HAND-BOOKS OF SOCIAL USAGES.
SOCIAL ETIQUETTE OF NEW YORK. Rewritten and enlarged. 18mo. Cloth, gilt, $1.00.
Special pains have been taken to make this work represent accurately existing customs in New York society. The subjects treated are of visiting and visiting-cards, giving and attending balls, receptions, dinners, etc., débuts, chaperons, weddings, opera and theatre parties, costumes and customs, addresses and signatures, and funeral customs, covering so far as practicable all social usages.
DON'T; or, Directions for avoiding Improprieties in Conduct and Common Errors of Speech. By Censor. Parchment-Paper Edition, square l8mo, 30 cents. Vest-Pocket Edition, cloth, flexible, gilt edges, red lines, 30 cents. Boudoir Edition (with a new chapter designed for young people), cloth, gilt, 30 cents. 130th thousand.
"Don't" deals with manners at the table, in the drawing-room, and in public, with taste in dress, with personal habits, with common mistakes in various situations in life, and with ordinary errors of speech.
WHAT TO DO. A Companion to "Don't." By Mrs. Oliver Bell Bunce. Small 18mo, cloth, gilt, uniform with Boudoir Edition of "Don't," 30 cents.
A dainty little book, containing helpful and practical explanations of social usages and rules. It tells the reader how to entertain and how to be entertained, and it sets forth the etiquette of engagements and marriages, introductions and calls.
"GOOD FORM" IN ENGLAND. By An American, resident in the United Kingdom. 12mo. Cloth, $1.50.
"The raison d'être of this book is to provide Americans—and especially those visiting England—with a concise, comprehensive, and comprehensible hand-book which will give them all necessary information respecting 'how things are' in England."—From the Preface.