Excerpt from Etiquette, the American Code of Manners: A Study of the Usages, Laws, and Observances Which Govern Intercourse in the Best Circles of American Society Many books of etiquette are as useless as Ollen dorfl' 's French Grammar, which gives the scholar phrases which be can never use, as llave you the cotton nightcap oi' the shoemaker, instead oi? Telling him how to ask for his dinner, or teaching him how to form a sentence. The experts of society are, on the contrary, as certainly skilled in the laws which govern that great world as are the oilicers of the army in the regulation code. Oiiicers of the army know not alone the art oifi war, but they know the etiquette of the camp - the proper dress, the salute due to each oiiiccr. It is a study. No man can enter the army from the ranks of civil life, without committing some ilagrant solecism which, to a regularly-educated oillcer, would be impossible. 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.