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Title: Rollo in Society
A Guide for Youth
Author: George S. Chappell
Illustrator: William Hogarth, Jr.
Release Date: March 3, 2010 [EBook #31478]
Language: English
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ROLLO IN SOCIETY
A GUIDE FOR YOUTH
BY
GEORGE S. CHAPPELL
EMBELLISHED WITH CUTS BY
WM. HOGARTH, JR.
_A NEW EDITION, REVISED BY THE AUTHOR_
G. P. PUTNAM'S SONS
NEW YORK AND LONDON
The Knickerbocker Press
1922
Copyright, 1922
by
George S. Chappell
Made in the United States of America
[Illustration: ROLLO]
NOTICE TO PARENTS
Although this little book is primarily intended for the entertainment
of youthful readers, it is hoped by the writer that it may also aid in
accomplishing a number of useful purposes and may prove to be, in the
hands of parents, a guide for the modern child through the devious
paths which his or her feet must inevitably tread.
It is now many years since our little friend Rollo has appeared
between the covers of a book. Readers of an earlier generation will
recall that Rollo's environment in their day was that of the farm,
the woods, the fields, the brooks, and, at proper intervals and always
under the care of Jonas, the village. Inevitably time has wrought
changes with these simple elements of our social background and it was
to be expected that Rollo's family would, at some period, be swept by
the current of events into closer contact with the life of the great
cities which were growing up about them. Thus it is with no surprise
that parents should see the little fellow in situations far removed
from the woodshed and the hay-barn.
Rollo has much to learn in the City, much of cleverness, of
politeness, and of knowledge of seemly behaviour amid surroundings to
which he has been a stranger.
But it is the belief of the author that while Rollo may learn much, he
too may teach. He, too, brings with h
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