Excerpt from Habits and Men: With Remnants of Record Touching the Makers of Both

It is remarked by Mr. T. C. Grattan, in his "Jacqueline of Holland," that the "suitableness of raiment and the becomingness of manners are links in the chain of social life, which harmonize with and beautify the whole. There is infinitely more wisdom," he adds, "in submitting to than in spurning those necessary concomitants of civilization, which, being artificial throughout, require the cement of elegance and refinement to polish, if it cannot lighten, the chain." I offer this pinch of philosophy to those who like to be tempted by something didactic. I would not, for the world, however, have them believe, that I shall repeat the temptation, or follow the example, in my illustrations of "Habits and Men."

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