E-text prepared by Graeme Mackreth and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team (http://www.pgdp.net) from page images generously made available by Internet Archive (https://archive.org) Note: Images of the original pages are available through Internet Archive. See https://archive.org/details/egregiousenglish00mcnerich THE EGREGIOUS ENGLISH by ANGUS McNEILL [Illustration] New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons London: Grant Richards 1903 Copyright, 1902, by Angus McNeill Published, January, 1903 The Knickerbocker Press, New York CONTENTS CHAPTER PAGE I.--Apollo 1 II.--The Sportsman 13 III.--The Man of Business 20 IV.--The Journalist 28 V.--The Employed Person 37 VI.--Chiffon 47 VII.--The Soldier 59 VIII.--The Navy 71 IX.--The Churches 79 X.--The Politician 90 XI.--Poets 103 XII.--Fiction 113 XIII.--Suburbanism 124 XIV.--The Man-about-Town 137 XV.--Drink 144 XVI.--Food 153 XVII.--Law and Order 163 XVIII.--Education 171 XIX.--Recreation 183 XX.--Stock Exchange 192 XXI.--The Beloved 199 The Egregious English CHAPTER I APOLLO