Excerpt from Etiquette: Social Ethics, and the Courtesies of Society Something higher, too, has been attempted in these essays, than merely the explanation of conventional usages; they are designed' to show how much domestic happiness depends on a due regard to the little politene sses of life, - how much real misery is occasioned by their neglect. 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.