The Habits of Good Society

The Habits of Good Society: A Handbook of Etiquette for Ladies and Gentlemen, with thoughts, hints and anecdotes concerning social observances; nice points of taste and good manners; and the art of making one’s-self agreeable, The whole interspersed with humorous illustrations of social predicaments; remarks on the history and changes of fashion and the differences of English and continental etiquette.

‘We are taught manners before religion; our nurses and our parents preach their lay sermons upon them before they open for us the Bible and the Catechism; our dominies flog into us Greek verbs and English behavour with the same cane…Yet with all this and much more deference which we show now to manners in general, now to the arbitrary laws of etiquette which seem to have no object but exclusiveness…’

This 1859 edition is in good condition with gold edging, spine slightly bumped. https://hungrytraveller.com.au/3d-flip-book/the-habits-of-good-society/