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                          BASHFULNESS CURED:

                      Ease and Elegance of Manner
                                GAINED.

                            [Illustration]

                        "Manners Make the Man."

                        SETH CONLY, PUBLISHER,

                      NO. 524 SIXTH AVENUE, N. Y.




                          BASHFULNESS CURED:

                      EASE AND ELEGANCE OF MANNER
                            QUICKLY GAINED.

                               NEW YORK:
                        SETH CONLY, PUBLISHER,
                         NO. 524 SIXTH AVENUE.
                                 1872.




      Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1872, by
                              SETH CONLY.
     In the Office of the Librarian of Congress, Washington, D. C.




CONTENTS.


                                                                 PAGE.

 Bashfulness--Diffidence--Definition                                 5

 Natural Diffidence                                                  7

 Causes and Cure of Natural Diffidence                              20

 Bashfulness from lack of Education.--How to Overcome it            23

 Bashfulness from Ignorance of the Ways of Society.--The Cure       31

 Bashfulness from Ill-Dress.--The Cure                              36

 Bashfulness Caused by Ill-Health.--To Remove                       42

 How to acquire Elegance and Fluency of Expression--Ease and
    Polish of Manner--a Graceful, Ple