If the psychologists are right, then the big books of etiquette are ... Etiquetteer Fishback’s rules aim to correct the bad manners which come from the fact that urban dwellers, for the most ...

But the book sold and sold, both in the U.S. and abroad ... Almost 200 years on, “Domestic Manners of the Americans” still jumps off the page at the reader. To choose an example not quite ...