Manners And Rules Of Good Society Or Solecisms To Be Avoided

Excerpt from Manners and Rules of Good Society: Or Solecisms to Be Avoided Manners and tone OF good society having in the course of seven years reached the Thirteenth Edition, it was found advisable to revise it last year up to present date; but so many innovations in Etiquette having taken place within that time the greater part of the work was actually rewritten, and a considerable amount of information added thereto. 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.

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"[...]dinner-parties. A hostess should, in some instances, introduce ladies to each other in the drawing-room after dinner if the opportunity offers, and she considers it advisable to do so. As a rule, a host seldom introduces gentlemen to each other in the dining-room after dinner, as they address each other as a matter of course on such occasions. A hostess should introduce her principal guests to each other, at five-o'clock teas, garden-parties, small "at homes," etc.-that is to say, gentlemen to ladies-for the purpose of their taking the ladies to the tea-room. In this case also, the introduction should be made without previously consulting the lady; and a gentleman, knowing the reason of the introduction, should at once proffer the expected civility. At these gatherings a hostess should use her own discretion as to any general introductions she thinks proper to make, and should introduce[...]".