Cecil B. Hartley instructs the American gentleman of the mid-nineteenth century in conversation and politeness, table manners, conduct in the street and the ballroom, calling, dress, travel and behaviour in church. There are chapters on manly exercises such as riding and the hunt, and a list of one hundred hints for gentlemanly deportment.
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