21 NOVEMBER 1896, Page 14

Letters to a Bride. By Mrs. Armstrong. (F. V. White

and Co.) -Mrs. Armstrong includes in this volume " Letters to a D6bu- tante," so that she may be said to instruct her correspondents- the volume grew out of a column in a newspaper and the ques- tions asked and answered-in the whole duty of woman. We have no wish to criticise Mrs. Armstrong's maxims on etiquette. Viewed from outside, they seem, for the most part, sensible. We wish, indeed, that she could have frankly advised her young friend not to go to Lords' if " one does not understand the cricket." The people who crowd to the Oxford and Cambridge match because it is the "right thing" to go, are a terrible nuisance.