A very graceful and judicious compendium of the laws of etiquette, taking its name from the Bazar weekly, which has become an established authority with the ladies of America upon all matters of taste and refinement.—N. Y. Evening Post.
It is, without question, the very best and most thorough work on the subject which has ever been presented to the public.—Brooklyn Daily Times.
It would be a good thing if at least one copy of this book were in every household of the United States, in order that all—especially the youth of both sexes—might read, mark, learn, and inwardly digest its wise instruction, pleasantly conveyed in a scholarly manner which eschews pedantry.—Philadelphia Press.
Abounds in sensible suggestions for keeping one’s person in proper order, and for doing fitly and to one’s own satisfaction the thousand social duties that make up so large a part of social and domestic life.—Correspondence of Cincinnati Chronicle.
Full of good and sound common-sense, and its suggestions will prove valuable in many a social quandary.—Portland Transcript.
A little work embodying a multitude of useful hints and suggestions regarding the proper care of the person and the formation of refined habits and manners. The subject is treated with good sense and good taste, and is relieved from tedium by an abundance of entertaining anecdotes and historical incident. The author is thoroughly acquainted with the laws of hygiene, and wisely inculcates them while specifying the rules based upon them which regulate the civilities and ceremonies of social life.—Evening Post, Chicago.
* * * It would be easy to quote a hundred curt, sharp sentences, full of truth and force, and touching points of behavior and personal habitude that concern us all.—Springfield Republican.
By far the best book of the kind of which we have any knowledge.—Chicago Journal.
An eminently sensible book.—Liberal Christian.