From: The Dial, Vol. II, No. III. (Jan. 1842)
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Published: E. P. Peabody 1842 Boston
THIS book is somewhat out of the common course of American books on manners, morals, and religion. But we think it had better have been named the Cultivated Gentleman, than to have assumed the title of The Ideal Man. It is a manual of good manners, of pure aims, and of honorable and praiseworthy conduct, and especially is opposed to that negligence of form which runs so to excess with us. But it does not recommend or tolerate anything hollow or unmeaning. The good manners must signify good taste, good morals, good learning, and sincere religion. It bears marks of being written by a foreigner, in its style as well as matter, though he writes in the character of an American.
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