Never: A Handbook For The Uninitiated And Inexperienced Aspirants To Refined Society's Giddy Heights And Glittering Attainments
Author: first_name: Nathan Dane
last_name: Urner
Language: English
Year: 1883

An 1883 tongue-in-cheek spoof of manners and mannerisms of “society”.  ‘the “Open Sesame” to that jealously-guarded realm,—good society,—in which you aspire to circulate freely and shine with becoming luster….  And I, the author of this code of warnings, as truly say unto you, that a contemptuous disregard of the same will be likely to lead you into mortification and embarrassment, if not into being incontinently kicked out of doors….  It will be, in truth, a bosom companion in the happiest sens