Excerpt from Polite Life and Etiquette, or What Is Right and the Social Arts We contend that it is in no way deroga tory to a new country like our own, if on some minor points of etiquette we presume to differ from older countries. We find it necessary to fit our garments to the climate, our manners to our fortunes and our habits and customs to the demands of the age in which we live. We have, however, many faults and inelegancies of which foreigners justly accuse us, which we can easily correct by a little careful study of this book, which is given to the people after much thought based on common sense and every-day life.ii preface. The design of this work is to furnish ample and satisfactory information on all those subjects that are embraced under the word Etiquette, to the end that the readers may have before them the best thoughts on the topics considered. The classification of the work is such, that by the aid of the Table of Contents, the place 'where any topic or sub-topic is treated can be found almost instantaneously. In addition to the subject matter properly belonging to Etiquette, there is given much kin dred information collated from the most reliable sources. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.