3 NOVEMBER 1838, Page 19

Books on "etiquette" are no doubt quizzabie enough ; and

following their instructions to the letter, will assuredly not convert a brute or a booby into a gentleman; but there are many very worthy pe; sons to whom the smattering of " silver-fork " pohit tiess to be picked up from them may be useful. A truly "gentle man or weman suddenly thrown among fashionable people, might appear to &advantage simply through a nervous apprehension of betraying their unfamiliarity with routine observances, an ac- quaintance with which constitutes the only pretension to the good breeding of many. The Gentleman's or the Lady's Pocket Book of Etiquette, by ARTHIPA FKEELING, may furnish a few useful hints, such as a chaperon would give to the neophyte on the occasion of his or her debut into "society.