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A Manual for the use of those who desire to Write and Speak Correctly. 18mo. Cloth, $1.00.
A Pronouncing Manual, containing about Four Thousand Five Hundred Words, including a considerable number of the Names of Foreign Authors, Artists, etc., that are often mispronounced. Revised and enlarged. 18mo. Cloth, $1.25.
A Manual devoted to Brief Discussions of the Right and the Wrong Use of Words, and to some Other Matters of Interest to those who would Speak and Write with Propriety. 18mo. Cloth, $1.25.
A Little Book for the Guidance of such Men and Boys as would Appear to Advantage in the Society of Persons of the Better Sort. 18mo. Cloth, $1.00.
ELOCUTION AND ELOCUTIONISTS. With Preface by Harrison Grey Fiske; Introduction by Edgar S. Werner; Prologue by James A. Waldron.
OF WILLIAM COBBETT. Carefully Revised and Annotated. 18mo. Cloth, $1.00,
New York: D. APPLETON & CO., 72 Fifth Avenue.
FOR THE GUIDANCE OF SUCH MEN AND BOYS AS WOULD APPEAR TO ADVANTAGE IN THE SOCIETY OF PERSONS OF THE BETTER SORT
AUTHOR OF THE ORTHOËPIST, THE VERBALIST, ETC.
Virtue itself offends when coupled with forbidding manners.--MIDDLETON.
Well dressed, well bred, well carriaged, Is ticket good enough to pass us readily Through every door.--COWPER.
A good manner is the best thing in the world, either to get one a good name or to supply the want of it.--ANONYMOUS.
COPYRIGHT, 1894, BY D. APPLETON AND COMPANY.
To select well among old things is almost equal to inventing new ones.--TRUBLET.
To be welcome in the society of persons of the better sort, who are always persons of culture and refinement, we must ourselves be persons of culture and refinement, _i.e._, we must know and practise the usages that obtain in refined society, and have some acquaintance with letters and art.
In this world it is only like that seeks like. Those that have nothing in common, whose culture and breeding are unlike, whose thoughts are on different things, never seek the society of one another. What points of sympathy are there between the town gallant and the country spark, between the city belle and the dairymaid? If one would be received in the better social circles, one’s culture must be of the kind found there, and, above all, one’s manners must be marked by the observance of those usages that are to refined social commerce what the oil is to the engine.