manuals. Mycorrespondents always wanted these questions answered from the New Yorkstandpoint. All this I have endeavored to do in this volume. I havedevoted a chapter to sports. In this I have made no attempt to [Pg vi]give therules of the various pastimes therein enumerated. I have simply jotteddown some points which I hope may be of use to the outsider.

In the chapter on dancing I have taken the Patriarchs' Ball in New Yorkas my standard of subscription entertainments of this character. I havealso written about cotillons as they are conducted in New York. I haveendeavored to be plain and lucid. I only desired that this book shouldbe a help to my reader in any dilemma of social import, and if I shallhave proved of assistance, I shall feel that my mission has beenaccomplished, and that I have reached the goal of my ambition.

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CONTENTS.

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