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    The American Gentleman's Guide to Politeness and Fashion or, Familiar Letters to his Nephews
    The American Gentleman's Guide to Politeness and Fashion or, Familiar Letters to his Nephews
    The American Gentleman's Guide to Politeness and Fashion or, Familiar Letters to his Nephews
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    The American Gentleman's Guide to Politeness and Fashion or, Familiar Letters to his Nephews

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    Release dateNov 27, 2013
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      The American Gentleman's Guide to Politeness and Fashion or, Familiar Letters to his Nephews - Henry Lunettes

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      Title: The American Gentleman's Guide to Politeness and Fashion

      or, Familiar Letters to his Nephews

      Author: Henry Lunettes

      Release Date: February 28, 2012 [EBook #39005]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE AMERICAN GENTLEMAN'S GUIDE ***

      Produced by Julia Miller, Linda Hamilton, and the Online

      Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This

      file was produced from images generously made available

      by The Internet Archive/Canadian Libraries)

      THE

      AMERICAN GENTLEMAN'S

      GUIDE TO POLITENESS

      AND

      FASHION.

      THE

      AMERICAN GENTLEMAN'S

      GUIDE TO POLITENESS

      AND

      FASHION;

      OR,

      FAMILIAR LETTERS TO HIS NEPHEWS.

      BY HENRY LUNETTES.

      The good old name of Gentleman.

      Tennyson.

      People sometimes complain of writers who talk of I, I. * * * * When I speak to you of myself, I am speaking to you of yourself, also. Is it possible that you do not feel that it is so? Victor Hugo.

      NEW EDITION, CAREFULLY REVISED BY THE AUTHOR.

      PHILADELPHIA:

      J. B. LIPPINCOTT & CO.

      1864.

      Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1863, by

      J. B. LIPPINCOTT & CO.,

      in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.

      TO

      HIS YOUNG COUNTRYMEN,

      THIS UNPRETENDING VOLUME, IS, WITH AFFECTIONATE PRIDE,

      INSCRIBED BY

      THE AUTHOR.

      INTRODUCTION.

      "I lang ha'e thought, my youthful friends,

      A something to have sent you,

      Tho' it may serve no other end

      Than just a kind memento:

      But how the subject-theme may gang

      Let time and chance determine;

      Perhaps it may turn out a sang,

      Perhaps turn out a sermon."

      TABLE OF CONTENTS

      LETTER I.

      DRESS.

      LETTER II.

      DRESS—(Continued.)

      STORIES AND ANECDOTES ILLUSTRATIVE OF DRESS.

      LETTER III

      MANNER.

      LETTER IV.

      MANNER—(Continued.)

      ANECDOTES AND TALES, ILLUSTRATIVE OF MANNER.

      LETTER V.

      MANNER IN DETAIL.

      SKETCHES ILLUSTRATIVE OF MANNERS.

      LETTER VI.

      MANNER—(Continued.)

      RULES TO BE OBSERVED IN MAKING MORNING VISITS, AND IN SOCIETY GENERALLY.

      ANECDOTES, SKETCHES, ETC.

      LETTER VII.

      HEALTH.

      THE TOILET, AS CONNECTED WITH HEALTH.

      ILLUSTRATIVE SKETCHES AND ANECDOTES.

      LETTER VIII.

      LETTER-WRITING.

      ILLUSTRATIONS.

      LETTER IX.

      ACCOMPLISHMENTS.

      ILLUSTRATIVE ANECDOTES AND SKETCHES.

      LETTER X.

      HABIT.

      ILLUSTRATIONS.

      LETTER XI.

      MENTAL AND MORAL EDUCATION.

      LETTER XII.

      CHOICE OF COMPANIONS AND FRIENDS.—SELECTION OF A PURSUIT IN LIFE.—COURTSHIP.—MARRIAGE.—HOUSEKEEPING.—PECUNIARY MATTERS.

      ILLUSTRATIVE SKETCHES, ETC.

      THE

      AMERICAN GENTLEMAN'S GUIDE.

      LETTER I.

      DRESS.

      My dear young Friends:—

      As you are already, to some extent, acquainted with the design and scope of the Letters I propose to address to you, there is no necessity for an elaborate prelude at the commencement of the series.

      We will, with your permission, devote our attention first to Dress—to the external man—and advance, in accordance with the true rules of Art, gradually, towards more important subjects.

      Whatever may be the abstract opinions individually entertained respecting the taste and regard for comfort evinced in the costume now, with trifling variations, almost universally adopted by men in all civilized lands, few will dispute the practical utility of conforming to the general requisitions of Fashion.

      Happily for the gratification of fancy, however, the all-potent goddess, arbitrary and imperative as are her laws, permits, at least to some extent, such variations from her general standard as personal convenience, physical peculiarities, or varying circumstances may require.

      But a due regard for these and similar considerations by no means involves the exhibition of eccentricity, which I hold to be inconsistent with good taste, whether displayed in dress or manner.

      A violation of the established rules of Convention cannot easily be defended, except when required by our obligations to the more strenuous requirements of duty. Usually, however, departures from conventional propriety evince simply an ill-regulated character. The Laws of Convention, like all wise laws, are instituted to promote the greatest good of the greatest number. They constitute a Code of Politeness and Propriety, adapted to the promotion of social convenience, varying somewhat with local circumstances, it may be, but everywhere substantially the same. It is common to talk of the eccentricities of genius, as though they are essential concomitants of genius itself. Nothing can be more unfounded and pernicious than this impression. The eccentricities that sometimes characterize the intellectually gifted, are but so many humiliating proofs of the imperfection of human nature, even when exhibiting its highest attributes. Hence the affectation of such peculiarities simply subjects one to ridicule, and, in many instances, to the contempt of sensible people.

      Some years since, when Byron

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