What is Best Society? (cover title)

"It is such an easy matter to acquire personality and charm when you have a complete knowledge of good manners."

Stapled wraps, 8vo, (12)p. (4)p prospectus/coupom laid in. Very Good+ with light toning and soil to wraps. Promotional material for The Book of Good Manners, by W. C. Green. Remarkably blunt derision of the reader's presumed social deficits, devoid of etiquette in its promises to teach the same. But suppose that's the point—"Even your dearest friend will not tell you that people consider your taste in dress hideous; that you have obnoxious odors... that the crude arrangement of your home is pathetic..."  A one-stop-shop for demolishing you and your family's self-esteem.

"Ask Your Child—If it wants to grow up with common children of the street; if it wants to enter life handicapped and barred from associating with people of culture; if it wants to suffer humiliation and shame due to its ignorance of refinement? THE BOOK OF GOOD MANNERS opens at the very day the child is old enough to hold a spoon..."