12 FEBRUARY 1927, Page 20

On the writer's last visit to New York he was

shown;

through the glass partition of a publiiher's office, the young lady- who was responsible for the most successful book on etiquette which has yet been published. This child petionius was scarcely out other teens. In Mrs. Massey Lyon's new book on Etiquette (Cassell, 21sIthere is no precocity, hOwever, but on the contrary both authority and experience. There must he a big sale for books of this sort, for they are con-

tinually appearing. • • * *.