Excerpt from Social Etiquette of New York IN response to numerous and constant ap plications from all parts of the country for information regarding social forms and usages in New York, the author has prepared a series of articles, in which Degreesspecial pains have been taken to make them represent faithfully and accurately existing customs in New York so clety, in distinction from the many manuals on the subject that have simply reproduced the codes of Paris and London. These foreign exemplars may have sufllced for all practi cal purposes years ago, when both town and country were in a more rudimental stage of development; but they are now clearly useless, when society has acquired a certain definite character, and New York is a law unto itself inso cial E tiq UE tte. 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.