NEW AND ENLARGED EDITION.
Social Etiquette of New York.
CONTENTS:
The Value of Etiquette; Introductions; Solicitations; Strangers in Towns; Débuts in Society; Visiting, and Visiting Cards for Ladies; Card and Visiting Customs for Gentlemen; Morning Receptions and Kettle-Drums; Giving and attending Parties, Balls, and Germans; Dinner-giving and Dining out; Breakfasts, Luncheons, and Suppers; Opera and Theatre Parties, Private Theatricals, and Musicales; Extended Visits; Customs and Costumes at Theatres, Concerts, and Operas (being two additional chapters written for this edition); Etiquette of Weddings (rewritten, for this edition, in accordance with the latest fashionable usage); Christenings and Birthdays; Marriage Anniversaries; New Year’s Day in New York; Funeral Customs and Seasons of Mourning.
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“This little volume contains numerous hints and suggestions, which are specially serviceable to strangers, and which even people to the manner born will find interesting and useful. Perhaps the best part of it is in what it does not say, the indefinable suggestion of good breeding and refinement which its well-written pages make.”—New York Evening Express.
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“A frank and sensible epitome of the customs of good society in the first city of America. It admits the existence and need of certain rules of social behavior, and then in a kindly and decorous manner points out how to conform to the best usage.”—Boston Commonwealth.
“A very sensible and—if we may say it of a book—well-bred volume. It gives the rules that are observed in the metropolis. These sometimes seem artificial, but they are usually founded on reason.”—Hartford Courant.
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