The ideal of a gentleman
Subtitle: or, A mirror for gentlefolks, a portrayal in literature from the earliest times
By: by A. Smythe-Palmer.
Publisher: Routledge; Dutton
Published: 1908
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 522
Subjects: Courtesy; Conduct of life
Table of contents: title: I. The historical idea of a gentleman.; title: II. Definition of a gentleman.; title: III. The inwardness or essential quality of a gentleman.; title: IV. The herald's gentleman.; title: V. Ancestry.; title: VI. Wealth and work.; title: VII. Manners and good breeding.; title: VII. Traits of gentlehood.; title: IX. Precepts of gentlehood.; title: X. The poets' gentleman.; title: XI. The gentleman exemplified.; title: XII. Gentlemen of other nations.; title: XIII. Ironical and abusive acceptation of "gentleman."; title: XIV. Conclusion.  Index.