Manners, Culture and Dress of the Best American Society; Including Social, Commercial and Legal Forms, Letter Writing, Invitations, &C., Also Valuable Suggestions on Self Culture and Home Training (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1894. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... taste may be upward or downward and is a process rather than an act. The upward formation is possible for all, and is by no means arduous if properly directed. By carrying out the suggestion given in the nest section one may in a comparatively short period of time attain unto a well furnished, well disciplined condition of mind which will justly excite admiration. "How did you acquire this knowledge? How came you to enjoy these books?" will be the questions of the one whose reading during the same period has been at random. What To Read. The vast array of books upon the shelves of the world's libraries is, to most persons, simply bewildering. A comparatively small number contain the crystallized thought and wisdom of the centuries. Says Thoreau: "Books that are books are all you want and there are but a half dozen in any thousand." Books of Travel are both pleasing and healthful. One scarcely need hold himself to the reading, the reading holds him. Butterworth's "Zig Zag Journeys in Europe," etc., cannot fail to interest the boys and girls. They will also enjoy Charles Carleton Coffin's "Our New Way Round the World." Thomas W. Knox's books, " Boy Travelers in Australasia," in Mexico, in South America, in Japan and China, in Siam and Java, in Ceylon and India, in Egypt and the Holy Land, "Through Africa," "On the Congo," etc., are exceedingly valuable, and many who are no longer "boys" will find them vastly entertaining. There are three readable and reliable volumes by Jules Verne on "Exploration of the World," Vol. I, "Famous Travels and Travelers." This covers the ground from the time of Herodotus, down to the 18th Century. Vol. II, "Great Navigators of the 18th Century." Vol. Ill, "Great Explorers of the 19th Century." Cassell & Co. have a series entitled, " T...