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Title: Manners and Rules of Good Society
Or Solecisms to be Avoided

Author: Anonymous

Release Date: September 13, 2010 [EBook #33716]

Language: English

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MANNERS AND RULES

OF

GOOD SOCIETY

_OR SOLECISMS TO BE AVOIDED_

BY A MEMBER
OF THE ARISTOCRACY

THIRTY-EIGHTH EDITION

[Illustration: Decoration]

LONDON
FREDERICK WARNE AND CO.
AND NEW YORK

1916
(_All rights reserved_)

_Printed in Great Britain_

PREFACE

"MANNERS AND RULES OF GOOD SOCIETY" contains all the information
comprised in the original work, "Manners and Tone of Good Society," but
with considerable additions. In a volume of this nature it is necessary
to make constant revisions, and this is periodically done to keep it up
to date, that it may be depended upon as being not only the most
reliable, but also the _newest book of etiquette_.

A comparison of the number of chapters and their subjects with those of
the early editions would best demonstrate how the work has grown, not
merely in bulk, but in importance also. This extension has allowed many
subjects to be more exhaustively treated than heretofore, and it now
includes every rule and point that could possibly be comprehended in its
title.

The work throughout its many editions has commended itself to the
attention of thousands of readers, and it is hoped the present edition
will be received by society in general with the marked success of its
predecessors.

CONTENTS

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