"Manners Makyth Man." By the Author of "How to be
Happy though Married," (T. Fisher Unwin.)—This volume is constructed very much on the same lines as was the author's former volume. It is not quite as good reading. The stook of good stories is naturally somewhat lower than it was, and what have been already used up are naturally the best. Still, there are plenty of good things in it, and the same qualities of good-sense and right feeling which distin- guished the firet venture are no lees conspicuous in the second. Any one who will read these chapters carefully cannot fail to find much that will profit,—if reading ever dose profit. Their contents are, indeed, so varied as to defy analysis ; but they may be generally described as dealing with the minor ethics. We all know that a man who cannot be condemned for having broken any one of the Ten Commandments (taken, at least, in the literal sense), may yet be a great offender against social morality ; and it is such offenders that this book seeks to correct with kindly admonitions. "Manners," it will be understood, are not only the outside courtesy of demeanour, but, as the author puts it, " little morals," matters in which it is all the harder to be blameless, because the individual act often seems so insignificant.
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