Excerpt from Good Manners for All Occasions: A Practical Manual
A book is the better for a preface, just as a house is the finer for a porch. People sometimes tell me they omit reading an author's preface. How can they be so rude? They might as well omit a bow when introduced to a new acquaintance. I make a point of reading the prefaces written by other people, and, Gentle Reader, I am sure you will read mine.
This book is a plain-spoken treatise or talk on the ways in vogue in good society, the society to which you and I belong. It is a friendly book, and it will fit into any hour of leisure a busy woman may happen to have. A busy man may find something in it for him, too, if he take the trouble to look. Like little Jack Homer, you may put in your thumb and pull out a plum anywhere in this particular pie.
Some books are offended if you do not approach them with grave looks, and give them your close attention.
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